On this day
February 25
14 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Spiral tree
I walked in a spiral around a tree. It turned into something between a zen garden, a thumbprint, and a vinyl record.
2025 1 year ago
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- Why did this 1962 print enter a museum so quickly?
How does a brand-new artwork get into a museum? This 1962 print by Robert W. Mallary was added to @artinstitutechi’s collection almost instantly. What’s getting added…
2024 2 years ago
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- Basketball cards from the 1970s
Did you know there were basketball cards from the 1970s—and they certainly look like hey are from the 70s
2020 6 years ago
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- Don’t cut up the remix
When scrolling through Spotify, many remixes of songs aren’t all that great. I’m sorry, but in many cases I like the original more. Remixes often tend…
2009 17 years ago
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- My 5,000th bookmark on delicious.com
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…
2008 18 years ago
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- Cheapest Digital TV Converters: $49.87 and $59.99
At midnight on February 17, 2009, all full-power television stations in the United States will stop broadcasting in analog and switch to 100% digital broadcasting. You…
2006 20 years ago
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- Ozzie Guillen versus Shawon Dunston
Shawon Dunston of the Chicago Cubs and Ozzie Guillen of the Chicago White Sox both started their major league careers at shortshop in 1985. Both were…
2005 21 years ago
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- bebo address book
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…
2004 22 years ago
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- My favorite fonts
What are some of your favorite fonts? GOOD SANS SERIF FONTS: Franklin Gothic: hip lookin, despite the fact that one of our clients demands we use…
- steve bartman: sorry for him?
It’s been awhile since the Steve Bartman interfering with the foul ball in Game six of the Chicago Cubs playoffs. We should all have some good…
2003 23 years ago
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- goofballing
end of day at work, 4:55am. Dave our goofball copywriter comes over looking for trouble. He shoots his foam rocket at me. Dave picks up a…
- round tables
when was the last time you ate at a round table? It’s been awhile for me, it seems there are many more rectangular tables in our…
2002 24 years ago
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- really bad banner ad
there was blinking colors, “catch the monkey”, and now this…https://www.spudart.org/etc/banner
- I’m a regular now at the Burrito Palace
I just got back from my ritual trip sunday meal over at the Burrito Palace (3507 N. Halsted St., Chicago). Last time I went there, the…
