Author: Matt Maldre

There this site at http://thesurrealist.co.uk/joke where you can make a joke about anything. All you do is put in the topic and some keywords related to it, and pow! It’ll give you a bunch of jokes–although they are so bad!…

I often get asked by people where is a good place to host their site. I’ll tell them not to go with olm.net (i’ve had major problems with them), or nomonthly (their basic plans do not include MySQL). Generally $10-$12…

From the olympic site: “Neve”: she is a gentle, kind and elegant snowball; “Gliz”: he is a lively, playful ice cube. They are the two symbolic characters of the XX Olympic Winter Games. They complement each other and personify the…

There’s this site called Cassette Jam ’05 where there are over 170 different images of old cassette tape designs. Here’s three of the tapes on that site that I have used.

I recently showed someone my list of Amateur Sport Event Calendars in Chicago and he replied, “laser tag is not a sport!” But I would say the formula for sport is: physical activity + competition = sport

SmarterChild is an instant message bot that you can ask questions. You can also IM the word “poll” to SmarterChild and it will ask you a question. Then it will give you the percentage of what others responded. Here’s a…

It gets so windy in our windy city of Chicago, that we have signs like this one at the brown line Western stop.

While walking to work, do you ever spot someone up ahead of you and make it your goal to pass that person before you get to work?

This was rather funny. Walgreens is selling cubbie bears wearing white sox shirts. Do you see the irony?

Many towns have a Main Street, but not Chicago.

Too bad the guy on that site doesn’t get lost. How to Find Objects You Lost

Ha the “soccer bowl” that’s a funny phrase… “I want to win the SOCCER BOWL!!!” And the soccer ball at the end of “sting” makes it look like it’s spelled as “Chicago Stingo”

It’s 100 days until 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino Italy All-time Winter Olympic medals 1. Norway 263 2. United States 193 3. Austria 162 4. Finland 142 5. Germany 125 (1928-36, 52-64, 92) 6. Sweden 108 7. Switzerland 103 8.…

Knight Ridder Tribune and Tribune Media Services have a table at the annual Florida Press show where they gave away a new Calloway golf bag. This postcard promotes the giveaway. Design and Illustration by me.

It’s just 101 more days until the 2006 Winter Olympics start. And did you know that there are no websites with the phrase “oly em picks” or “oly em pick” or “oly em pics” or “oly em pic“? Crazy.

concrete concrete concrete i feel so tired and beat upon you i lay down and rest my feet how you suck away my heat leaving me to be one cold stick of meat concrete concrete concrete

Is there some group of people that like to go around and jump from rooftop to rooftop like in the movies? It would seem to be some sort of extreme sport. “Roof Jumpers” might be a better name, but then…

Being a die-hard Cubs fan who roots against the White Sox, I expect to hear crap from the White Sox fans when they win the World Series. It’s expected. BUT instead what I hear more is complaints from people that…

Do you know what you like or like what you know?

Does anyone know of a Demolition derby in the Chicagoland area? There’s this calendar for the Demolition Derby Drivers Association (gotta love the URL “wecrash.com”), but they don’t have any events listed for Illinois.

I was searching for some cool posters that featured interesting diagrams, tables or charts. Here’s twelve. Which is your favorite? Basic Nunchaku Kata poster from martial arts supermarket First Maps of the Internet from thinkgeek.com Weather Wizard’s Cloud Chart &…

Back in September 2003 I posted about Armored vehicles the next SUV. Now it’s becoming much closer to reality. SYN US concept for secure urban parking and driving Detroit January 7, 2005 Somewhere between an armoured car and a sporty…

A couple weeks ago I changed desks at work, and got a G5 computer (zippy!). Instead of turning it on via the keyboard, I reach down below my desk to hit the “on” button on the computer tower. Every morning…

Got some boring business cards? Here’s an idea to spice ’em up. Buy an animal hole punch at a hobby/art store. Punch the animal into your business card. Look up some trivia or jokes related to that animal for fun,…

Because, this wasn’t enough. Here is another photograph of adorable baby porcupines. (thanks to lisa for sending this to me)

As promised in my previous post on dodgeballs, here’s my dodgeball and kickball’s team logo designed by artist Cef Grima.

From Metroblogging Chicago: The deal with the Bean is that you can take a crappy camera and sort of wave it in the general direction of the Bean with your eyes closed and you take, every time, a freakin’ awesome…

Comic strips and comic books have such drastic size differences. A comic book page is 6-5/8 x 10-3/16 inches. That’s 67.5 square inches of space. A comic strip is 5-3/4 x 1-3/4 inches. That’s 10 square inches of space. What…

I’ve had my eye on the Sony Librie before it was released in Japan in March 2004. But it only had a Japanese operating system. Back in July 2005 a hacked English OS version was released, and now I’m tempted…

Ever print out an article because it’s too hard to read the entire thing on screen? Would you like to be able to read your articles on one piece of paper that can just magically change its ink? This does…

The ultimate collection of links for importing bookmarks from firefox into del.icio.us: Does anyone know of any programs/scripts/sites that can import firefox bookmarks into the del.icio.us bookmark system? There are a few, but none of them are very easy to…