Man will lie awake all night

August 19, 2013
Before a marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you've said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland

Website 4 the day:
Search a section of Mars:
http://www.google.com/mars//
 

Stole a calendar

August 18, 2013
A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.

Website 4 the Day:
Great courses from great universities:
https://www.edx.org/
 

Fill out a form

August 16, 2013
Why do you fill out a form by filling it in?
-- Steven Wright

Website 4 the day:
100 year old 8th grade test:
http://tiny.cc/8thgradetest
 

What procrastination gives you

August 16, 2013
Procrastination gives you something to look forward to.
-- Joan Konner

Website 4 the day:
Open source text-to-speech:
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
 

Don't like their sound

August 15, 2013
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

Website 4 the day:
Make a movie poster:
http://bighugelabs.com/poster.php
 

A library is external

August 14, 2013
A library is an external human memory.
-- Frederick G. Kilgour

Website 4 the day:
Multiplatform open-source programming language:
http://haxe.org/
 

A life form with six or more legs

August 14, 2013
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Robert A. Heinlein

Website 4 the day:
Learn web or smartphone programming for $25 to $49 per month:
http://teamtreehouse.com
 

Who wants to hear?

August 12, 2013
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? .
--- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

Website 4 the day:
Ethiopian multiplication:
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Multiplication
 

Scouts' knot-tying class

August 11, 2013
Our Boy Scouts' knot-tying class went off without a hitch.

Website 4 the Day:
High speed photos and explanations:
http://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2
 

We went to Atari

August 10, 2013
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
-- Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

Website 4 the day:
Feynman videos:
http://www.richard-feynman.net/videos.htm
 

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