On this day
March 11
17 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Listening to new artists via WXAV
One of the underrated joys of college radio: discovering artists you’ve literally never heard before. I took a WXAV college radio playlist, turned it into Spotify,…
2024 2 years ago
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- I love it when websites write about street art that is not graffiti
Amen. I'm all for making public art that does not damage the public property.
2021 5 years ago
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- A rubber stamp with Munch’s “painted by a madman” graffiti phrase
Today I ordered a rubber stamp with Edvard Munch’s “painted by a madman” phrase. When he painted “The Scream”, the original artwork wasn’t received very well…
2019 7 years ago
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- New artwork every day as your Chrome’s homescreen.
Get a new painting every day as your browser’s homescreen. I love the Chrome add-on, Google Arts & Culture. They display quite a range of artwork…
2013 13 years ago
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- Starting now, everyone should learn how to program or code
Imagine our country if everyone knew how to program or code. I cover this topic on my publishing and syndication blog, “Programming should be taught in…
2011 15 years ago
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- Fake business card titles
I want to make up crazy fictional titles for myself and put them on business cards and drop them into fish bowls in restaurants. Any good…
2010 16 years ago
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- Song lyrics for “Jackin it up”
There is no song titled “Jackin it up” on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Quick! This song is just waiting to become a top 40 hit. The…
2009 17 years ago
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- World’s largest working cell phone gets pranked
Outside Tribune Tower in Chicago today is a promotion by Cricket Wireless and Samsung. I know this because I work on the 14th floor of the…
- Mountain Dew Monkey on Flickr
“Mountain Dew Monkey” recently added me as a contact on Flickr. What a great name! Can you imagine a monkey drinking Mountain Dew!?
2008 18 years ago
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- Music to play in the office
Dear offices that play music, What does your office play? My office plays no music, but it is interesting what other offices force their employees to…
2006 20 years ago
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- Order of alphabet by sides on keyboard
When you go in sequence of the alphabet from A to Z, and look at where the keys are on a standard QWERTY keyboard, there is…
2005 21 years ago
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- why is it cooler up on a mountain?
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).…
2004 22 years ago
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- Ripping PDFs #1
Inspired by Stuart’s doodle page, my blog will now be featuring doodles! Here’s the first one. Check out the medium scan, and the super huge scan.…
2003 23 years ago
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- new emoticons
Tom and i just perfected the “pothead” emoticon. *–`—] : ) Tom made his excellent death by chocolate cake today. it’s spongebob squarepants! [8^D]|]= to add…
- [8^D]
Two new emoticons developed through instant message today! pothead (it’s a flowerpot on top a smily)*–`—] : ) spongebob squarepants[8^D]|]= Check out how these wonderful ascii…
- 2-dollar bill
Everyone loves the two-dollar bill. It’s always a pleasant surprise to recieve one as change. And the joy of using at the cash register is immeasureable.…
2002 24 years ago
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- Tribune over Sun-Times
Another reason why the Tribune Company is superior over the Sun-Times. (both are competing newspapers in Chicago). This afternoon I got some Subway for lunch and…