- I love The Octonauts, although I do sometimes worry it’s giving my son an unrealistic perception of the coffee consumption rate of the average undersea exploration headquarters polar bear captain. – via @gatordavid
- How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia – via distilled
- Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky (aside from following me, of course).
- There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI – via @rking_618
- This is your annual reminder that the album Sugar & Booze by SNL alum Ana Gasteyer is chock full of fantastic holiday music and you can stream it on Alexa.
- In part he cried because he knew what lay ahead. The families of the dead, the people who were shot, had now been in war, like he had. They would struggle like he and so many of his combat buddies had.
- I joined Mastodon seven years ago — a full decade after I started using Twitter, by the way — and still have absolutely no idea how it works. (Note that I’ve spent the last thirty years building web and mobile applications.)
- This kid’s reaction to Lamar Jackson‘s scramble last weekend is the best (via Ravens). – via @randderuiter
Posts tagged “traffic”
#FridayFive: Los Angeles Streets
Driving in Los Angeles
Los Angeles Monorail
Why can’t we have nice things?
Why don’t they make traffic cones from some sort of easily-pulverizable corn resin type material? I see a half dozen of those things on my drive to work every day, usually squeezed into a median barrier or precariously close to the shoulder. If they burst into little pieces — like the special effects shatter glass they use on movie sets — wouldn’t they be much less dangerous to drivers? Boom. There’s your million dollar idea for the day. Someone get working on that.
#FridayFive: Favorite Things about Driving in Los Angeles
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- General Stuff
- If you’re taking any medicine for any reason at all, you should read this article.
- Abusive relationships like this one just suck.
- Perspective
- Wired has a great article all about craigslist, if you like that site.
- Whole Foods has crazy expensive groceries, but terrific thoughts on healthcare reform.
- I had no idea that the word avocado comes from the Nahuatl word ãhuacatl (“testicle”), a reference to the shape of the fruit.
- Think that we’re not living in the future yet? Read The bright side of sitting in traffic: Crowdsourcing road congestion data from Google. Or take a look at how you could use your iPhone as a restaurant HUD. And start saving up for that jetpack.
- Here’s your cute kitten fix for the day.
- You can convey quite a bit with just three frames. (The ones from Jaws, The Goonies, and Jurassic Park are my favorites.)
- Gator Stuff
- Bill Belichick presents a stone face to the world, but succeeds in part because he is open to change. For the past two years, the Patriots have run an offense that is all but identical to Urban Meyer‘s Florida spread.
- Stopping Tim Tebow isn’t easy, but it is possible.
- Kirk Herbstreit on Tebow
- Boom! – must-watch YouTube vid of big Gator hits
- “Tim Tebow’s proficiency as a passer and rusher have placed him among the all-time greats after only two seasons as a starter,” according to statistical analysis done by Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel.
- Techie Stuff
- Oh, hey! I didn’t realize you could create animated images with Photoshop!
- Apple did a very smart thing when it priced Snow Leopard below the cost of a typical family visit to the movies.
- Do you use any of the out-of-touch computer terms on this list at your office?
2024-01-15: Dead links in this post have been removed and/or updated.
Woman Bills DOT for Wasted Gas
Mrs. Greenburg said in an interview that the delay was doubly unpleasant for her Maine coon cat, Sammy, who howled through the entire experience in a pet carrier in the back seat.
Citizen Smith
My friends Bob and Gretchen were in town last night for the X-Files premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. I met them afterwards and we went to Citizen Smith for a late dinner. (It took me just under an hour to get to the restaurant from my house, even though it’s only about eight