On this day
April 14
11 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
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- My video and photo featured in Geoffrey Baer’s WTTW Chicago lakefront documentary
My Obama victory footage from 2008 made it into Geoffrey Baer's Chicago Lakefront documentary on WTTW! My video captures the exact moment when victory was announced…
2022 4 years ago
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- eBay auctions related to your last name
An eBay search for my last name comes up with some fun results.
2015 11 years ago
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- What is Renzo Piano saying?
What would celebrated architect Renzo Piano be saying in this photo? He clearly looks excited to be sharing something.
2014 12 years ago
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- What happens when you make your photos available via Creative Commons license
Make a photo available via a Creative Commons license allows it to run wild free on the internet. You’ll never know what will happen. In 2007…
2011 15 years ago
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- Overlapping all the letters
I took every letter in the alphabet and overlapped them. It yielded an interesting result, as seen above with Helvetica Thin. Take a look at the…
2010 16 years ago
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- IDEA: Take a bouncy ball, attach a note saying, “Have some fun today”
Leave bouncy balls in public areas for people to have fun. Really push the message across by attaching a note. Here’s some ideas what the note…
2009 17 years ago
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- NEW WORD: super-fragglistic!
super-fragglistic definition: 1. Adjective. (to describe something that is really good). 2. Interjection. (used to express delight or happiness). example: as in, “Wow! This is super-fragglistic…
2008 18 years ago
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- How inanimate objects say “thank you”
Whenever you see a face in an inanimate object (like the one pictured above), they say “thank you.” But they actually say it, “mmmmmmma-mmmmmmmmo” It’s meant…
2006 20 years ago
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- Bleacher Bum hand stamps at Wrigley Field
The renovated bleachers at Wrigley Field now allow bleacher ticket holders to go to the non-bleacher parts of the park. They stamp your hand with a…
2005 21 years ago
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- Join my 2005 “Beat the Streak” league on MLB
The goal of Beat the Streak is to put together a hitting streak while making a run at baseball’s legendary hitting records. Choose one player every…
2002 24 years ago
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- soda pop innovation
I purchased a coca-cola from a vending machine in the Aurora, IL trainstation. And the thing plunked down sooo hard that it got all fizzy. I…