Don’t ever write your name and address on a fifty dollar bill. It looks like someone was going to write their name and address on the back of a 50-dollar bill. This person was perhaps imagining that MAYBE someone might…
One of my goals this summer is to talk to the infamous “Walking Dude” in Chicago. What would be some good opening lines? I’m sure others have tried talking to him. Like that Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times, and…
This AP photo of a pilot cleaning the windshield to an airplane asks the question, do all pilots fly the same plane all the time? He’s taking such nice care of his window it seems like this is his baby…
Pocket bikes or mini motos are being banned in communities across America. It’s evident how they are dangerous, because they are so low to the ground, motorists may not see them. It shows how big our traveling has got in…
Upon seeing this photo of the 2005 American Idol contestants, I immediately thought that the dude with the long hair in front (Bo Bice) and the girl wearing orange (Vonzell Solomon) were a couple. It’s one thing when all the…
A color question someone asked me recently: What color are tennis balls? I replied “yellow green.” But some people reply “green yellow.” The debate is… when you describe a color using two words, where do you put the major color?…
8300 feet was the elevation of the cabin we stayed at just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Before leaving there, I put an empty plastic bottle with the cap screwed on tight inside my bag. Upon arriving at…
While I’m in Colorado right now, here’s a little moutain trivia. It gets 5∆ícelsius colder for every 1000 feet you go up (called the lapse rate). Actually we don’t directly get warm by the suns rays. The earth absorbs the…
Here’s an example: Hi there Bob, I hope all is well. When do you think I could get my yellow matter transmuter back? -matt It’s kinda funny when people put hypens before their name when signing an email. Why is…
Chicago certainly has a plethora of restaurants with Golden in their name. Which is always fun, because gold has nothing to do with the restaurant itself. * Gold silverware… goldenware? nope, standard stainless steel. * Gold coins for change? Nope,…
Here’s an email I sent to Quark: Subject: Quark’s events hey yo I’ma lookin at yo events page at: http://www.quark.com/about/events/ How come you don’t have no events for Quark in Chicago? Shy Town wants Quark conferences. Adobe InDesign is totally…
Source: “Moroccan Blue’ Leads Top Fashion Colors for Fall 2005” on creativepro.com And I made an illustrator file with the swatches if you want to import it into Adobe Illustrator. 2005colors_womensclothes_v8.zip
I’m wondering if anyone out there receives any sort of extra information/games/content on their cell phones. I have Verizon, and once I downloaded PacMan.
Stove, oven To this day, i still have a hard time discerning these two. The “ove” in both words is what probably gets me, plus the fact that the stove and oven are all in one unit. Colorado, Arizona It…
1) It’s interesting to see how commercials before a movie translate over onto the big screen. 2) It’s only two minutes of your time. If that two minutes will help the movie industry to make some more money, go…
Tribune Media Services, an innovative and entrepreneurial business unit of Tribune company, is the No. 1 supplier of television and movie information, reaching millions of consumers through thousands of customers. I did the information architecture/sitemap on this site along with…
Have you ever played Scrabble√Ü online? There’s a yahoo game called “Literati√¥”. It’s just like Scrabble. And it’s fun when you play someone online and both of you use the Scrabble WordFinder. At first you might say that is cheating,…
Does anyone know of any places that link to well-designed websites? Here’s a starting list: http://www.designinteract.com/sow http://www.howdesign.com/links/designfirms.asp http://www.linkdup.com http://www.coolhomepages.com http://www.moluv.com Please post any additional links in the comments below. Thanks.
Some observations about how the tickets sold. These is based solely on the Chicago Cubs website when they state “Tickets to the following games are no longer available or have scattered single seats.” To make this simple, I’m merely calling…
For the past seven seasons the Chicago Cubs are 1-7 for their season opener game. The one win came in 2003. But in their total history since 1876, they have won 57.3% of their opening day games Longest season opening…
Does anyone use the bebo address book system? You can send out a request to all your friends that you are updating your address book. Your friends go to a unique URL and enter their contact details. Once they enter…
Inspired by the link about the difference between a road, boulevard, etc; I put together a list of all the possible names for a street: ‚Ä¢ alley ‚Ä¢ artery ‚Ä¢ avenue ‚Ä¢ boulevard ‚Ä¢ byway ‚Ä¢ canal ‚Ä¢ channel ‚Ä¢…
One exclamation point said to the other, “HELLO!” Exclamation parties are always loud. The periods always call the cops on them and say, “we want the noise to stop. now.” Commas are like, “well, it can certainly continue some more.”…
Does anyone know of a program that can make sitemaps? For more details, please click on “comments” below.I want to take some plain text like this: And import the plain text into a program to create a sitemap something like…
Former A-TEAM star MR T has found a new purpose in life preaching Bible sermons on TV. The former pro-wrestler – real name LAURENCE TUREAUD – scored global fame as BOSCO ‘BA’ BARACUS in the hit 80s TV show about…
I just got xbox live a week or so ago. My username is: MegaSquirrel. I have Crimson Skies. I’m looking to get 2005 All-Star Baseball and Atari Anthology. I hope that the Anthology game lets you play Combat over the…
Here is the most complete list you will ever find for Design Competitions, Awards, and Deadlines. Over 56 competitions to make you happy (or sad). Here’s the link for the full list: https://www.spudart.org/blog/2005-design-competitions-awards-deadlines/If you have any corrections or extra competitions,…
UPS has those commercials, “What Brown Can Do For You”, trying to make “brown” and “UPS” synonymous. However, a Google search for “brown” only lists a UPS reference until result #566! Haha. In your face UPS. Brown is so not…
Amazing that Curt Shilling’s blood-stained sock is now in the hall of fame. It’s a testament to this pitcher’s courage. Here’s some tshirts being sold about it: The Real Red Sock √Ø Red Sox red sock enters Hall of Fame:…
