Daily Tidbits
- Peter Jennings Dies at 67
“Jennings’ Death Ushers in Uncertain Era.” I think that headline is so very fitting. After losing Dan Rather and now Peter Jennings, there really isn’t anyone anchoring the evening news. And I mean really anchoring. They need someone with a presence and I don’t know if there’s anyone on TV right now that has it. [...]
- An Official Grown Up!
That’s right, boys and girls, I am officially a card-carrying member of the health-insured adults of America!
- The Stigma with Online Dating
I came across this interesting article this afternoon on online dating statistics and how many people actually admit to meeting their significant other online. 47% say they tell the truth and nothing but the truth, 41% say they tell some the truth, and some the partial truth, 13% completely fib the whole thing. I think [...]
- Snopes.com’s Most Outrageous Requests
Snopes.com just published their most outrageous requests. Some of them are pretty funny. Especially this one: I’ve heard that it is impossible to take a lightbulb out of your mouth once one puts it in, without either breaking the bulb or dislocating the jaw. Do you know if this is true? I’m counting on you [...]
- CTRL-ALT-DEL Inventor Ridicules Gates
This made me chuckle. “I may have invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, but Bill Gates made it famous.”
- Wal-Mart and the Good Ol’ Red, White, and Blue
After seeing Wal-Mart in the news off and on for the past couple months, I am slowly but surely becoming a non-believer in the “Always Low Prices” enterprise. Even more so after reading this article after Bob Hart, a regional manager for the local Wal-Marts, expressed his displeasure with a journalist’s opinion. If you read [...]
- An Interesting Article About Type Used in Movies
Typecasting: The Use and Misuse of Period Typography in Movies. That guy really knows his stuff.
- AOL Cred
A noble attempt by AOL at creating a website that’s XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Table-less, mind you. Although it validates with close to 600 errors, it’s still an admirable attempt at taking a behemoth site and making the code look pretty.
- Users Still Unfamiliar with New Technology
There was an interesting study done on Internet users recently which asked participants how familiar they were with some of the latest technology such as Podcasting and RSS feeds. Here’s a link to the PDF results. Three percent of the people polled never heard of spam and 9% had no idea what adware was. And [...]
- Paramount Pictures to Make Movie about 9/11
Well, perhaps not exactly about 9/11, but about the rescue of 2 Port Authority officers from the World Trade Center rubble. Currently they have Oliver Stone as the director and Nicholas Cage to star. I know it’s almost been 5 years, but it’s still very… I dunno, weird. Read the article.
