Year: 2010

Here’s a fun poem: yeah but but yeah

My 50 most interesting photos posted in 2010 The following set was automatically created by dopiaza’s set generator. It’s a really cool script. Every day it checks the popularity ranking of all my photos I posted in 2010 and then…

“Never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt But my President Franklin D. Roosevelt, during your presidency of 1933-1945, there were many time-saving inventions; such as the photocopier, the…

fastcodesign tweeted: Why Do College Sports Fans Hate the Big Ten’s Smart New Logo (by @PentagramDesign)? http://bit.ly/hRIHNc My response: Because these same college sports fans aren’t smart to begin with. Note, I’m not saying all college sports fans aren’t smart,…

Here’s what the Art Institute should do for their lion sculptures for Christmas 2011. Wrap them entirely in crochet. People would love it. Photo from http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/wall-street-bull-crocheted/ Here’s what the Art Insitute of Chicago did in 2010: And what the lion…

Seen via Wooster Collective. A few artists unofficially assembled a fence in the middle of the popular Palackeho square in Prague. The government officials were confused and didn’t do anything to it at first. The artists wanted to question what…

Being an optimist simply brings lots of joy. We all like to enjoy. To enjoy is to have joy. The question is where does this joy come from? Not just mere happiness, but a true joy that comes from a…

An interesting conversation was happening about using one of my photos on Brian Micklethwait’s blog. Brian debates about “what the owner of the photos would think.” It’s fun reading about this debate. Especially since I’m part of it. I’m totally…

The top 500 websites according to seomoz: [Updated on September 21, 2017. If the favicons are not loading, view a screenshot of all 500]

What if cities were nicknamed after the last three letters of their name? New York would be called “Ork.” Houston would be named “Ton.” Here’s the full list of 100 American cities, sorted by population (according to wikipedia). Roll over…

When you walk into a store from the cold, do you unzip your jacket to get warm? Sometimes I think that if I keep my jacket zipped up, I will keep the cold inside my jacket. Think about it. When…

My most listened-to song of October 2010 is Kate Earl’s “All I Want.” Available on Amazon and iTunes. Her last.fm page says, “Kate’s music has been likened to that of Bjork, Joni Mitchell, and Fiona Apple.”

Two questions: 1) Do I know you? (in real life or from online) 2) Do you administer a Facebook Fan Page? If the answer to both questions are “yes” then I want to follow your Page, and actually read it…

Facebook Pages. Do you read them? I like Pages, but I never read them. It’s kinda sad, because I have friends who administer Pages. To solve that problem, I’m making a list in Facebook of all the Pages that my…

In these harder times, bicycles with rubber tires are too expensive. Save your pennies and get a bicycle with iron tires. From the National Archives Chicago Facebook Page: Would you get a bicycle without rubber tires to save money? Please…

NBC Chicago has a fun section on their website called “So My City.” They welcome people to “Tell us your moment.” I was about to submit a couple of my photos and stories, until I read their terms of service.…

The old marble walls are lit up with alternating green and red lamps. It’s simply majestic. During lunch I walked from the Tribune Tower down to Daley Plaza looking for Christmas things to photograph. The Christkindl Market in Daley Plaza…

Do a Google image search for my name, Matt Maldre, and the results show a photo of me that I use everywhere. I’m wearing a tan plaid shirt. But then just a few results after that, there is a guy…

This photo by vivagirlco sparked an art project idea. It would be fun to lock up a cute itty bitty little bicycle like this and put a note on it asking people to put something in the bicycle basket. Perhaps…

I’m starting a new twitter hashtag named #streetswhereilived Please tweet all the street names of where you have lived. Mine are 114th, Griffin, East, Cornelia, Bell What are all the streets where you have lived?

I’m surprised that Quark is still releasing new versions. Last week I got an email from Quark saying they are releasing version 8.5. Here’s my email response to them. I like giving Quark a hard time.

Finland’s stamps feature the cutest illustrations and photos. Cartoon hippos camping, animals dancing around a Christmas tree, funky shaped stamps, raspberry delights, snow dogs. C’mon you can’t beat that. This is going to make me a collector of Finnish stamps.…

In celebration of Christmas coming up, here are some of my favorite Christmas photos shot around Chicago.

Does this photo look extremely dark to you? On my monitor at home it looks fine, but at work it’s very dark It should look bright, not dark. When I worked on this photo at home it didn’t look like…

I’m thinking about doing a project with all the historical markers in Chicago. Maybe a collection of photos. A photo of just the plaque. A photo of the location where the plaque is. Maybe a 30 second video of the…

In honor of 11/11/10, I bring you the tweets at significant numbers. Tweet #100. Twitter was really exciting at the start. Tweet #1,000. The first people on twitter were party animals! Tweet #10,000. Curbing your wheels? The one billionth tweet.…

Walgreens opened up a geo-thermal store in Oak Park. TribLocal reports: The technology functions because of four close-looped, liquid-filled boreholes that extend 650 feet into the ground. The liquid is heated using the Earth’s natural temperature, about 55 degrees. Heat…

My most listened-to song of October 2010 is Lelia Broussard’s Satelitte (a robot love story). Available on Amazon.com and iTunes. Lelia Broussard is also my most played artist of October 2010.

I changed my work twitter account from @tribunematt to @mattmaldre this past month. The tribune name was too corporatey. All the Twitter users in the Chicago Tribune don’t use “Tribune” in their name, and I felt kinda funny using it…

I love this idea! Two of these shops have been on my “to visit” for way too long, and now this is just the incentive to get me to visit. From Chicagocomics.com via gapersblock.com Forget pub and bar and even…

Find out which if your friends has the most common interests with you. A new feature on Facebook lists your top friends that have the most common liked Pages as you. facebook.com/pages/browser.php. Here’s my list: Hey, how about you like…