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Astral Checkout

I think the librarians at our local branch have been infected by the idea from TheFunTheory.com: that if you inject some fun into a drab but useful task you can alter the behavior of a community. Get more people to take the subway by turning the stairs into a piano keyboard, or make a park […]

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I Am My Own Grandpaw

We were talking about kids music this weekend with my sister-in-law and her husband, and playing some of our CDs, when Ralph’s rendition of I Am My Own Grandpa came on. Laughing about how we could never follow the chain of relationships, I thought “someday it would be interesting to sit down and chart it […]

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Rock band magnetic poetry

There was a great billboard campaign going on in Madison from one of the local radio stations, 105.1, who’s motto appears to be “We Play Everything.” To make their point, they have been rotating their billboards through sets of rock bands that they play, but in magnetic poetry style.

I could never remember to write down […]

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