On this day
June 4
16 items, across every year
2025 1 year ago
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- Eliminating the penny could cost American consumers $1.4 billion annually
Eliminating the penny saves the government $85M but could cost consumers $1.4 BILLION annually if businesses always round up. That's a 16-to-1 wealth transfer from your…
2024 2 years ago
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- Measuring the height of a badminton net
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I bought a year’s subscription to Peacock just so I could watch the Olympics. I watched the first three minutes…
2020 6 years ago
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- Bing says vintage apple crate labels are guerilla art
Bing has a very interesting interpretation for what “guerilla art” is. Do an image search on Bing for “guerilla art” and you’ll get a listing dominated…
2019 7 years ago
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- Learning one new foreign language word every day for a year
My method of learning new words in another language: repetition This is how I’m thinking of doing it: Method #1: repetition Have Google Translate translate an…
2014 12 years ago
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- 17 years ago I decided to use the name ‘spudart’ instead of ‘krankekunst’
The spudart name came from a problem most college graduates faced in the mid-1990s: losing your school email address after graduation. Email had just gained widespread…
2012 14 years ago
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- Length of Berlin Wall in Chicago
The Berlin Wall was 96 miles long. That’s longer than driving from Antioch to Joliet. Can you imagine if there was a wall that long built…
2011 15 years ago
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- Paper airplane from Chicago to Elmhurst
June 4, 2011
2010 16 years ago
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- AT&T has no system for taking customer suggestions to improve their service
————- Trying to help AT&T Normally I use around 100mb per month with my iPhone. Last month in May, it jumped up to 477mb. I haven’t…
2009 17 years ago
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- Tracking postal spammers
Whenever I sign up to get something in the mail for free, I like make up a middle name that is related to the product. For…
2008 18 years ago
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- New word: Kamino
New word: Kamino definition: to disappear Ok. Not so much a new word, as a new definition for an existing word. Kamino is the planet in…
2007 19 years ago
2 posts
- Recycle Hershey’s Kisses foil
If you have a candy jar at work with Hershey’s Kisses, you can make a little recycle box out of a sticky note, here’s an instructable…
- Umpire statistics: tendencies of Major League umpires
Most favored to road team: Mike Everitt (Road team wins 61.8% of the time) Most favored to home team: Tom Hallion (Home team wins 72.2% of…
2005 21 years ago
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- Discover your Jedi Name
In order to get your Jedi first name: 1) You must take the first 3 letters of your last name. 2) Then you must take the…
2003 23 years ago
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- King of Cork
Here’s a quickie little illustration I did for baseball’s new “King of Cork.”https://www.spudart.org/chicagocubs/sammy I say good for Sammy. It makes baseball more interesting. Coaches stealing signs,…
- top of the world
Matt: “at the top of the tribune tower yelling down at people”Kara: “on top of the world, looking down”Matt: “because we live on a globe, wherever…
2002 24 years ago
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- It’s copyrighted, not copywritten.
A funny thing at slashdot.org:Copyrights have to do with rights to restrict others from rewriting (copying) what one writes, not about the actual writing. I hope…