Author: Matt Maldre

Sparxmind asked what superpower would you like to have. And if you can’t have your #1 most-wanted superpower, what would be your #2 and #3 wanted superpower. That’s a GREAT way of asking the question. You should leave a comment…

Public calendars: Upcoming.org planyp.us eventful.com Social sites: 43things.com Facebook MySpace bulletins MySpace events Friendster Bulletin Board Local papers/websites: Metromix.com (must be three weeks in advance) Craigslist Centerstage Chicago (only music or theatre events) Gapersblock eventful.com Eventful.com will also post to…

Right now construction crews are drilling 34 holes in the ground going 120 feet deep, 10-feet in diameter. These will be the caissons for America’s tallest building, the Chicago Spire to be completed in 2010–or will it be completed? Many…

Google Trends on: ron paul, rudy giuliani, mitt romney, john mccain Google Trends on: hillary clinton, barack obama, john edwards, dennis kucinich Let’s try to get Dennis Kucinich to achieve a break out in searches!

Forget drinking out of the big water jugs. They are bad for your health and the environment. The hard plastic is bad An array of serious reproductive disorders in people are caused by a chemical found in the hard plastic…

I’m helping to organize this event at the Apple store. Anyone that wants to come is very welcome! Stan Lawrence and Terry Armour of WCKG-FM (105.9) will be guests of honor at September‚Äôs Chicago Area Podcasters Network Meetup. The podcasters…

My photo, AMA Building Shadows is featured on Gapers Block Rearview for September 10, 2007. Hooray! Check out the Flickr photo and high-resolution prints at deviantart.

I am a twin. My name is Matt. My twin’s name is Erik. My parents are smart. They gave us names that sound different. It allows us to be individuals. Again, let me stress how smart my parents are. Then…

The name “Boy” is not in the top 1000 names for any year of birth in the last 15 years. I’m sure there are some people who get so tired of trying to find the right name for their child,…

What’s up? What’s shaking? yeah yeah. How about some new phrases: * What’s rolling? * What’s jumping? * What’s spinning? PLEASE leave some related alternatives in the comments. There’s GOTTA be some more.

It’s fun to end sentences with “, no?” Yes? I’m trying to think of a good example to leave here, no? But my brain isn’t coming up with any.

I hope Chicago is getting their act together on their new logo. The bids are due to the International Olympic Committee a week from Thursday! You’d think the Chicago bid would include their logo somewhere. (FYI, the logo pictured above…

I will be incorporating these acronyms into my chat vocabulary. Learn them and know what I’m saying when I IM you. * GI — Google it * IIOYT — is it on YouTube? * CMOS — call me on Skype…

“A senior Chinese official said that 85 percent of the more than 20 million toys recalled by Mattel were caused by problematic designs from the US.” (source: China Daily) China’s all like, “take that, be-yatch!” Next thing you know, America…

What a name. In Italian, Saltalamacchia means “Salt wing stains.”

You have 30 seconds to yourself in an elevator. What can you do in 30 seconds? Here’s an example: Stand upside-down, and then stand back normal before the doors re-open.

Whenever you computer starts acting strange, check to see if any of your keys on your keyboard are stuck. Just now I thought that my computer was wiggin out. In Quark i could only get the hand tool. In all…

Four window washers dangling down Cleaning office windows throughout town Three quietly slide down their rope One goofedly acts like a dope He slides down with great flair As if he’s on some sort of dare

Get great free widgets at Widgetbox! Enter your address at www.walkscore.com and find out how walkableness of your neighborhood based on what’s nearby. Here’s the scores of my places: 98: Tribune Tower (my place of employment) 95: My old apartment…

ABC News posted a photo of all the Democratic presidential candidates, but they cut Dennis Kucinich out of the photo! Before (with Dennis Kucinich) source: Yahoo News After (without Dennis Kucinich) Oddly enough ABC News kept Kucinich in the caption,…

The lower case j in Futura looks like crap, as unlikelymoose pointed out in his blog post, “Futura Book “j” stinks. However, Futura is such a standard for font choices. Futura is so round, geometric, it exudes a classic feel.…

A 73-year-old man dangles a long piece of plastic off the side one of the busiest pedestrian bridges in the world. It’s just after the high peak of lunch time in Chicago with the tourists and office workers out in…

If your last name is “Com,” you should totally make your child’s middle name be “Dot.” Then whatever your child’s first name will the the domain. matt dot com. This would encourage the parents to name their child a domain…

Graphic designers use a standard body of text for placeholder text: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris…

In the Transformers movie, Optimus Prime says that he used earth’s “eBay” to find the glasses imprinted with the Allspark’s coordinates. So I’m thinkin, there’s gotta be a user on eBay with the name Optimusprime. Sure enough there is: http://myworld.ebay.com/optimusprime.…

The only piece of artwork on the moon is a three-inch tall aluminum figure representing an astronaut. This work was created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck as a dedication to the astronauts and cosmonauts who died from the space…

Don’t ever take Interstate-90 when you are supposed to take Interstate-94. I was attending a wedding celebration this weekend in Libertyville, Illinois (northern suburb of Chicago). I took I-90 and instead ended up in Rockford! (A city far, far, far…

If you ever read or find a funny typo, please post it here. Let me start the list: * elmhurst = elmhurts * sears tower = swears tower

Funmaster Bernie De’Koven posted about shoe trees. One person would toss a pair of shoes onto a power line, and then other people would join in and throw more pairs of shoes up. The shoes would start to collect and…

You will be fined between $25 and $200 every time you use the Chicago seal! If you sell 10 tshirts with the Chicago seal, you could get fined from $250 to $2,000. Yeee-ouch! Chicago takes our seal VERY seal-riously. 1-8-100…