Top song of November 2010: All I Want
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.”
Year: 2010
Do you administer a Facebook Fan Page?
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 on a daily basis! Below is a list of all the people I know that …
Read only what you want in Facebook by using lists
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 friends administer. How? Did you know that you can make your own lists of friends? …
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Save money! Instead of rubber tires, get a bike with iron tires
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 like the National Archives Chicago Facebook Page
NBC Chicago can exploit and resell your submitted photos
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. You basically give NBC Universal the perpetual and irrevocable, license to copy, alter, reproduce, distribute, …
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Chicago City Hall during Christmas is beautiful
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 was pleasantly not busy for 3pm on Thursday. However, I wasn’t feeling inspired by anything …
Google image search for your name
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 with a headshot like mine and he’s also wearing a tan plaid shirt! He is …
ART PROJECT IDEA: Put something in the tiny bike basket
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 it could be anything people wish. Or maybe there could be a sticky note pad …
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What streets have you lived on?
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?
Quark 8.5 released
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 stamps are the cutest stamps in the world
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. A great big thanks to Greatscott66 for posting these. He posts fun stamps that he …
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