Year: 2005

In the comments of the previous post we were talking about how static cling happens more in the winter. But has anyone noticed that you get more boogers in the winter? WINTER BOOGERS!

Is it just me or does static cling seem so 80s?

Definition: Dorkingdom noun The land of the highest dorks.

Definition: Dorkiful adj Akin to beautiful, but in a dorky endearing way.

The website for the book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” an Amazon Top 10 book in 2005. This site was designed using PHP and MySQL, so the author could easily make updates to the site without knowing html. Readers can…

The strategies of the “Deal or No Deal” producers used to make the game show more dramatic: 1) Dramatic Stage Host Howie Mandel stands in a quiet back room with 26 sealed suitcases numbered 1 to 26. One of those…

Walking behind someone who is smoking is like walking behind someone who is urinating in public. Who wants to walk behind a trail of smoke? There are many similarities between smoking in public and peeing in public: ‚Ä¢ Both ends…

In a recent email, the Baseball Hall of Fame called me a “friend.” So here’s an email I sent to them: ============ I like how you called me “friend.” So friends, like, let each other into their home for free,…

This is for the designers out there: Walking on the right side of the street is like being a part of right justified type. Walking on the left side of the street is like being a part of left justified…

Just a few weeks ago, I discovered that “dumpster diving” has a bad connotation. It’s associated with people who pilfer garbage to find financial information. I always thought of dumpster diving as a way of finding art materials. I’m gonna…

To increase your ranking in search engines, use use words like “the secret to…” or “Advice on…” People love to search these terms. In fact here’s the results from the Overture Keyword Selector Tool 90,817 advice 66,008 secrets 43,352 classified…

People like to order french fries because it’s an easy no-brainer snack food. You can easily pick up a french fry and eat it. You don’t have to look at it or set anything back down. Eating a salad with…

If you have a car or a large price item, and decide to sell it, you should ask for payment in two-dollar bills only. Imagine that, a lifetime supply of two dollar bills. Anytime you pay for something, you can…

One of my friends is a designing his first webpage, and he’s not a designer. He says he wants “some neat little animated buttons here and there just to get some movement on the page.” And I said, “oh dear.”…

Because it starts with an “A” it starts off the list of bookstores. Top of the list baby! I realized this while looking at a site I designed last year for Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.

It’s quite surprising that nobody has made an ical calendar that lists all the fun and goofy holidays, like World Hello Day on November 21. Hmmm, i’ll add that to my to do list.

Going out for all-you-can-eat sushi with 12 people will take some time for the chefs to keep up with your order, but it’s lots of fun to order whatever sushi you wish without worrying about price. Sushi Para II in…

I have a 30% employee discount at the Tribune Tower store during Monday, November 28 through Saturday, December 3. Does anybody want anything?

When riding in an elevator going up by yourself, stand exactly in the middle of the car. By doing so, you will be able to better imagine the feeling of being lifted up. For some reason, this just doesn’t work…

There this site at http://thesurrealist.co.uk/joke where you can make a joke about anything. All you do is put in the topic and some keywords related to it, and pow! It’ll give you a bunch of jokes–although they are so bad!…

I often get asked by people where is a good place to host their site. I’ll tell them not to go with olm.net (i’ve had major problems with them), or nomonthly (their basic plans do not include MySQL). Generally $10-$12…

From the olympic site: “Neve”: she is a gentle, kind and elegant snowball; “Gliz”: he is a lively, playful ice cube. They are the two symbolic characters of the XX Olympic Winter Games. They complement each other and personify the…

There’s this site called Cassette Jam ’05 where there are over 170 different images of old cassette tape designs. Here’s three of the tapes on that site that I have used.

I recently showed someone my list of Amateur Sport Event Calendars in Chicago and he replied, “laser tag is not a sport!” But I would say the formula for sport is: physical activity + competition = sport

SmarterChild is an instant message bot that you can ask questions. You can also IM the word “poll” to SmarterChild and it will ask you a question. Then it will give you the percentage of what others responded. Here’s a…

It gets so windy in our windy city of Chicago, that we have signs like this one at the brown line Western stop.

While walking to work, do you ever spot someone up ahead of you and make it your goal to pass that person before you get to work?

This was rather funny. Walgreens is selling cubbie bears wearing white sox shirts. Do you see the irony?

Many towns have a Main Street, but not Chicago.

Too bad the guy on that site doesn’t get lost. How to Find Objects You Lost

Ha the “soccer bowl” that’s a funny phrase… “I want to win the SOCCER BOWL!!!” And the soccer ball at the end of “sting” makes it look like it’s spelled as “Chicago Stingo”