Tech & Chicago (intersection of tags)

Delicious.com is a great online bookmarking service. Use it to bookmark all the cool sites you find, and then in the future when you are trying to remember the name of a site, BADDA-BING BADDA-BANG! You can find it easily.…

Everyone loves Trader Joes–the grocery store with fun food and delightful employees. Trader Joes even has a location request form on their website. Here’s my location request that I sent to them today: =================== Want to know the best new…

Gamasutra Podcast on GDC Radio by Tom Pubcast from The Brit and Yankee by Phil Clark and Lingo “I’m USBrit, and my co-host Lingo, are producing a magazine-style pubcast, creating a ‘virtual’ pub called The Brit and Yankee. At present,…

It would be great if there was some way to easily export the information for your flickr photos. I want to back up all my captions and tags. I’m alright with doing it manually since I only have about 100…

There’s a cool application on facebook called Baseball Trading Cards where you can collect and sell virtual cards for free. If you collect an entire team, you get a special Hall of Fame/Fan Favorite card. There are several of these…

There’s some funny smack talk on the Facebook Wrestler application. This blog post will be an archive of all the funny ones. Feel free to submit any to the comments. KEEP IT CLEAN. (I will delete anything that I don’t…

Print out cute photos from the internet and include them with your mail. Paying your credit card? Stick a hedgehog in with it. Submitting your student load payment? Slide a squirrel in the envelope. Sending in a rebate? That certainly…

What are your interests? Would you like to be notified of events in your city that matches your interests? Eventful.com has a TON of events. And you can create custom calendars based on a keyword. You can create custom calendars…

As Antartica experiences its summer season, Chicago gets hit with winter. Often it gets super cold in Chicago, and it makes me wonder if we ever get colder temperatures than Antartica. And I’m talking South Pole, Antartica. On January 18,…

I bought a winter jacket at the Water Tower Macy’s and had to carry it back to work down Michigan Avenue. I have to admit I felt pretty self-conscious about it, since most Chicagoans hate Macy’s for killing off Marshall…

There are so many great lists of places to go, and things to see. ‚Ä¢ 10 Most Magnificent Trees in the World ‚Ä¢ 100 Places To See Before You Die ‚Ä¢ Top 10 Most Peculiar Places in the World ‚Ä¢…

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…

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!

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…

*BOOOOM!* Lightning strikes literally right outside my living room window. The edges of my computer monitor change colors. Landline phone is dead. A couple days later the phone is still dead, so I called AT&T to set up a service…

The friends’ blogs list on the left column of the homepage has been updated. Here’s a little explanation about each blog. Angie O’Neal Fellow designer’s blog with neat links, ideas, rants and life. Updated every week or so. California, formerly…

Here’s the photo I submitted to “24 Hours of Flickr.” Please view the image on flickr and add it to your favs. I would like to get a high interestingness ranking, so you clicks and favs will help! Thank you!

I want to do video tape a series called “Feats of Amazement in Chicago.” Somersault the length of Tribune Tower If I had me a video camera, I would have someone tape me doing somersaults across the entire length of…

Professional voiceover artist, Larry Simon gave a talk on voice technique for the Chicago Area Podcasters Network at the Apple Store on November 7, 2006. Here’s some of my notes that I jotted down: Imagine your voice as an instrument.…

The Chicago podcast meetup group is having their first meeting at the Michigan Avenue Apple Store on Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 7:00pm. So far, 19 people have RSVP’ed “Yes.” You can sign-up at: http://podcasting.meetup.com/72/events/5061382/ (or you could just show…

The highlights from my croquet photo collection are now featured on flickr. Right now there are 24 photos up. To learn more about the Chicago Croquet of Squirearchy, go to our site at: www.chicagocroquet.com.

I’ve uploaded eight videos to YouTube, including this one named “Bear Left Flat Behind in Chicago“ You can see all my videos on my YouTube page.

When you go to Google Maps and look up the Chicago White Sox ballpark (U.S. Cellular Field), it looks like a toilet. How appropriate.

Podcasts are the hot new thing on the internet, so I grabbed chicagocast.com. Will I do anything with it? I dunno. Maybe I’ll sell it. Maybe I’ll do a weekly or monthly chicago podcast. Some ideas for the Chicago podcast:…

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…

Craigslist has been around for quite awhile, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized its power as a online classifieds bulletin board. I’m a member of a book club and we regularly get one or two new members every…

Here are domains that were previously registered, but their owners recently have not renewed their license, making them available for anyone to pick up. absolutchicago.com (deleted on 05-06-04) chicagocontest.com (deleted on 06-04-04) chicagobox.com (deleted on 04-27-04) chicagoportrait.com (deleted on 06-07-04)…

some eyeballs i made up when i was writing an email to a friend about the Chicago Tribune’s new 18-34 newspaper, RedEye: (.) (.) watching (o) (o) alert (O) (O) on caffiene (-) (-) sleepin (x) (x) dead (^) (^)…

Extreme croquet club in the Chicagoland area that is like 19th century meets WWE. Croquet has a rich history of being an extreme sport in the late 1800’s. This site plays on rich decorative elements and has a lot funny…