On this day
July 30
12 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Google Photos thinks my printed-out Illinois flag is quaint
Seven flags on my wish list: Macedonia, France, Chicago, Village of Glen Ellyn, Ireland, the EU, Finland. I own none of them. But I do own…
2025 1 year ago
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- Cutting up autographs into a drawing
Here’s a fun idea: take a bunch of autographs, cut the shapes apart, and move them around into a new drawing. The inspiration came from this…
2014 12 years ago
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- Secrets behind origin of Wrigley Building design revealed by mythical artist
Many of Chicago’s iconic buildings are white today, because of an unknown artist working today. This artist has managed to keep his identity relatively unknown for…
2013 13 years ago
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- Star Wars E-5, E-9, E-10, E-11
The E-11 BlasTech rifle. It’s the standard rifle for Stormtroppers. But why is it called E-11? Is there an E-10? Or an E-9? A look on…
2012 14 years ago
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- August 2012 new stamps in Maldre post office
Cherry Blossoms, choreographs, and bicycling joins the great selection of stamps that the Maldre post office offers. Need a unique stamp for a unique situation? I…
2008 18 years ago
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- IDEA: Etymology book of words coined in 20th century
I’d love to see all the words that have origins in the 20th century. All the entries would be sorted by year. Random House’s little online…
2007 19 years ago
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- What the world’s seven fastest supercomputers do
Why does one build a supercomputer with over 600 processors? Funnyhub looked at the world’s top seven supercomputers, and I’ll summarize the findings here: Four of…
2004 22 years ago
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- Designers doing research
The owner of IA Collaborative gave a talk for the AIGA on July 20, 2004. It’s a designer firm that strongly emphasizes designers doing research. Their…
2003 23 years ago
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- big boats in chicago
Today some of the big boats are coming down the river from the lake (but not beyond the michigan ave bridge). There aren’t enough parking spots…
- bazer site update templates finished
I finished the templates for the Mark Bazer website, and after work today, I’ll be showing Mark the files and how to update his site. I…
- Mark Bazer website
Mark Bazer writes a funny humor column. He liked the job that I did for his sell sheet, so he asked me to design his website.…
- UFO Shooting Camera
View this %%265-6561_IMG_400.jpg]image and answer this question: A) Does this toy shoot out discs that look like UFOs or B) Does this toy shoot discs at…