On this day
March 14
16 items, across every year
2024 2 years ago
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- Collecting links in bios from Twitter
Is there a tool that will compile a list of all the websites from the Twitter profiles of everyone I follow?
2022 4 years ago
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- Fun with pi on Twitter
What if all the people who tweeted the first 280 digits of pi actually knew them by heart, and typed them in manually?
2021 5 years ago
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- Gamification of Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture is such an incredible resource. You can virtually explore through the galleries of art museums, view artwork up close, make your own…
2019 7 years ago
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- What features should Chicago Bean version 2.0 have?
I was just sitting on a bench in part of Millennium Park that is normally occupied by a giant family tent. Over the winter, the tent…
2018 8 years ago
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- Analysis of my six favorite cereals
Cereal, cereal, cereal. The standard quick meal not only for breakfast, but for any time of day! National Cereal Day was last week. Yeah, I’ve been…
2016 10 years ago
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- Chicago skyline from Riverwalk
The sun sets on Monday, two days after the Chicago River was dyed green for the St. Patrick’s Day festival. The Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and…
2015 11 years ago
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- A meaningful use of QR codes
An impressive show was put on by this year’s batch of BFA students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The expansive seventh floor…
2013 13 years ago
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- Insight into Google Reader
My favorite website and iphone app are being killed by Google. That would be Google Reader. Don’t know what Google Reader is? Or maybe you heard…
2012 14 years ago
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- New word: overload
word: overload definition: When something is so immensely cute, overload encompasses the object that is cute and the feeling of cute. The viewer becomes completely whelmed,…
2011 15 years ago
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- What secret things could these ninjas do?
If I buy 48 of these ninjas from the dollar store, what should I do with them? A few responses from the Spudart Facebook Fan Page:…
2008 18 years ago
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- It never gets above zero degrees in Antartica
The South Pole has not experienced an above zero temperature since January 13, 2002. Can you imagine? Never having temperatures above zero? You’d always have to…
2007 19 years ago
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- Baseball players chew Bazooka Joe gum
Bazooka Joe has a new blog where they have posted images of baseball players chewing Bazooka Joe gum. So far they have Freddy Sanchez of the…
2006 20 years ago
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- Power Point: power socket energy usage visualization
A special power socket called Power Point that tells you how much power is being consumed by that socket. It will show you how much power…
2005 21 years ago
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- Air pressure difference from altitudes shrinking a bottle
8300 feet was the elevation of the cabin we stayed at just outside Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Before leaving there, I put an empty…
2003 23 years ago
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- A movie outside my window
A movie is being filmed outside my window. As I was walking back to work from lunch, I checked it out. I stood with the production…
2002 24 years ago
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- Art museum for free
I went to Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art today. It’s only free on Tuesdays. Today being Thursday, you’re supposed to pay. When you pay, you get…