Year: 2010

🙂 the smiley emoticon. It’s fun to think that it takes the simultaneous effort of both your pinky fingers to type a smiley face. The left pinky holds down the shift key, while the right pinky finger presses the colon…

It would be cool to see a gallery of every official country website. I’m thinking of every year I’ll take a screenshot of these websites. Ten, twenty years from now it would be interesting to see how they evolve. Can…

A shop named “sexoffender” has been on Etsy since 2009. It’s clearly wrong to have a store with this name. Etsy is not taking the store down. Please please please report this store to Etsy. If enough people complain, then…

You may have seen a bunch of people tweeting their Twifficiency score. twifficiency.com explains: ————– In a nut shell, Twifficiency calculates your twitter efficiency based upon your twitter activity. This includes how many people you follow, how many people follow…

Unlikelymoose has pitted pinnacle architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson against each other in a Faceoff Friday. Who will win? My choice is Philip Johnson. To prove my point, I made a collage of all his menacing photos.…

What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like that it’s a set of stairs that I climb every day. To think those…

The Wrigley Field rooftops are struggling financially as the Cubs suck. “There’s a lot of money going out and only some coming in,” said Rich Zasiebida (in a Tribune interview), managing partner of the Skybox on Sheffield, 3627 N. Sheffield…

Urbandictionary.com is the alternative dictionary for slang, subculture words, phrases, and phenomena not found in standard dictionaries. I love the site, because users submit totally crazy definitions for words–both existing words and totally new words. All my submissions for new…

Curious about what your first tweet is? Just head over to mytweet16.com and they’ll show your first 16 tweets. (However, if you have over 3,200 tweets, they won’t be able to retrieve your first 16 tweets.) Signing up for twitter,…

Ewoks have been known to live on the forest moon of Endor. But it was only until recently that Google Maps has discovered that Endor is actually a small town in South Africa. According to this satellite imagery, you can…

It’s really cool when one of your quotes appears alongside quotes from people such as Dr. Seuss and Walt Whitman. Quotesdaddy.com so far has published 22 of my quotations.

Today is the second day in a row that I saw someone walk by and then the EXACT same person walked by a minute later. The first experience was sitting at the first floor cafe outside Nordstorms on Michigan Avenue…

The commanding officer of the first Death Star has a laser pointer. He’s willing to trade it to you. What would you offer to the Death Star Commander? Now, let’s add another layer to this. Let’s say you are an…

Ever draw a blank for what to write on someone’s facebook wall for a birthday wish? Draw a blank no more! Why not wish your friend a happy birthday in ewokese!? It’s a real language with a dictionary on the…

Apple used to produce a weekly podcast called “New Music Tuesday.” It was a nice 15-minute show that gave a quick overview of new music coming out. They played song clips and gave brief commentary about each clip. It was…

For July’s top tweets, I picked the one tweet from each account that I use regularly in the past month. @DepressedDarth who needs chopsticks? me eat with paws. or just dunk my face into the plate. http://twitter.com/EwokLumat/status/19670390993 When you roll…

(photo by ohalchemygirl) It’s a monster versus sushi smackdown! Who will be the last monster or sushi standing? My bet is on the tamago. I love tamago. (that’s the rectangular yellow egg maki). Please leave a comment about which character…

Share your entire iphone app list with others. I’d like an app that can do that. And share the folders you use to organize your apps. While, yes, many would argue they don’t want people to know ALL their apps.…

Just a couple blocks from my apartment a car did a crazy parking job. jacklydon on flickr captured the moment with nine photos. After leaving a comment on one photo, I started to have fun leaving comments on other photos.…

Get your cherry-flavored H1N1 shots! Would you like your H1N1 shot to be flavored as blue raspberry, Coke or wild cherry? Walgreens has a bright yellow sign posted on their ICEE machine stating that people can get their H1N1 shots…

The word truly is funny. 1. Truth is absolute. 2. The ending -ly is like in appearance, manner, or nature : having the characteristics of So truly would be having the characteristics of truth. But with truth, it’s either true…

After work wanna unwind to some live meditative classical music in a beautiful setting? Every Tuesday during the summer, St James Episcopal Cathedral offers a wonderful getaway right off the Michigan Avenue. It’s a beautiful church. Get there no later…

Transformers 3 is filming outside my window at Tribune Tower. I’m capturing the highlights in HD video and posting them to Youtube. Actors carry around poles with the transformers face to represent the Transformers. Here two transformers are in this…

It’s pretty cool that we can measure the hotness of the air. Thank you Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. The heat index got up to 102 in Chicago yesterday. How do those numbers add up? What if the temperature number always started…

Isn’t it nice how our planet spins around every 24 hours? We go to bed at night and it’s still hot. But when we wake up, it’s nice and cool. Imagine if our planet only rotated every 116 days. Then…

Do a search for coolest place on earth in Google Maps and it brings you to Earth, TX. Somehow I don’t think Texas is the coolest place on earth. Sorry, Texas. But you are just too hot to be considered…

Here’s my favorite six tweets from June 2010 tweeted from spudart. Why aren’t there more politicians with the last name Lincoln, Washington, and Jefferson?

I’m going to start a new project. I was looking at all the stamps I have and how they are unused. So I want to do a mail project. When looking at Facebook, instead of liking something on someone’s wall,…

I’ve reached one million views on all my flickr photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart. Thank you to everyone who has viewed my photos. Here’s my top three most viewed photos: Chicago’s Moving Bridges over the Chicago River Viewed 41,256 times The Chicago…

Wow. I often think of the battle against drunk driving to be an effort in the past 20 years. But they were posting ad campaigns even back in the 1930’s! The National Archives in Chicago stores a bajillion-million files and…

Celebrate the day with the most sunlight by pulling an all-nighter outside. I accidentally did this a few years ago as I locked myself out of my apartment at 11pm. I didn’t want to wake up the building engineer to…