January 2009
Super Bowl Shmuper Bowl, it’s called the Stupor Bowl!
“Are you an architect?” - Woman on the bus who recognized me from Solutions Twin Cities. “Why yes, yes I am an architect.”
(Psst - I’m not technically an architect.)
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It's Sidewalk Friday on Twin City Sidewalks →
Which means a bunch of awesome stuff from one of the funnest Twin Cities blogs I’ve found in a while. Be sure to check out Adam Levy (From the Honeydogs) and his daughter’s super cute song all about the Midtown Greenway on Almanac (click on The Bonny Clogs).
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Want to really stimulate the economy? Paying off... →
mediation:
omg yes, someone finally is taking up this cause. THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO GET THE ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK.
ZOMFG yes! I would stimulate the hell out of the economy if my student loans were paid off.
Introducing EverSave 1.0.1 →
cakeface:
EverSave is a clever tool which allows you to save all of your documents - if possible - in a specific time interval or by changing the frontmost application. This means no more data loss if applications crash.
Yup.
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Richard Cheese - Ice Ice Baby
So by now...
10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009 -... →
martoon:
“Social media” was the term du jour in 2008. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social...
Why was St. Paul a hotbed of gangster activity in...
Because John J. O’Connor, the city’s police chief, allowed it to be. He even encouraged it. From 1901-1934, the city operated under what O’Connor dubbed the “Layover Agreement,” later dubbed the “O’Connor Agreement”: Wanted criminals from all over the country were welcome to stay in St. Paul while they were on the lam, provided they: A. Told...
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Randy's 30 inch Pizza Challenge, A Primer.
1. So what does a 30 inch pizza look like?
See picture below.
2. That doesn’t look very big.
That photo is a sham. It was huge.
These photos are better.
3. How huge?
30 inches huge.
4. You’re not being very helpful.
A 30 inch pizza is about the size of four and a half 14 inch pizzas. This is the size of your standard large pizza.
5. Tell me about the challenge? Wut it...
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“The generation that sat in lines for gasoline at the pump in their 20s and 30s was the same that produced and consumed SUVs and pickup trucks as consumer vehicles to be used in daily commutes. The generation that was drafted into a ludicrous war in Vietnam that exemplified everything that was wrong with American military policy was the same that dropped our men and women into Iraq, continuing a...
About to eat 1/4 of a 30” diameter pizza live for Flak Radio. Get to The Ritz ASAP if you’re into that kind of thing.
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Remember the I’m Just Sayin’ Show game? From the...
Watchsouthtwelfth:
An animation on the 3rd Avenue bridge here in Minneapolis, courtesy of mediation.
Anyone know who this was?
Wow, that was great. I don’t know who put the show on, but that’s Peter Thompson at the end…
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WatchIncredible: The world’s most advanced prosthetic limb.
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Christopher Walken Interviews (an apparently... →
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Help a Tumbla out?
(John Dwyer at Solutions For The Other 90%)
I’ve been tumbling a bit recently about a competition (The Power of Us: Re-Imagine Media) that Troy and I just entered to win $25,000 in start-up capital for our non-profit Solutions Twin Cities.
Our concept is simple:
Changemakers around the world share a common drive to make the world a better place, but many have nowhere to physically...
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Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda →
(via sveden)
Go here and just look at what our President is doing. Just fucking look at it. There are so many things right about this.
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This weekend at the Art Shanties
Saturday
- Croquet tournament using hand-made wickets from artist Bill Gorcica, 11AM
- Gypsy-punk combo The Ex-Lovers in the Black Box Theater Shanty, 12 to 2PM
- An old-fashioned pageant of survival and warfare in the Imperial Transatlantic Expedition Shanty, 2PM
- Also on the ice: Bicycle Races & the recently-completed World’s Largest Cribbage Board Sunday
- The Brass...
Animal Collective - My Girls
(via...
Mass media opportunities tonight.
southtwelfth:
If you tune into Art Matters on KFAI 90.3 this evening at 7pm, you can listen to me mumble and mince for a few minutes about the Art Shanty Projects and Salon Saloon!
While in KFAI’s studios today, I ran into Dave Oppegaard, who will be reading from his new book The Suicide Collectors tonight — along with fellow S. 12th Ave. resident, fitness blogger and respected novelist Geoff...
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Popol Vuh - Aguirre II
Forget the amazing things...