A great Christmas surprise this year? Christmas ninjas! With these fun little guys around the house, you’ll find everyone asking, “Hey, what happened to the Christmas cookies?” Ninjas. These little guys bearing peppermint weapons will surely bring a fresh breath of air to your Christmas. They could cause all sorts of mischief around your house. …
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When a parking lot has circles painted on the surface, how can you not do donuts on them? Mysterious circles in parking lot On birthday I went on a little bike ride. Along the way home is a YMCA with a mostly empty parking lot. This lot has painted about 8 to 12 circles, each …
Are you ever looking for a font that is super-duper condensed? A font so tall, that you can barely read it? A skyscraper of a font—even more than a skyscraper—I want a font that is a 1,450-foot tall stick. Is there such an ultra-compressed font? And is it free? My search for such a beast …
This is one of my favorite things on the internet. The past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower in a one-minute time lapse animation. This one-minute video file is constantly updated throughout the day to reflect the past 24 hours of the Eiffel Tower. The source of these images comes from a live webcam. See …
The Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius writes on how to begin each day for optimal sanity and the key to living fully. Brainpickings.org hand-picked out some of Aurelius’ quotes. (They do such a great job quoting and summarizing inspiring works of literature.) Here are some his quotes that stood out to me At …
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As we stand on Election Day, let’s look back 12 years ago when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. The excitement at Chicago’s Grant Park was electric! I updated all the photos on my original 2008 blog post to be high-resolution to fill the page. That magical night, I also recorded a handful of …
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I love the garbage truck. Every week, it comes and takes away my trash. All I have to do is put the trash can on the curb. Such a great service. I don’t have to bury my trash in my backyard, instead they bury it in someone else’s backyard. Ok, now I feel guilty. What …
[Disclaimer: First let me say that cow tipping is not a nice thing to do. It’s pretty much impossible to tip a cow. They are very squarely built.] In the virtual world of the world wide web, a page exists where you can tip over a tiny little cow gif. Go to: angelfire.com/oh/cow123/tip.html and click …
The Jawa Sandcrawler kinda looks a bit like ancient pan pipes from Peru. The angled shape. The worn surface. The rusty color. These two objects from completely different worlds have an odd affinity for each other. Did the this Peruvian musical instrument somehow land on Tatooine? Jawas found it in the desert, and thought the …
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When brainstorming, you often start with one word, and then come up with related concepts to that word. A thesaurus is often nice, because it gives you synonyms for the word. If you use thesaurus.com, you’d get: detonation, explosion, roar, rumble, barrage, blast, boom, booming, cannonade, clap, cracking, crash, crashing, discharge, drumfire, fulmination, outburst, peal, …
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Fireworks captured in 1782. Very cool to see artwork capturing fireworks from so long ago. The Art Institute of Chicago’s “Art Tab” Chrome extension always displays interesting random artworks. Check out how crazy these fireworks look. The lines streaking across the sky looks like lightning! I’m guessing these early fireworks didn’t always have a straight …
