Jesse Helms, former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, died today, the Fourth of July. He joins John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe, who also died on the Fourth. In one of my favorite presidential stories, John Adams showed his contempt for Jefferson in his final words, “Jefferson survives.” Adams did not know, however, that [...]
Pretty cool: All-Pro New England Patriots wide receiver Randy Moss has purchased half of a Nascar team. The team’s single entry, a Craftsman Truck Series Chevrolet Silverado, will change to #81, Moss’ jersey number. The purchased team, Morgan-Dollar Motorsports, will now be called Randy Moss Motorsports.
Something I’ve always wanted was an RSS feed of my friends’ birthdays in Facebook. You see, I don’t login to Facebook everyday, but I do open Google Reader (my RSS reader of choice) everyday. And the only way (until now) to see who’s birthday is today is to login.
But now, problem solved!
The Facebook application is [...]
A teaser trailer for the new James Bond film, A Quantum of Solace, has been released. Ah, Casino Royale was great, and I think this one is going to be even better. Movie comes out on November 7 in the US.
H/t to Brett.
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 [...]
The Art of Manliness has been marked as spam by Digg.
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 [...]
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 [...]