On this day
August 19
12 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- Mosaic tiles are a great medium for depicting sharks
I thought someone had covered a beach rock with mosaic tiles just because. Then I learned the history behind this famous shark rock.
2024 2 years ago
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- Iron-tipped teeth and cicada mysteries
Animals with iron-tipped teeth? You bet! My brother found an article, “Komodo dragons have iron-tipped teeth, new study finds.” It got me thinking about a fascinating…
2019 7 years ago
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- Cobra Commander’s helmet is the #1 pencil sharpener on Amazon
The arch-enemy of G.I.Joe, Cobra Commander, is bent on world domination. And now there is a pencil sharpener in the shape of his helmet. X-ACTO, the…
2013 13 years ago
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- A phone conversation on double-mute
For fun, try having a phone conversation where both of the phones are on mute. Earlier today, I called up our Tribune Tech Support to fix…
2010 16 years ago
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- Flickr firsts, your flickr birthday, flickrversary
What is your first photo posted to flickr? Here’s all the first flickr photos of my flickr contacts: And my first photo on flickr: I like…
2009 17 years ago
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- Two Powermac G3 Towers combined into a supercomputer
My brother owns a blue and white PowerMac G3. I own the same computer. This model is basically useless now. Mine sits in my closet. Erik’s…
2008 18 years ago
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- Who can speak some German?
I’m wondering who of the regular spudart.org readers can speak a little bit of German? No reason. Just curious. Danke. If you ever took any classes…
2005 21 years ago
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- Buying hair products
Whenever I see someone buying hair products, I check out their hair. “oh they have beautiful hair, I’ll try their product.” or “oh boy, I’m sure…
2004 22 years ago
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- The Yi-Gi-Oh movie experience
On the free wall at work there was a free movie pass to the Yu-Gi-Oh movie premeire. Surely I cannot pass this up. It was an…
2003 23 years ago
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- organizing paper samples
I just finished organizing our paper samples cabinet at work. We have four lateral file drawers full of paper samples and paper swatch books. All the…
2002 24 years ago
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- geodesic dome home
I wonder what it is like to live in one of these dome things. This one looks really nice. This one looks like crap. You end…
- The Mockup Dance
Doing the doe-see-doewith my X-acto!