On this day
December 20
13 items, across every year
2018 8 years ago
1 post
- Yoga Kittens discovered at a grocery store
Your local grocery store is a discovery-land, full of many hidden treasures. Today I found such a gold mine. My wife Sarah has a Secret Santa…
2013 13 years ago
1 post
- 12 reasons to start the Christmas Stick tradition
Have problems with your Christmas tree? Consider a Christmas stick. Sound crazy? Yeah, it is, but I’ve been doing it for three years and I love…
2012 14 years ago
1 post
- Death Star Librarian
I tweet as the librarian on the Death Star, @atourriten. Come follow me, I tweet very little with that account, so you won’t get overload. Here’s…
2011 15 years ago
1 post
- English words with double-i
It seems like my Scrabble / Words with Friends rack always ends up multiple i’s. Does the letter i like to group together in herds? If…
2010 16 years ago
1 post
- Favicons of the top 500 websites of the world
The top 500 websites according to seomoz: [Updated on September 21, 2017. If the favicons are not loading, view a screenshot of all 500]
2007 19 years ago
1 post
- The original secret lyrics for “Silent Night”
Note in the literal English translation it says, “Blessed boy in curly hair.”
2006 20 years ago
1 post
- Wiffleball tournaments near Chicago, Illinois
Every year in early May and early september there are wiffleball tournaments in Sycamore, Illinois. Buttermaker informed me about these tournaments through a funny message on…
2005 21 years ago
2 posts
- Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life website
The website for the book “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life,” an Amazon Top 10 book in 2005. This site was designed using PHP and MySQL, so…
- 20 Reasons why the TV show “Deal Or No Deal” is exciting
The strategies of the “Deal or No Deal” producers used to make the game show more dramatic: 1) Dramatic Stage Host Howie Mandel stands in a…
2004 22 years ago
2 posts
- more links on spudart.org
I rediscovered the automatic bookmarklet that makes it a lot easier to add links to the link section on spudart.org. So you’ll be seeing much more…
- Leatrice’s Lessons: Part 4 of 4: Color Trends Lasting longer than they should
The movie Shrek brought out lime green. Normally, lime green would have died a long time ago, but thanks to the sequel of Shrek, lime green…
2003 23 years ago
1 post
- Why do phones have only one ear?
All home phones should be stereo phones. It’s so bizarre to be using only one ear.
2001 25 years ago
1 post
- What happened to Pepsi Clear?
Pepsi Clear also known as Crystal Pepsi and Crystal Clear Pepsi was a wonderful beverage back in the early 1990s. But it was only on the…
