On this day
October 25
10 items, across every year
2024 2 years ago
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- Spotify recommending a song I loved thirty years ago
Oh wow. I haven’t heard this song since college. “Who Dat Up Dere?” by Woody Herman. My Spotify DJ played this song for me today. If…
2019 7 years ago
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- Photographing with a five-year-old iPhone
Most times your five-year-old iPhone works just fine as a camera. Today, I stepped off my train, and I looked up, the sunset nearly knocked me…
2013 13 years ago
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- Today I saw a tree on fire
The sunlight hit just the red part of the tree blowing on the fire to give the blaze more life. The colors were saturated even more…
2012 14 years ago
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- The fu-fu game, aka two-letter-double-word ga-ga
Today’s fun game is to take the first two letters of a word and repeat it twice in a sentence. Today is th-th. [Today is thursday.]…
2011 15 years ago
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- Ten TV shows about art. All available online at blip.tv.
Blip.tv looks like it has some good tv shows about art. Here’s ten that I just hand-picked and added to my subscription. Fear No ARTDiscover the…
2010 16 years ago
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- New Macintosh iTable released at Lincoln Park Apple Store in Chicago
The plaza outside the new Apple Store in Chicago is aluminumly fantastic. It actually outshines the Apple Store itself. The store is essentially one long hallway.…
2007 19 years ago
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- IDEA: A program to find available custom phone numbers
Let’s say you want your new phone number to spell something specific. For instance, I want mine to be 778-3278 which spells SPUDART. Now I would…
2006 20 years ago
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- 2006 Illinois Election: issues and endorsements chart
We vote on Tuesday, November 7, 2006. There’s so much chatter on the news about the candidates, but all I want is a simple one-page chart…
2005 21 years ago
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- Demolition Derby in Chicago
Does anyone know of a Demolition derby in the Chicagoland area? There’s this calendar for the Demolition Derby Drivers Association (gotta love the URL “wecrash.com”), but…
2004 22 years ago
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- Piero’s Proses: Part 5 of 7: Computers
Part of his reaction to the question from the audience, “How have new tools like computers influenced the way you work?”: “You use pen as tool–fine.…