On this day
August 21
11 items, across every year
2024 2 years ago
1 post
- Map your listening habits across the world
Ever wondered where the artists you listen to come from? Or if there are any good bands from Kazakhstan? There is a tool that takes all…
2019 7 years ago
1 post
- Making famous art into playable tiles in the museum store
Can Jackson Pollock paintings be displayed any which way? Upside-down, sideways? Sure, why not? Especially when the paintings are reproduced into two-inch magnets. The Art Institute…
2012 14 years ago
1 post
- Least Valuable Player for every year
I want to make a baseball card collection of every season’s Least Valuable Player. This list comes from High Heat Stats Lowest Non-Pitcher WAR (Baseball-Reference Version)…
2008 18 years ago
1 post
- Cost of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in LEGO
300,000 Lego bricks were used to create a 10ft by 26ft miniature city of the 2008 Beijing Olympics including the Bird Nest Stadium and the Water…
2007 19 years ago
2 posts
- ABC News crops Dennis Kucinich out of group photo
ABC News posted a photo of all the Democratic presidential candidates, but they cut Dennis Kucinich out of the photo! Before (with Dennis Kucinich) source: Yahoo…
- Futura Alternatives
The lower case j in Futura looks like crap, as unlikelymoose pointed out in his blog post, “Futura Book “j” stinks. However, Futura is such a…
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- AP Style Guide for State abbreviations makes no sense
I’m a newspaper designer that has to adhere to the AP Style Guide. Anytime a caption mentions a USA state location I have to use the…
2005 21 years ago
1 post
- Hardware store vacancy in downtown Chicago
At the end of 2003, Chicago lost all its toy stores downtown. Now there are no hardware stores downtown. I just found out that the Ace…
2003 23 years ago
3 posts
- Needed: Evelyn–“Partystarter”
I’m looking for the cd by Evelyn called “Partystarter”. There’s a few tracks that are good like, “Funny Bunny Boy” and “Moviestar.” Can’t seem to find…
- the bouncy ball on the train
It was funny to watch people on the Chicago elevated mass transit train watch a bouncy ball roll across the floor. It simply captivated everyone’s attention.…
- Water Beverage is good
Gatorade’s new Propel “Vitamin Enhanced Water Beverage” is completely not like what i expecting. I was thinking it was gonna be a really watered down flavor,…