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How to Join a Social Network in 1998
The Mystery of Why Uber Gave Me 77 Free Rides (or, How I Accidentally Gamed The System)
How Postage Stamps Are Made
Sunday Magazine is back. With a twist!
Inventor Portrait: Alan Adler (AeroPress; Aerobie)
My Letter From Oliver Sacks
A short documentary about a street puppeteer, his craft, and an unconventional friendship
Idea: Pop Culture Twitter Lists
New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000
How Captain America Got His Stripes
House of Cards Season 2 Opening Credits Comparison in Animated GIFs
Idea: A sign at the top of Mt. Everest
Idea: A new automatic setting for cameras
Check out this creative teenage hip-hop artist in Nashville
Interview with me on the "Unprofessional" podcast
I wrote it, you made it: A Spoiler Tag
Idea: A Spoiler Tag
Idea: Content-Sensitive Transcription Formatting
HeadBlade Inventor Todd Greene
Douglas Engelbart (1925-2013)
Julie Brown and Charlie Brown
Idea: Person-based reminders
More From The Idea Dump Pile
I wrote it, you made it: Cartoons I Didn’t Draw
Idea: A Natural History T-Shirt
Idea: A Router Emergency Switch
Cell Phone Inventor Marty Cooper
More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About My Mac
An Inventor For Math And Magic Fans
The Invention of Long Island Iced Tea
The Gutenberg Eyebrow
Cartoons I Didn’t Draw
Idea: The Brown Family Portrait
Idea: Two Time Travel Movies Released In Real Time
Behind The Post: The Luke Hope Poster
Idea: Someone should start a tumblr.
Idea: The Movie Poster Alphabet
Idea: Zombies vs. Senior Citizens
Idea: Famous For 15 Minutes: The Movie
Idea: Purposely Mislabeled Bottles for Air Travel
Idea: The Exclamation Point Limiter!
Coming soon: An Idea Dump
Inventor Portrait: Esther Takeuchi
The First Software Patent
AMA?
Idea: A Plug-in That Throws Out the High and Low Score Reviews
Inventors Episode 2: Batter Blaster
Better than carpet that matches the drapes
"Inventors" series debuts with PBS Digital Studios
Idea: Text Supercuts
60 Seconds in the Life of a Weeble
How I Scored A Million Points In SpellTower [Guest Post]
Idea: Toddler TARDIS Console
Protect Abed
Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer, video game inventor, who turns 90 years old this week
Bob& Carol& Ted& Alice.
Idea: Add Thsrs to a Twitter App
I See The Millennium Falcon
#DearInventor
Keming Revisited
60 Seconds in the Life of a Dog
Idea: Vampire Victim Teething Toys
Idea: The @TwentyWords Retweeter
Neil Illusions
San Diego Comic Con 1988
Inventor Portrait: Ernest Nussbaum
100 Year Old Patriotic Song Revived for 4th of July
Three Drawings of Don Quixote
Idea: .ugh Top Level Domain
Thing Three and Thing Four
An interview in which all my secrets are revealed
Idea: Useless QR Codes
Best Construction Company Slogan Ever
Steven Sasson, Inventor of the Digital Camera
Idea: A New ‘Save’ Icon
I wrote an article for Slate.com
60 Seconds in the Life of Flare
Soylent Green is People Magazine!
Product Placement in Amazon Reviews for Related Products
I wrote it, you made it: The Make-out Hoodie
A 30-Year Contact Print on Construction Paper
Idea: The fab key.
Idea: Crowdfund a mission to put a monolith on the moon
A standpipe disguised as a rooster
Esoteric Comic #6
Another important poll
Idea: The uncanny valley as a plot element
60 Seconds in the Life of a Boat
This Hotel Has A Lot Of Rooms
What you’ve missed if you don’t read SundayMagazine.org
Idea: Make-out Hoodies
Mad Men Don’t Lie
Stop Moose and Squirrel
How much for lower case?
The Clavin
Animated Subway Tiles
The Best 3-D Experience I Ever Had
Idea: HBO vs HBO fighting game
Idea: The Inverse of the Guggenheim
Meet Brent Farley
Idea: Put a dishwasher in the bedroom
Idea: eBooks that watch you read
Announcing a new blog: SundayMagazine.org
Shower Poll
Idea: A new kind of volume control
Idea: The Email Abstract Field
They Don’t Make Computer Manuals Like They Used To
Esoteric Comic #5
Idea: The Russian Roulette Chair
60 Seconds in the Life of a Subway Window
Remaindered Ideas Part III
Esoteric Comic #4
I See Princess Leia
Radioactive Thread
The Manhattan Tongue Project
The Bulbdial Clock is now available!
60 Seconds in the Life of Thanksgiving
Inventor portrait gallery on Time.com
Actors you forgot were in Tim Burton movies
A scene from life rewritten as a scene from Curb Your Enthusiasm
Forensic Reconstruction of Famous Skulls of Fiction
Quiz: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica?
