What is the most commonly searched absurd word?
* absurd
* bonkers
* crazy
* cuckoo
* foolish
* freaky
* goofy
* idiotic
* insane
* loony
* odd
* pyscho
* silly
* screwy
* outrageous
* wacky
* wild
(you can vote by leaving a comment, you psycho)

Yesterday in Chicago it snowed a bit. I'd much rather have cold and snow than 40s and rain. One of the many nice things about winter is not having to always have an umbrella on hand.

You always get to have your state first in the list of pull-down menu on the web.

In addition to tickets for complaining about cold weather, I'm gonna make up some tickets for public punctuation/spelling/grammar errors. We can sit here and complain all we want about how public signs have silly errors (which is always fun), but let's actually do something about it by notifying those who made the signs that they screwed up. The tickets could be either handed to the store owner, or just taped onto the offending sign.

Now I just need a list of places in Chicago that have spelling errors, punctuation errors, and bad grammar.

It comes in quite HANDY for measuring things.

-matt maldre

Whenever a cashier asks for your zip code, it would be fun to give them a zip code for some barren unpopulated place in Alaska.

So now we start the 99701 Zip Code Campaign. Give every cashier the zipe code of "99701." It's the zip code for Coldfoot, Alaska. Population: 13. It would be fun if everyone started doing it. Remember: 99701.

You hit the up button for an elevator. You wait. Elevator dings. You stand by the door, and then accidentally get in the way of people exiting the elevator. Oops!

Yeah, most of the time you don't let this occur. You always try to stand clear of the doors before they open. But it does slip by and happen where you get in the way.

It sure would be handy if elevators had some sort of indicator if people were inside. Cuz then you have a reminder to stand clear of the doors when they open.

It would be alot easier to surf blogs, if everyone had a consistent category structure. That way, I can read all the posts about a particular topic I'm interested in. Many people post about a wide variety of things, some that i'm interested in, alot that i'm not.

Yeah, this shifts the focus from personalization to information. But I'm sure I would still read some people's blogs, cuz I like who they are. But I would also like to just read posts abouts say... the chicago art scene and not have to sift through all the nonsense.

I suggest that we use the dmoz or yahoo directory for a starter on how to structure the category system.

would your hair become sparkly clean?

Awww, Library. Such a good old friend, Library. Always there for you. Always so willing to give you knowledge. But Library doesn't brag or show off its knowledge. Library just sits there and lets you come in. You ask Library a question, Library has an answer. Sometimes you have to dig into Library's heart, but you will find your answer. And on the way to discovering the answer, Library will give you so many other awesome interesting roads to take.

To achieve a wider range of sound, look at the fine print on the packaging to see what the frequency range is (the Hz). The first number is the bass (the lower the better). The second number is the high frequencies (the higher the better).

Remember the 20/20 rule. Try to buy a pair where the first number is 20hz or below. And the second number should be 20,000 or higher (sometimes it's called 20khz).

If the packaging has no information about Hz, put it down and slowly walk away.

A few life lessons I learned while working at an ice cream shop, the Yogurt Oasis, during college summers:

1)	Don't ever put gummy bears into the ice cream, they get very cold and hard; therefore, very difficult to chew.
2)	When sticking your head under the frozen yogurt machine and filling your mouth with frozen yogurt, only do this in short quick spurts. If you fill up your mouth with too much ice cream at once, you'll get the world's worst ice cream headache.
3)	Don't EVER get strawberry dressing toppings at an ice cream shop. You don't know what has been in there
4)	Ice Cream is the food of the masses. A wide range of people come in to get ice cream. Some nice and polite. Some downright naiiiiiisty. Many are ho-hum. Some goofy. Some rooty. Some tooty. Some rocky. Some vanilla. Some double-mocca chocolate.
5)	Don't leave a plastic spoon in the cup when you are making a Hurricane (generic version of Blizzard)
6)	Pray for rain all the time. It gives Yogurt Oasis workers more time to goof around.
7)	Always fill customers' cup/cone higher than the person you're working with. It makes you look better.
8)	Whenever there is cookie dough in 2 gallon tubs available, eat as much as humanly possible and tell the boss, "geez people really like to order cookie dough blizzards."
9)	Use the vanilla frozen yogurt when throwing in a frozen-yogurt-throwing-war.
10)	Customers don't come in as often when you have the "Closed" sign up.

My twin brother, Erik wrote a bunch of these. (He worked there for three summers, i worked there for two summers)

When saying letters our mouth, tongue, teeth and lips do different things. I'm amazed how much we use the roof of our mouth when talking (14 of the 26 letters).

And it makes sense why we call a, e, i, o, u "vowels". They come purely from the throat.

(7) dghjlnt: tip of tongue touch roof of mouth
(3) csz: tip of tongue close to roof of mouth
(3) kqx: back of tongue touch roof of mouth
(1) r: back of tongue close to roof of mouth
(4) bmpy: lipsmack
(2) fv: teeth touch lip
(6) aeiou: no tongue
(1) w: etc

This makes me wonder if other languages use other parts of the mouth more or less.

U.S. Mint to unveil new nickel designs. It's interesting they chose to release two different designs. Perhaps to go with the phrase "rubbing two nickels together." What does that phrase mean?

Who likes hard candy? It sucks. (a bit of a pun there, cuz you have to suck on hard candy to eat it)