On this day
February 18
13 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Wrapped computer, unwrapped thoughts
I can’t stop thinking about a Christo print of a wrapped computer. It’s high-tech (for 1985), completely unusable, and somehow full of care.
2024 2 years ago
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- Art schools that teach laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing
How many art schools teach things like laser cutting, wood engraving, 3d printing, and plotter drawing? Basically, any computer-driven printing/plotting/etching. If I were in art school…
2021 5 years ago
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- The microphone on the Mars rover Perseverance is for sale
For the first time ever, a Mars rover will be recording the sounds of Mars. The rover named Perseverance has two microphones. One microphone is for…
2011 15 years ago
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- Top tweets of January 2011
If I ever threw my office computer out the window, I would attach a parachute to it, so it wouldn’t get damaged. 11:53 AM Jan 25th…
2010 16 years ago
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- The incredibly accurate time machine that jumps into the future
Let’s say you have an event one week from today that you really want to be at. Now you can jump to the future and be…
2009 17 years ago
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- I really like working in one of the world’s best public squares ever.
Pioneer court in Chicago on Michigan Avenue has been called one of the world’s best public squares in existence. Surrounded by great architecture on the south…
2008 18 years ago
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- A thankful homeless person
It’s gotta be really hard to be homeless and have to constantly ask for money or food all day long, only to have people reject you…
2006 20 years ago
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- Museum Plaza in Louisville: craziest building ever
Don’t even tell me that they are serious about building this. It will thrust 61 stories into the sky, a trio of towers that will dominate…
2003 23 years ago
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- 24
24 was good. The bomb wasn’t the real bomb! I shoulda seen that coming, because how else would they continue the show? But I was standing…
- overdue books
I realized that I have 9 books that are three weeks overdue. Crap. Good mood from ordering the powerbook is now over.
- Went to an art talk
February 18, School of the Art Institute president Tony Jones and Columbia College prexy Warrick Carter on “Memories of the Past and Dreams of the Future:…
- i did it!
i finally did it! I ordered the $1800 12″ powerbook off amazon! I knew I was gonna do this sooner or later. And since I found…
2002 24 years ago
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- 20:02, 20/02, 2002
an email from a friend: At 8.02pm on February 20, something will happen which has not occurred for 1,001 years and will never happen again. As…