Several movie trucks were lined up on Upper Illinois Ave in Chicago–just north of the Tribune Tower. Taped on one of the doors was a small poster for “Fred Claus” featuring Vince Vaughn. From the imdb: “Joe Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.” Does that mean we get …
(The number of times Pepsi, Coke, Coca-Cola, Sprite, Mountain Dew were searched on Google) Coke spikes in July 2006 with rumor of secrets being sold. Ok, so there can be a sharp spike in searches when there’s a juicy news story that comes out–as with the case of the story that three people were accused …
Mark May 6, July 7, and September 8 on your calendar this year! May 6 05/06/07 08:09 03:04 05/06/07 July 7 07/07/07 07:07 September 8 09/08/07 06:05 11:10 09/08/07 You can add these events to your calendar as an iCal feed in Google Calendar or 30boxes!
While in McDonalds there was this dude in his 40s talking to himself loudly. He was talking about how this year is the “two double-oh-seven.” That’s a cool name for this decade, “the double oh’s.” And “double oh seven” just makes the year 2007 even better.
Sporting events 2006: Winter Olympics, World Baseball Classic, and the World Cup. 2007: No big crazy sporting events Winner: 2006 Chinese Year 2006: Year of the dog 2007: Year of the pig Winner: 2006 Year of 2006: Year of Mozart, marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 2007: International Polar Year …
The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2006. list of four-letter words with three vowels (6,163) I’m just amazed that this is number one. Wild Chicago Archives (4,353) No suprise here. WTTW should have kept this list on their site. Pantone’s color palette predictions for the 2007 Home (3,692) …
I couldn’t pick a favorite post from 2006, so here’s my top 25 with notes: Seeing earth for the first time An interesting view of earth we normally don’t see The difference between one million and one billion A baby is one million seconds old. A 31-year-old is one billion seconds old. Trains in your …
