On this day
March 5
12 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
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- Urban vs. suburban in the creative life
How does a change in environment shape the way we think and create? Can a suburban setting inspire creativity in the same way as an urban…
2024 2 years ago
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- Cool beards
Almost every day I load up around 100 tabs in my browser. One of the tabs is a search on Twitter for the phrase “Art Institute…
2013 13 years ago
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- Fun with ball bearings on a moving table
What happens when you put thousands of small ball bearings on a moving table? You get fascinating patterns of movement. (If you cannot see the video…
2012 14 years ago
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- Google the 66.249.71.43 is melting my server
Dear Google, You are fantastic, but can you seriously chill out on siphoning bandwidth from me? On an average day my server dishes out 6 GB…
2010 16 years ago
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- Tootin like a ballootin
Next time someone tells you, “I’m tootin like a ballotin,” you can respond with, “Yes, I appreciate your flatulence metaphorical reference to a deep decorative rectangular…
2009 17 years ago
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- What do you do when you explode a bag of chips in public?
(Above photo: The chips after they were picked up off the ground) Let’s say you are sitting in one of the world’s greatest public spaces on…
2008 18 years ago
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- Paintings with quotations
(painting by NAY) People love quotations. People love paintings. I want to make paintings of quotations. And not your typical inspirational-lala-poster type. But something real. Like…
2007 19 years ago
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- Holding a pen will make you think more analytically
Whatever you hold in your hands will influence whatever activity you are doing. When I’m reading a book with a pen in hand, I will read…
2006 20 years ago
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- Grape Branch Recipes
First off, what do you call that branch thing that the grape is attached to? Is is the grape branch or does it have a different…
2004 22 years ago
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- Detachable Hand
Draw a line around your wrist, and it looks like you can detach your hand (yeah, i got bored in our weekly production meeting).
2003 23 years ago
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- working late
stayed at work late to work on the mark bazer sell sheet. I’m concerned that i made it too distressed.
2002 24 years ago
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- I want to run for office in Chicago
My campaign would include:* Bringing a white castle downtown* Building more croquet courts* Instituting 2-hour lunches, and 2-month vacation minimums* Making Macintosh the official computer platform*…
