I couldn’t go to bed last night, so I ended up trying this game out that I randomly found on the App Store called 94 Seconds. It’s a fast-paced trivia game where you are given one category and one letter of the alphabet and you have to name something that match the two criteria in [...]
If you’ve read this site for a while, you’ll know at least this: That I love stats on just about anything. I think I just like knowing random stuff about things and this new app I just came across called Sitegeist definitely fills that void in me. The app looks great because it’s designed by [...]
Humans Are Disgusting! Infographic from Aaron Rogers on Vimeo. Lots of interesting tidbits about the human body here.
The answer: They are emergency “Code Red” signals to alert police that the driver of the cab is in danger or feels threatened. I’ve always wondered what these little orange lights were because I see them on a lot of cabs but I never see them lit up! It’s like a panic button at a [...]
I was reading this post over at Vintage Children’s Books My Kids Love and came across something that I’ve never heard discussed about Calvin and Hobbes and its author Bill Watterson. It’s well-known that Bill Watterson didn’t like the idea of licensing his beloved comic book characters from Calvin and Hobbes out for merchandising sales. Over [...]
Photo from LoC, 1908 Ephemeral New York digs up this trivia gem about a small 5-story building sitting at the corner of Macy’s Herald Square in NYC. The building, which is located at 34th Street and Broadway holds a large Macy’s shopping bag at its rooftop but is actually not owned by Macy’s. It is [...]
