On this day
October 15
14 items, across every year
2026 earlier today
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- No longer be seen in the background of Chicago’s free classical concerts
My dream is shattered.
2025 1 year ago
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- Sidewalk soccer helps black walnut trees to survive
Ever kicked a black walnut down the sidewalk? Congrats, you're a seed dispersal agent! These golf ball-sized nuts seem designed for sidewalk soccer—and you're helping the…
2021 5 years ago
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- A giant pumpkin could be featured on the Illinois state quarter
Illinois is the #1 pumpkin producer in America. Let’s fill the state quarter with a giant pumpkin.
2020 6 years ago
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- Discovering podcasts from 14 years ago
Podcasting is a huge business these days, weighing in at $11.07 billion market value in 2020. Expected to grow to $60.50 billion in 2027. WOW! Long…
2018 8 years ago
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- Only 8 guerilla art videos on Youtube in the past year
Rather surprising there are only eight total guerilla art videos on Youtube in the past year. A few of them are about guerilla art, but most…
2010 16 years ago
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- Buying stickers online
Does anyone know of any fantastic websites that sell stickers for super duper cheap? My sticker file at work is getting quite low. I want to…
2009 17 years ago
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- The 10 funniest balloon boy jokes on twitter
Twitter has some funny quips about balloon boy, you can read the best ones selected at twitter.com/balloonboytweet. Here’s my ten favorite jokes about balloon boy, Falcon…
- Suggestions to Metra: blog links and conductor hats
The Metra train system in Chicago has a new website. It’s pretty nice. They have individual pages for each station with a little bit of info…
2008 18 years ago
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- Photography allowed in Chicago’s polling places?
The Polling Place Photo Project by the New York Times encourages Americans to photograph their polling place and submit their photos to their website. It sounds…
- How many reddit users will favorite a photo on flickr
Someone on reddit linked over to my Biden-Palin word cloud and gave me 4,400 visitors. Interesting that out of the 5,406 views (an addition 1,000 came…
2007 19 years ago
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- Movie Compatibility Test
How similiar is your taste in movies with your friends? This super cool new quiz asks you rate a bunch of movies, then it compares your…
2005 21 years ago
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- Sony Librie improvements
I’ve had my eye on the Sony Librie before it was released in Japan in March 2004. But it only had a Japanese operating system. Back…
2004 22 years ago
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- Word bubbles in public
What if inanimate objects could talk? What would they say?
2002 24 years ago
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- Twin questions
I’ve found that when I tell someone that I’m a twin, I get some typical questions: Are you identical? How far apart were you born? Can…