Laws of Parenting

Anybody who has kids will appreciate this (thanks Susan for this):

1. The later you stay up, the earlier your child will wake up the next morning.

2. For a child to become clean, something else must become dirty.

3. Toys multiply to fill any space available.

4. The longer it takes you to make a meal, the less your child will like it.

5. If the shoe fits, it’s expensive.

6. The surest way to get something done is to tell a child not to do it.

7. The gooier the food, the more likely it is to end up on the carpet.

8. Backing the car out of the driveway causes your child to have to go to the bathroom.

Any others from parents out there?

Disneyland’s Secret Boozy Club

Just above the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland is a semi-secret private club that is the only place in the entire park that you can drink. But good luck getting in. Link via BB.

The World’s Fastest Train

Cruising at a cool 220mph, this looks like a fun ride. Too bad the ride is only 20 miles long (<teacher>which would take how long, class?</teacher>).

Never Miss A TV Show

All you need is Bittorrent and RSS. It’s like a Tivo for folks who are poor but have broadband.

How To Find MP3s Using Google

Great Firefox Tips/Hacks

If you’re not using Firefox, you’re really missing out. Here’s a great K5 run-down that lists some great hacks and plugins you can install on it to make it work exactly how you want it to (there were several plugins on there that I have never heard of, but now have installed). The coolest thing I hadn’t seen before are these performance-tuned builds of Mozilla products that take advantage of the extra instructions on modern processors. I’ve installed one of them, and it works pretty slick.

And I don’t care how fancy IE 7.0 is supposed to be, I doubt I’ll install it (actually, I will, but only for testing purposes).

New “For Sale” Site

Anybody ever used Pricetag? It basically is a fixed-price listing site and free to list on. Anybody had good luck with this? I wonder how they make money.

Amazing Game Movies

Granted, most of these were done with emulators and other tricks that enabled this type of speed, but it’s still amazing to see the speed at which people complete old-school NES games.

Oddball — Yet Fascinating — Research

How somebody thought of this as a research topic, I have no idea, but this is a fascinating 75-page read on the topic of Candy Bar Wrapper design.

The Most Expensive Album Never Made

Expenses have roughly totalled $13-million for a Guns N’ Roses album that was never made.