Year: 2007

No suprise here that the book of John is the most searched gospel. I’m a bit surprised that there isn’t any spike in traffic during Christmas. Maybe people are too busy shopping and involved with other activities during Christmas. But…

Darth Maul Lightsaber Pen Just take a regular pen with a cap, add a second cap to the other side, and pow! It’s like having a double-ended light saber!

Garrison Keillor wrote an interesting article entitled, “Newspapers give us style all our own.” It’s an excellent piece which I greatly enjoyed. Newspapers are classic. They do portray certain cool style when you are reading one in a cafe. Newspapers…

There should be a list of the official team colors for professional teams. So I’m starting one here. I’m accepting the colors for any team in the NHL, NFL, MLB, and NBA. Seeing that I’m a designer for the Tribune,…

If you had to choose five podcasts to recommend to a person with a brand new interest in listening to podcasts, what would you recommend? Here’s my top five (in no order): ============ Slate Magazine Daily Podcast Politics, popular culture,…

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…

(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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…