Year: 2024

These two items appeared in my eBay “Keep shopping for” section. I did indeed look at both of these auctions previously. Cool how they visually look a bit similar.

Discover a new way to experience art with Good Things Vending. These unique machines across Chicago offer affordable, handcrafted items from nearly 200 local artists. #SupportLocalArtists #ChicagoArt

Atlas Obscura has published a list of potato places to visit. 10 Places That Will Take You to Potato Paradise: take a global tuber tour. Place City Country Potato Shed Memorial Boston, Massachusetts USA Frietmuseum Bruges Belgium Big Idaho Potato…

I totally missed out on Yarn Bombing Day. It’s on June 5th. “Yarn Bombing Day: Adding Color and Joy to Public Spaces” by Dean LaBerge, Grizzly Gazette. I love how this small town in Canada is covering Yarn Bombing Day.…

Have you seen this tool where you can figure out the location of a photo based on the shadow? It’s amazing. (video explainer) Although for it to work, you also need to know the exact time the photo was taken.…

Maybe Jasper Johns’ crosshatch paintings from 1973-1983 were inspired by this photograph in a 1973 National Geographic. Read more about this research from greg.org.

Today via my blog, someone found out that their dad installed the giant broadcasting antennae on the Tribune Tower in the 1930s. My post about the Tribune Tower observation deck included those who inscribed their names on the wall below…

Instagram will use your art, because you use their app. It’s time to drop Instagram. Is Cara the solution? The artwork on there is really high-level. I signed up for Cara, but I don’t think I’ll really be using it.…

This is a pretty funny action figure of Anakin Skywalker. It would be frightening to pair that up with a Darth Vader figure.

How to make a bookmarklet that will automatically search what you tweeted on this day ten years ago.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I bought a year’s subscription to Peacock just so I could watch the Olympics. I watched the first three minutes of ping-pong qualifications. It’s pretty cool how they check the height of the table…

Today I bought a one-year subscription to Peacock for $20. 100% of the reason is for the upcoming Summer Olympics. One of the tech blogs I follow mentioned this discount, and the price will soon go up.  I figure I’d…

This wee winged Ewok has taken flight in the most unexpected places around my house.

Who knew a train could do more than chug along tracks? Astrotrain can split open into a giant claw! See how Transformers can surprise you in unexpected ways.

When you find a new song on Spotify, how do you know if it's a new song or one from ten years ago?

The loud sound from cicadas comes from their body part call the tymbal. No wonder cicadas can make all that sound, it looks like some sort of speaker!

Prompt: "Make a high-contrast grayscale version with dragons and dramatic clouds"

If you ever wanted to drive AROUND the state of Illinois, here is a map that literally goes around the outline of Illinois. 22 hours, 12 minutes.

Updated April 30, 2024, from Glen Ellyn, IL USA Family Make annual family photo albumsPrint photo albums are so great, but they also take so much time selecting the images and laying them out. I would still like to work…

Via marca However, he does argue that in the near future there will only be three jobs that will be “immune” to AI, stating that the only ones that will ‘resist’ this new wave of technology will be energy-related jobs,…

Stumbled upon a striking visual parallel: an Ancient Egyptian funeral shroud & the Master Control Program from 'Tron'. Both showcase faces at their core but are centuries apart in creation. One rooted in the past, the other in digital dystopia.

I love my sparkle tape. It adds extra pizzazz to wrapping presents. It also looks really nice sitting on my tape reel in the basement.

It’s already a bit obvious that the character in the background of this painting is painted by someone else. But now AI has confirmed it by analyzing the microscopic patterns of the brushstrokes, along with the color palette and shading.…

This scrap of writing/drawing by Michelangelo was expected to sell for between $6,000 and $8,000. It sold for $201,600. The small work depicts a block of marble, with the word “simile,” or “similar” in English. It is believed to have…

Wow. That’s a price hike. My Evernote subscription jumped from $63.99/year to $113.99/year. Last year people have been complaining about the price hike, I was getting prepared to leave Evernote, but then I checked my subscription price, and saw it…

If you keep your gmail filters under 1,469 characters, you'll be ok.

Ever wondered how a painting sounds? Explore Dave Brubeck's unique jazz interpretation of Joan Miró's artwork.

What if the states were more balanced in size, ordered around population centers, and took weather into consideration?

When chocolate Easter bunnies are on 80% discount.

You know who loves solar eclipses? Ewoks.

In the year 2000, I bought a homemade Cabbage Patch Mr. T doll from a new-ish site called eBay. Now, he sits as the bodyguard to the bedroom of my 4-year-old and 7-year-old daughters.