Posts tagged “Tim Tebow”

It Ought to Be Easier

It Ought to Be Easier

It’s really hard for me to wrap my head around the idea that Tim might not make it in the NFL. It seems absurd to me. When my alarm rang at six this morning, there was a text waiting for me that read, “Heard Tebow was cut from NPR before ESPN.” My first thought was

  • News & Notes
    • Couple married 72 years dies holding hands — from kottke.org
    • Jason Kottke also published an epic round-up of all the best stories, comments, obituaries, collections, videos, etc. about Steve Jobs.
    • Top Ten Misused English Words — from listverse.com
    • 4 Personal Finance Principles That Would Make Your Grandfather Proud — from The Art of Manliness
    • Stellar.io is just awesome. Seriously. Trust me on this one. (Let me know if you want an invitation.)
  • Apps
    • Amazing Breaker is a fun (free) breakout game.
    • Can anyone explain the difference between the Starbucks app and the Starbucks Card Mobile app?
  • Tech
    • If you have an iPhone running iOS5, open the iTunes app on your phone. Click “More” in the lower right-hand corner. Choose “Tones”. You’ll see that there is now a new section of Star Wars ringtones. (I can’t understand how this wasn’t front page news.)
    • See also: How to make custom tones for your iPhone — from macworld.com
    • If I’m going to get a MacBook Air, then it looks like I’m also going to get a new Thunderbolt display. — via Shawn Blanc
    • Incredible macro photographs taken with iPhone 4S camera — from campl.us
    • Shit Siri Says Is, indeed, quite funny. (On Sunday I was upset when Siri couldn’t connect to the Internet and was unable to tell me the distance from Key West to Cuba. When I said, “Blow me!” in frustration, she said, “David! The language!”)
  • Sports
    • Quote of the day: “…it’s clear that marketing people underestimated [Tim Tebow’s] intangibles and popularity.” — Tebow’s Eye Black
  • Fun Stuff
    • Nick Holmes posts cute and funny things.
    • How Potholes FormI’ve always wondered exactly how potholes are formed. Now I know.
    • Need some cool wrapping paper? Try rapping paper.
    • Thinking about the Monty Hall Paradox always makes my head hurt.
    • Do you feel like you’re too old to start getting into shape? Listen to Charles Eugster, who is a champion weightlifter: “I was already rowing six times a week, and there didn’t seem any harm in pushing myself a bit harder to rebuild my muscles. So in my late-80s I joined a bodybuilding club.”
    • I, for one, am very happy to get to go to Mars. You can go, too.
  • Sports
    • I love this photograph of a guy painting the hash marks on Florida Field.
    • Agree +1 with this tweet from @drsaturday: “I like Tim Tebow but I don’t think I can convey in 140 characters the visceral hate I have for this commercial.”
  • Parenting
  • One thing this country has always enjoyed is a good drink. Whether it was rum on the Atlantic, bourbon at the races or that Bloody Mary at Sunday Brunch, alcohol is the American Drink.
  • DexterBoom! Dexter returns at the end of September. (Don’t watch the trailer if you didn’t see season 4 yet!)
  • Don’t Eff With Fudgie the Whale, Lindsay!
  • I cannot wait to see Bad Universe (featuring BadAstronomy).
  • Mister Gunther makes horoscopes fun!
  • Betty Goes Reno: A visit to the glamorous divorce ranches of the Mad Men era.
  • He hasn’t taken a single snap in a real game yet, but Tim Tebow is already leading the league in jersey sales. (Nike has some cool Tebow sneakers, too.)
  • Do you think you can identify who voices each character on The Simpsons?
  • I didn’t know that there are ATMs in Antarctica.
  • Being President of the United States is probably the loneliest job in the world.
2024-06-07: Broken links in this post have been removed and/or updated.

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