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  • Do you chew more often with one side of your mouth? September 16, 2004
    Do you use one side of your mouth more often to chew than the other? I use the right side of my mouth much more often. In fact when I use the left side of my mouth, things taste more……
  • Lola folder September 16, 2004
    At the time of this folder, Lola the comic strip had been around for five years. It’s in over 100 newspapers and we wanted to bring it up to the next level. So a new sales folder was to be…
  • Top 10 reasons for sitting in the corner of a room September 16, 2004
    Whether you're at work or home, sitting in a corner can have its perks.
  • Does Mount Prospect have a town flag? September 15, 2004
    Here’s an email I sent to Mount Prospect’s Village Hall: ——– Original Message ——– Subject: Does Mount Prospect have a town flag? From: “spudart.org” Date: Tue, September 14, 2004 3:49 pm To: [email protected] Does the great town of Mount Prospect,…
  • Reverse order numbered list in html? September 15, 2004
    With HTML, you can make a numbered list by doing the following: < OL > < LI >apples < LI >bananas < LI >cranberries < LI >oranges < /OL > Which appears like this:applesbananascranberriesorangesBut is there a numbered list in…
  • Pottery Wars September 15, 2004
    In 1592 and 1597, Japan’s government sent warriors over to Korea and kidnapped their pottery experts in the “Pottery Wars.” The deadly warriors brought the Korean potters back to Japan to introduce the new fancy ceramic technologies–the kick-wheel and the…
  • Calexico at Chicago’s Double Door: Concert Review September 14, 2004
    On their albums, Calexico is a wonderful balance of different layers of music (the marimba, piano accordion, trumpets, double bass, pedal steel, maracas). But in live performance, it was surprising how their lead singer, Joey Burns, took the central stage.…
  • The story of the Pottery Wars September 14, 2004
    It’s coming wednesday, sept 15th at 7:51am on spudart.org
  • Sept 14-19 Chicago’s upcoming events September 14, 2004
    Here’s a list of upcoming chicago events I’m considering attending. Anyone interested in coming with, just lemme know. Art Institute Talk: “What’s New in Asian Art?,” Art Institute Gallery 100 Tue, Sep 14, noon Lester Fisher talk about his new…
  • Flying Onion Attack! logo September 14, 2004
    A logo for my fantasy football league team, the Flying Onion Attack! Client: Me Fonts: Holiday Ranch from fontdiner.com Clip Art: Art Explosion 750,000 images
  • painful origins of poignant September 10, 2004
    Yesterday someone told me something that I thought was quite poignant. To make sure I was spelling it correctly, I looked it up on dictionary.com and the meaning is a bit different than what I thought. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=poignant. Poignant was always…
  • Transformers Transfigured: review September 9, 2004
    Chicago’s Review Aug 30 – Sep5: Tranformers Transfigured at Rotofugi. Summary: Nice effort, but disappointment. Cool stuff, but there were like only a handful. And they weren’t even of the real Transformers. They were of some Japanese anime robots. Granted…
  • Chicago Weekend Preview & Review September 9, 2004
    Hey, will this be another feature on spudart.org? Every monday or tuesday (yeah, i’m late today is thursday) a preview of what’s upcoming this week. And a review of what happened the past week. I try to make this blog…
  • Can a crumbled sheet of paper be mailed? September 9, 2004
    I was in a brainstorm meeting for a brochure. What kinds of folds shall we use? Gatefold? Double Gatefold? Frenchfold? Mapfold? Accordianfold? Barrelfold? (examples) We are playing with all these different options of folds. Fold this. Fold that. la la…
  • Bible with room for notes September 9, 2004
    I’m looking for a New King James Version bible with room to write notes in the margins. Any suggestions? It’d be great if it was like a slimline version. yeah yeah. i want a slim version, but with room for…
  • Leg pouch style September 8, 2004
