Author: Matt Maldre

Let’s say you have an event one week from today that you really want to be at. Now you can jump to the future and be at that event! The only catch. This time machine is kinda slow. To attend…

Google Buzz is fantastic. When you do a regular google search, there’s now a special section for “results from people in your social circle.” I love it. Today I did a search for: chicago hot dog; and my friend’s blog…

Quiznos emailed me a coupon today. I was happy. Thus I emailed Quiznos with my thanks. Here’s the email: ============== My dear quiznos rock star, Perfect timing. My friend and I were just talking about expanding our lunch horizons. Quiznos…

I got so excited when Facebook showed an ad for the 2010 Olympic mascots. Especially since it showcases my favorite mascot, QUATCHI! When I clicked on the ad, I was totally expecting to go to an Olympic mascot page. Instead…

I would love an iPhone Atari 2600 emulator app. Right now an iTunes search for “atari” results in the following games: — Centipede — Missile Command — Super Breakout — Atari Football — Backyard Hockey — Backyard Baseball — Backyard…

Sitting in the garbage can at work was a cardboard package for tea. I exclaimed, “What! This can be recycled!” and fished it out of the garbage. Continuing to make my tea, I almost threw out my empty sugar packet…

With Apple naming their new tablet the iPad, it makes me think someone is saying iPod with a Chicago accent. In honor of the spirit of replacing the “o” with an “a,” I present to you the new lol… lal…

If I drink once a week I’ll get more matches on eHarmony. That’s what a customer rep told me on the phone when I wanted to cancel my subscription. Here’s the story. I was on eHarmony for four months. An…

The United States now has 246 million registered motor vehicles and 209 million licensed drivers–nearly 5 vehicles for every 4 drivers. (from alternet.org) How are there more cars than drivers? I don’t know anyone who owns two cars. I know…

The number in parenthesis is the number of hits the post got in 2009. Oprah group dance on Michigan Avenue has inspiration in previous YouTube viral video (42,302) I shot a video of this performance and put it up on…

Fast Food Nation, Food Inc, In Defense of Food, End of Overeating. After reading these books and seeing these movies, many people become vegetarians. Can we see the signals on a larger cultural scale? [New note: I need to put…

Want to know how to have death-ray vision on spiders? No more squishing the spiders with kleenex. Now you can simply eliminate the spider by looking at it. I will tell you how I was able to achieve this feat…

R2D2 recently tweeted this, “*doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot doot DEET!*” What does he mean?

What do you think this emoticon is? ~([-_-])~ (props to Noel for tweeting his creation. That’s how i found it)

I just have to share this genius question and brilliant responses from facebook:

You might be thinking, “the new millennium was in 2000, this is 2010.” But! The millennium is still pretty new. 10 years old. Considering that a millennium is 1000 years long, ten years is a drop in the bucket. 2010…

At the risk of sounding elitist, I’m gonna bear down and say some things that crossed my mind as I read Rex W. Huppke’s article in the Chicago Tribune, “A new year is no time to change feelings about resolutions.”…

I put a web address on my 2009 Christmas card.

Waiting for the bus in the winter can get quite cold in Chicago. Thankfully we now have these bus shelters that help block the wind. In fact, when it gets really cold you can try standing by the illuminated ad…

Taking a break at Tina’s Hot Dog Place on Montrose, I had a nativity in my hand freshly purchased for the second round of “Manger in an Alley” photos. I couldn’t resist photographing it on the table next to the…

The Chicago Tribune and other top content providers are participating in Google’s new online reader, the Google Fast Flip. Take a look at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com. Here’s my review: I was leery as I read bout Fast Flip on Google’s blog. But…

(if you cannot view the above video, you can view it on my flickr account, “Talking ferret scoozie stuffed animal plush.”) Sometime during the late 90s, I bought this plush ferret from a grocery store. He has a voice box…

For greater impact, instead of saying “!!!” use “EXCLAMATION POINT EXCLAMATION POINT EXCLAMATION POINT” The “!!!” is way too short. But look at long and impactful spelling it out in words is. Man, that’s just HUGE and forces you to…

Take a phrase like, “Whoa! Momma mia!” and make it into one word by deleting the spaces. You now have: “Whoamommamia!“

“Monday monday, can’t trust that day” goes the song lyrics. But I trust Mondays more than Tuesdays. Tuesdays try to sneak in all sneaky-like. Mondays are pretty up-front with being a Monday. When Monday comes, Monday says, “YO, IT’S MONDAY…

Every Christmas season, Chicago’s greatest hipster crafters get together and sell their ironic, cool, stylish wares. Here’s a few reasons why Renegade puts on a great holiday show. 1. Great location The Pulaski Park Fieldhouse is worth the trip alone.…

A few blocks east of Chicago’s hipster neighborhood lies the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse. The Renegade Craft Fair holiday show has been held in this wonderful building the past couple years. It’s so much fun exploring all the rooms. Imagine when…

Type an equation into Google’s searchbar, and it will do the math for you. Sometimes I like to type in goofy equations like, “111,111,111 x 111,111,111” The result is rather striking. Does anyone have any cool one-line math equations to…

Check out this super-cool hi-tech community in a cabin. Leo Laporte talks about: * Keeping our open internet * Net neutrality * Starting your own business * Bootstrapping * Niche marketing * Broadcasting * Podcasts If you like ANY of…

Insert person’s name into the word insane to call them insane. spudart + insane = inspudane matt + insane = inmattane Dude, you are so inmoosane!

Would you like the ability to include some lightning bolts in your txts? Could your tweets use some extra magnificent flash? I would love to have a lightning bolt character. And you know what? Unicode has a lightning bolt! Here…