Esoteric Comic #3
The Variety of Rubber Mouse Noses
Idea: Anthony Michael Hall and Martha Stewart make an elephant lamp
Idea: Rename the Health Bill
Migraine Typing
The Google Voice Speed Dial Bookmarklet Generator
Idea: The Smiley as AP Copy Protection
Esoteric Comic #2
Inventors Tom and Jerry
Esoteric Comic #1
Animated Manhattan: Wonder Pets
Idea: The Outlet Wall
The Death of TV on the Radio
The blog post picture from beyond the grave
60 Seconds in the Life of Windows
Idea: Motion-detecting cell phone ringer
Post-it Note inventor watches Sticky Note Experiments
First Look: Citizen Kane 3D
I wrote it, you made it: The Bulbdial Clock
Idea: T-Shirts for Hairy-Chested Men
Idea: Not Your Usual Talking Dog Movie
Idea: Progressively Packed Produce
Top Thsrs Search Terms
Idea: The Blogosphere Adventure Game
Real Life Multitouch
I wrote it, you made it: Histoface
Coraline Box #40
I wrote it, you made it: A commercial
The Natural Cure For [Copy Goes Here]
I wrote it, you made it: Montris
First Line
The Breakfast Cereal Club
Idea: Noah’s Hand Everyday
Idea: Treadmill eBook Reader
Auto Industry FAIL
60 Seconds in the Life of a Mold Injection Machine
Why didn’t anybody tell me about Ovation TV?
At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Murder in the Hundred Acre Wood
Idea: Reboot the Terminator
Choose wisely.
60 Seconds in the Life of the Election Center
UPDATE: Skywalker "HOPE" Posters and Shirts are once again available
The November 4 Simulator
Announcing my new photography blog
I’d buy that logo for a dollar!
60 Seconds in the Life of a Webcrawler
In a political campaign far, far away…
Ow, My Eyes!
10 Lessons From the Movies
5 More Remainder Ideas
Idea: How I would do iPhone cut and paste
I See Darth Vader
Canada’s 1,968 foot wide movie
I see AT-AT walkers
Idea: Performance Enhanced Video Games
Ironic Sans in the New York Sun
Idea: Palindrome road trip
60 Seconds in the Life of a Tree
Idea: Thsrs, The Shorter Thesaurus
Idea: Electric Outlet 2.0
The Daily Show: As the World Turns
Idea: A giant Lego made out of Legos
Idea: A Bar in Silicon Valley
Idea: Corporate Artists in Residence
Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogeurs
A tree grows in Brooklyn Bridge Park
60 Seconds in the Life of Commuters
How bold can Darth Vader be?
Idea: Measuring cups that look like tiny pots
Googlyi: An iGoogle Theme
Happy Overpass
Video Store Clerk Game: A Crowd Wisdom Experiment
Idea: Tactile Feedback While Driving
Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
A photo of a tree
Idea: The Wikroll
Idea: The Bulbdial Clock
Animated Manhattan: G.I. Joe: The Movie
If you’re attending SXSW this weekend…
The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists
Idea: A new typography term
Idea: The last product Polaroid should make
Blogs: The Book
Idea: Scientist Valentines
Idea: Other Custom Islands
Humor in a Jugular Vein
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Propagandists
60 Seconds in the Life of a Humidifier
Glamour Mug Shots
Idea: The Gethuman Dialer Application
I see a Sandcrawler
Idea: Tetris one brick at a time
Animated Manhattan: Downtown
New Ironic Sans merch for the Holidays
Bookstore Befuddlement
Idea: Truly Crappy Statues
Siriusly?
60 Seconds in the Life of a Puddle
The Constitutionality of Storyboarding
Halloween on the Upper West Side
Interview: Art Binninger, the Ed Wood of 1970s stop-motion animated Star Trek parodies
Animated Manhattan: Casper the Friendly Ghost
Best book title ever
The Original Must See Movies Checklist
Reader takes Histogram Idea even further
Advertising on the overhead bin now a reality
Idea: The Histogram as the Image
Puzzle: Find the Hidden Picture
Book Trend: A Novel
Idea: Color Photos with the Game Boy Camera
Adam Rex Contest: The Winner
Adam Rex Contest: Vote for the winner
Contest: Win original Adam Rex artwork
Idea: Celebrity middle finger coat hooks
The Beetlejuice House
Discovered by PC Magazine
Animated Manhattan: TMNT
Dog Day Anniversary
60 Seconds in the Life of the Wonder Wheel
Idea: Give the boss a grade
Idea: Breed a "Mickey" Mouse
Photos from the Galapagos Islands
Bad Fake New Yorker Cartoons
60 Seconds in the Life of the Galapagos Islands
Top 5 Remainder Ideas
Terrorist organization logos
Idea: The Alien Stapler
She’s a vector girl. I’m a bitmap guy.
