Emily and I love the Discovery Channel “Boom De Yada” commercial. And so does XKCD:
And so does Stephen Hawking.
Damn, the commercial even has a Wikipedia page. That’s impressive.
Over the weekend I installed the Zemanta plugin for WordPress. I read about the Zemanta “content suggestion engine” on Weblog Tools Collection and TechCrunch.
I really like Zemanta. Oringinally it was made as a browser plugin, and I believe it was released recently to work with some common blogging engines, like WordPress, Movable Type, and Blogger.
What [...]
Since I moved to Lawrence, I’d been looking for a new bank. Well, not new. I’m keeping my old bank account, but they don’t have branches in Kansas, so I wanted something local. A place to deposit my paycheck and other odds and ends. After a little advice, I decided on Capital [...]
Georgia Sports Blog on Georgia Tech’s announcement that their first home football game this fall will be a “white out” against Mississippi State:
Imagine the shock of the Tech fans as they enter Bobby Dodd Stadium only to find:
-30,000 Tech Fans
-15,000 Mississippi State fans
-10,000 Empty Seats
-5,000 Cow Bells
And those engineers think Georgia Bulldawg’s are obnoxious, just [...]
Firefox 3 was released this morning! Get excited, because version 3 is amazing. I’ve been using the betas since January, and I love it.
Firefox 3 has amazingly low memory usage and loads javascript so fast. Want that in non-tech terms? Firefox 3 runs really fast and loads websites like Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Remember the [...]
Forbes Magazine says Hendrick Motorsports is the most valuable team in Nascar, worth $335 million. They also ranked race cars, and the #24 DuPont Chevrolet (Jeff Gordon - $92 million), #88 AMP Energy/National Guard Chevrolet (Dale Earnhardt, Jr - $79 million), and #48 Lowe’s Chevrolet (Jimmie Johnson - $58 million), all three from Hendrick Motorsports, [...]
The University of Georgia’s independent, student-run newspaper is threatening students. Today they ran an open letter to parents saying they would again post mug shots on the front page of students charged with alcohol related violations before classes start. Maybe a good response to this would be a student boycott of the Red and Black.