    Here’s another style… well, not really a style, but an accessory. I don’t like having lots of things in my pockets, so the travel leg bag is quite helpful—and James Bondesque. WHAM BAM! Whip that cell phone out of your…
  • Coins that Change 1, 2, 3 September 8, 2004
    Here’s a new spudart feature: beat-up coins. We all get ’em and find them amusing. Just how much our currency goes through from person to person. Here’s three examples of beat-up coinage. The coin on the far left has no…
  • Toilet paper users among passionate consumer groups September 7, 2004
    A friend recently purchased a Macintosh and made a post on her blog about how Mac users are very passionate. Which yeah, Mac users are among the most passionate consumer groups out there. Ranking with Jeep owners, VW owners, and…
  • Oh bull of red, how can I chug thee? September 7, 2004
    Some simple observations about Red Bull… The tiny hole in the can makes it harder to chug. What’s up wid dat? Here is a comparison of a Coca-Cola can by a Red Bull can side-by-side. Hey now, let’s be fair—the…
  • Headphone cord bracelet September 6, 2004
    Here’s another wrist idea. Got some old headphones that only one ear works? Or how about when you have to twist the plug around until the sound comes out? What a pain. Turn that headphone annoyance into some accessories!—a headphone…
  • sock wristbands: new fashion September 6, 2004
    During the summer the Levi’s storefront on Michigan Avenue in chicago had a mannequin with the leg part of a sock cut off and then worn as a wristband. So on a cold morning in august (in the 50s), I…
  • When is the olympics womens soccer gold match? August 23, 2004
    Zap2it and Yahoo have it listed as: “F‚Ñ¢tbol Soccer Femenil: Juegos por las Medallas de Oro y Bronce.” Uh. yeeeeah. It’s listed for August 26, 9:55am and 5:00pm on channel 44 (the spanish channel)… maybe.
  • Backyard Olympics now officially formed August 20, 2004
    The brilliant post by Erik Maldre about how badminton should have more TV time has inspired the formation of a new olympics. An olympics that is based on the sports that everyone can play. The sports that reside in our…
  • The Yi-Gi-Oh movie experience August 19, 2004
    On the free wall at work there was a free movie pass to the Yu-Gi-Oh movie premeire. Surely I cannot pass this up. It was an interesting experience. Being in a dark movie theatre completely filled with kids. It was…
  • Whom have you forgotten? August 18, 2004
    It would be interesting find abandoned bicycles in the city and to place signs on them saying something like, “Whom have you forgotten” The rusty, beat up, lonely bicycle would be used as a metaphor for those that we have…
  • future posts on spudart.org August 17, 2004
    Here’s eight posts that will be appearing on spudart.org soon. √Ø Sock wrist fashions √Ø Mayor Daley causes power outage at Tribune Tower √Ø Talking on cell phone performance √Ø Big red streak across buildings like a photo √Ø Yu-gi-oh…
  • World and Olympic record set for Flying Whirly Hand Copter August 16, 2004
    Flying Whirly Hand Copter record This morning on the 14th floor of the Tribune Tower in Chicago, the world record was just set for the longest distance by a Whirly Flying Hand Copter plastic toy. Matt Maldre, sailed a Mini…
  • Aladdin DropZip and Fonts August 16, 2004
    If you are using a new version of DropZip (i’ve been using 8.0)… Let’s say you compress a bunch of files with fonts in it. When you go to uncompress the files, the fonts will be zero k. But if…
  • A Poem For the Joy of Your Feet August 13, 2004
    Such sheer joy should not be allowed. My feet are wrapped in essence of cloud. Walking along pleased and proud, A new pair of socks they were endowed.
  • Monster Lo-Carb Energy Drink spotted August 12, 2004
    Ouside the Wrigley Building construction on Michigan Avenue in Chicago:
  • Estonia in the 2004 Olympics August 12, 2004
    The kind folks over at Eesti spordi lehek¬∏ljed sent me an excel document with all the events that Estonia is participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. √Ø Excel document: Estonia 2004 Olympics (36k) √Ø PDF document: Estonia…

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