Year: 2005

It’s 100 days until 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy All-time Winter Olympic medals 1. Norway 263 2. United States 193 3. Austria 162 4. Finland 142 5. Germany 125 (1928-36, 52-64, 92) 6. Sweden 108 7. Switzerland 103 8.…

Knight Ridder Tribune and Tribune Media Services have a table at the annual Florida Press show where they gave away a new Calloway golf bag. This postcard promotes the giveaway. Design and Illustration by me.

It’s just 101 more days until the 2006 Winter Olympics start. And did you know that there are no websites with the phrase “oly em picks” or “oly em pick” or “oly em pics” or “oly em pic“? Crazy.

concrete concrete concrete i feel so tired and beat upon you i lay down and rest my feet how you suck away my heat leaving me to be one cold stick of meat concrete concrete concrete

Is there some group of people that like to go around and jump from rooftop to rooftop like in the movies? It would seem to be some sort of extreme sport. “Roof Jumpers” might be a better name, but then…

Being a die-hard Cubs fan who roots against the White Sox, I expect to hear crap from the White Sox fans when they win the World Series. It’s expected. BUT instead what I hear more is complaints from people that…

Do you know what you like or like what you know?

Does anyone know of a Demolition derby in the Chicagoland area? There’s this calendar for the Demolition Derby Drivers Association (gotta love the URL “wecrash.com”), but they don’t have any events listed for Illinois.

I was searching for some cool posters that featured interesting diagrams, tables or charts. Here’s twelve. Which is your favorite? Basic Nunchaku Kata poster from martial arts supermarket First Maps of the Internet from thinkgeek.com Weather Wizard’s Cloud Chart &…

Back in September 2003 I posted about Armored vehicles the next SUV. Now it’s becoming much closer to reality. SYN US concept for secure urban parking and driving Detroit January 7, 2005 Somewhere between an armoured car and a sporty…

A couple weeks ago I changed desks at work, and got a G5 computer (zippy!). Instead of turning it on via the keyboard, I reach down below my desk to hit the “on” button on the computer tower. Every morning…

Got some boring business cards? Here’s an idea to spice ’em up. Buy an animal hole punch at a hobby/art store. Punch the animal into your business card. Look up some trivia or jokes related to that animal for fun,…

Because, this wasn’t enough. Here is another photograph of adorable baby porcupines. (thanks to lisa for sending this to me)

As promised in my previous post on dodgeballs, here’s my dodgeball and kickball’s team logo designed by artist Cef Grima.

From Metroblogging Chicago: The deal with the Bean is that you can take a crappy camera and sort of wave it in the general direction of the Bean with your eyes closed and you take, every time, a freakin’ awesome…

Comic strips and comic books have such drastic size differences. A comic book page is 6-5/8 x 10-3/16 inches. That’s 67.5 square inches of space. A comic strip is 5-3/4 x 1-3/4 inches. That’s 10 square inches of space. What…

I’ve had my eye on the Sony Librie before it was released in Japan in March 2004. But it only had a Japanese operating system. Back in July 2005 a hacked English OS version was released, and now I’m tempted…

Ever print out an article because it’s too hard to read the entire thing on screen? Would you like to be able to read your articles on one piece of paper that can just magically change its ink? This does…

The ultimate collection of links for importing bookmarks from firefox into del.icio.us: Does anyone know of any programs/scripts/sites that can import firefox bookmarks into the del.icio.us bookmark system? There are a few, but none of them are very easy to…

Yahoo auctions have RSS feeds… …but only in the japan version. WHAT! Gimme some of that RSS action on the USA version of yahoo auctions. OK, I gotta hand it to yahoo. It’s free to post auctions for 10 days.…

Having images for posts on blogs are very helpful. We like to think that the main meat of a blog is content/text. But it’s hard to skim over a blog with no images. Images serve more than to just illustrate.…

I’m looking to buy some official dodgeballs used in the National Amateur Dodgeball Association (from: http://www.dodgeballusa.com/gear.html) Does anyone want to get one too? They cost $20.00 each with $3.50 to ship an individual ball. But the shipping is only $7.70…

I like hitting the return key It’s like bam! Done! More satisfaction from the return key than the exclamation key! Slam that return with my pinky Or if i really want to punctuate my return hit, i do it with…

Ever wanna have some fun? Do a search yahoo auctions CHINA! WHOA. it’s like a warp zone.

When you change clothes in your work bathroom, do you: A) Change right in the middle of the washroom B) Go inside a stall, but don’t close the door C) Go inside a stall, and close the door A man…

I want this in my backyard: Banzai Falls QuickSet Waterslide. Right next to my trampoline.

Underscorebleach.net had a nice link to graphs of Chicago’s traffic in real time throughout the day. Most sites just have the travel time for that particular time of day. But not only does this site have that, but they show…

Does anyone have any idea how much it would cost to buy a bunch of Segways?

Does this thing have any windows? Or are the tulip shapes clear windows?

United States coins have always featured protraits from the side. The new 2006 Jefferson nickel will be the first to have a front-facing portrait. Why have all the previous coins had profiles for the portraits? Here’s some thoughts: A) Coins…

After nearly 100 years of depicting presidents in somber profiles on the nation’s coins, the Mint is trying something different: The new nickel features Thomas Jefferson, facing forward, with the hint of a smile. The forward-looking 2006 nickel front was…