Year: 2008

What type of tea do you like? My recent fav is Yogi Tea‚Äôs Clarify Ginkgo IQ. Does it clarify my mind? I dunno. But it‚Äôs quite nummy. And an odd combination I stumbled across a couple months ago is how…

Facebook’s Scrabble application, Scrabulous keeps track of the highest-scoring words ever. The number one word: SINGHIOZZEREBBE, scoring 2118 points. It runs the ENTIRE length of the board touching on THREE triple letter squares. WOW. But that’s 15 letters! How can…

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

I’m just about to purchase a water filter. I was thinking of getting the big momma 1.13-gallon tank (Brita Ultra-Max Dispenser). The easy-to-use dispenser would be nice for filling up water bottles or cups. And it’s so monster huge, I…

Ironicsans has an interesting blog post about how overpasses are so handy, yet so forgotten. “Crossing over just a few lanes of traffic, they are simultaneously bridge and tunnel. We pass them and immediately forget about them. They are the…

MLB.com has a game called Beat the Streak where you try to put together a hitting streak to beat baseball’s legendary record of 56 games. Choose one player every day who you think will get at least one base hit.…

if you type “yes” a bunch and really fast, you’ll end up typing “eyes.” WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?: The eyes are tied to saying “yes.” wooooo.

Looking for new music? Something funky? Something with a groove? That’s what I like. Every four months I’ll post my favorite new songs that I recently discovered on iTunes. In this quarter’s mix you’ll find an international mix of French,…

Here’s a map of America with JUST the capitals. No state lines. It would be fun to number these stars and make them into a connect-the-dots game.

Dude, if you use Yahoo messenger, you can totally blast your friend with ALL the yahoo emoticons at once. Just copy and paste this into an IM: 🙂 🙁 😉 😀 ;;) >:D< :-/ :x :"> 😛 :-* =(( :-O…

Chicagoland design agency Rule 29 asks, What’s your favorite Crayola color? So far the designers have answered: Red, Hot Magenta, Salmon, Red-Orange, GoldenRod, Raw Umber, Spring Green, Cerulean Blue (three votes), Midnight Blue. All designers and nobody has said BLACK?…

It would be like, super ultra cool if they made a game controller that can read things, like a bar code reader or something. And then when you play the game, at a certain point you have to scan the…

Whenever you see a face in an inanimate object (like the one pictured above), they say “thank you.” But they actually say it, “mmmmmmma-mmmmmmmmo” It’s meant to be pronounced as though someone is saying “thank you” with his/her mouth closed–just…

Take your guess on the day when Chicago will be graced by 70+ degree temperatures. We’ve been having a bitter colder winter that just won’t go away. Let’s think about the day when warm temperatures will be here. My guess…

Here are my four favorite baseball websites: baseball-reference.com My favorite source for quick stats. Plus, it’s just fun to tool around on the site, looking at random stats. hardballtimes.com Great writing on baseball desipio.com Hilarious coverage of the Cubs cubscast.com…

Next time you catch a baseball at a Major League game have everyone around you sign it. At the very least have the people you’re with sign it. I don‚Äôt know if strangers will want to sign their name on…

Every year the two teams with the worst records should be banned from playing baseball for one year. That means the Pittsburgh Pirates (2007 record: 68-94 .420) and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2007 record: 66-96 .407) would be be banned…

There’s some funny smack talk on the Facebook Wrestler application. This blog post will be an archive of all the funny ones. Feel free to submit any to the comments. KEEP IT CLEAN. (I will delete anything that I don’t…

Popular Science reports the top 50 greenest cities. But their ranking combines several areas, Electricity, Transportation, Green living, Recycling and green perspective. The following list shows just the Recycling section: 5.0: Lexington, Ky 4.9: Oakland, Calif 4.9: Boston, Mass 4.9:…

I’m a lifetime Cubs fan. But I’m also gonna root for the Mets now. I only know a couple baseball fans on AIM and one of them is a Mets fan. Why not root for them too? Reasons not to…

The always great Tom of Xanga posted about how eggs are so expensive at two bucks for a dozen. But really, aren’t eggs cheap? I always thought eggs were incredibly, incredibly cheap. But then again, i don’t bake cakes or…

(Image courtesy Taekwonweirdo via Creative Commons license) Huh? Protesters march down Chicago‚Äôs Michigan Avenue. I look out my 14th floor window in the Tribune Tower to see banners saying “Free Tibet.” Tibet? Honestly, I have no idea what Tibet is…

It’s fun to take a phrase, convert it to spanish and then back to english. We termed that the freetranslation cycle. But what if we took our Pledge of Allegiance and converted it from English to Spanish to English to…

There are now 14,000 comments on spudart.org!!! Here are the all-time top ten commenters on spudart.org with the number of comments made: 2,074: Tom 1,502: Unlikelymoose 1,237: Laura 249: Lisa 201: Andy 134: Eliana 119: Sparx 78: Crissy 73: Angie…

(photo courtesy of sparx) Monkeys across the country are coming out in huge packs voting for presidential candidate Barack Obanana. Pollsters Franklin J. Schaffner says, “We are noticing the increase in primate attendance. I’m glad we installed those monkey bars…

Monkey bars belong everywhere. In hallways. Along the aisles of CTA cars. In meeting rooms. Architects of the world, pay attention. Monkey bars belong everywhere! Start incorporating monkey bars into all your designs. Who doesn’t appreciate a good monkey bar?

photo by Phil Cawley Can you believe that nobody sells curly straws on Google shopping?

(Photo courtesy of Sparx) This block of ice is actually an alien from Mars. He’s telling us, “You earthlings keep insisting that it’s spelled martians. It’s really marsians. We are from the planet of MARS, not MART.” He also wants…

A columnist for the Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, doesn’t understand Facebook. People’s expectations are too high. They think it’s some sort of savior or fix-it-all website. It’s not. But it does enable you to keep in touch with your larger…

Image courtesy from lrargerich via creative commons license Earthquake hits! Cracks form in the ground! What are those cracks called? And it’s not the “fault line.” The fault line is the plates underground and stuff. I’m talkin’ about right on…

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