A new billboard in Times Square
The best and worst of The Economist
Idea: Lolcatvertisements
Idea: The Sensory Deprivation game
A Graphic Designer clears his name
New Delta ad campaign an in-joke for nerds?
Idea: The Hamburdog
Idea: You Say You Want An Evolution (T-Shirt)
Idea: "12" — a spinoff of "24" for kids
Basketball Court
Murmur at the poetry slam.
Interview: Morgan Taylor, creator of Gustafer Yellowgold
Idea: Uncensor the Internet with Greasemonkey
Crash into me
The best employee ever
"The Week" in review
Idea: The Digital Jewel Box
Animated Manhattan: Shortbus
New species of falcon named after Millennium Falcon
Idea: Develop an F-Bomb
Idea: The Kotter Family Tree
A mattress commercial I’d like to see
Joost Invitation Contest - Part II
Joost invitation contest - Part I
The fine print
Mauling Helena
Idea: Joost’s missing feature
Binder clip
50 States in 10 Minutes
George Bush and Jack Bauer
I see the Death Star
Libby Lewis on Lewis Libby
Idea: Simultain-O-Vision
Acknowledgements
Idea: An Orange Clockwork
Le Reve - The Blog
60 Seconds in the Life of Seagulls
"Dear Sophina" — An amazing follow-up to "The Astoria Notes"
Idea: Paintings of descriptions of the paintings
Idea: "CNN Fortune Cookie" Greasemonkey script
Every ad in Times Square
60 Seconds in the Life of Summer
The Astoria Notes
Have your own millionaire Picasso experience
Idea: Fun with facial recognition
Animated Manhattan: The Wild
Idea: Word balloons as quotation marks
Ironic Sans 2006 in Review
Celebrity Patents
I see R2-D2
Pointless Vandalism
Idea: A virtual slide projector
Receipts of Unusual Size
Idea: A "Flying Wiimotes" Screen Saver
A subway ad paradox
Animated Manhattan: Late Night With Conan O’Brien (Opening Credits)
The Burt Reynolds Museum
Idea: A building shaped like Godzilla
Those wacky Canadians
60 Seconds in the Life of Tae Kwan Do Class
Idea: Commemorative T-shirts for Fictional Events
By nobody who brought you Jurassic Park
A museum recommendation and a recommendation for the museum
Louise Brooks’ 100th Birthday
Idea: Use "apparent" when it’s not simply "alleged."
Interview: Louis Klein, audience member of nearly every episode of Saturday Night Live
What about Southbund?
Interview: Andrew Brody of the Princeton Review LSAT Podcast
60 Seconds in the Life of a Painting
When you need those photos in a rush
Idea: Another commercial I’d like to see
Designing Ironic Sans
Animated Manhattan: Red Garden
Running on Empty, Stopping at Studio 60
Idea: The Mr. T Virtual Playset
Idea: The Wii Workout
Marioteria
Idea: College Admissions reality show
Idea: Approve of more than just "this message."
But they already have their own chairs
Clean up in aisle two
Interview: Seetharaman Narayanan
Waterworld
Idea: Fiber Optic Streetlights
Six Feet Dahlia
Idea: "Hello My Name Is John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" name tag shirts
Idea: Dunder Mifflin branded paper
Amp’d Mobile’s "Li’l Bush" seems strangely familiar
Five years after 9/11/2001
Animated Manhattan: Oliver & Company
Idea: Pac-Man napkin holder with Ghost salt and pepper shakers
Idea: The iZod
Interview with Adam Rex, illustrator and author of "Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich"
60 Seconds in the Life of Rafa Nadal’s Shadow
Agassi vs. Pavel vs. Agassi vs. Pavel…
Thumbing through the dictionary
Idea: The "O Fortuna" Short Film Festival
60 Seconds in the Life of a Fly
Norbert Wiener slept here
Idea: "CSI: Drive Time"
Idea: Take "jowlers" to the next level
Idea: The Ant Desk
Plane in a Snake
The Day Lorenzo Music Died
60 Seconds in the Life of Clouds
Idea: Wear your DNA on your sleeve
A parallel istaverse
Animated Manhattan: An American Tail
Turn of the century racist jokebooks
Big Boggle box bears best board
Green means stop. Red means go.
Idea: A "Critical Thinking" section on the SAT
How one man sent one e-mail and took down my entire website. And he didn’t even know it.
The Art of 1010 WINS
Idea: A new slogan for New Jersey
Terrorism makes this ad special
The Eutats of Ytrebil.
Uma Thurman’s Severed Head
60 Seconds in the Life of Snow
Animated Manhattan: Madagascar
Idea: A new TV show gimmick
Idea: A new movie gimmick
Idea: A five dollar "skip" button on jukeboxes
Idea: Under-the-seat carry-on boarding first
You got your picture in my logo
60 Seconds in the Life of an Aquarium
Idea: Two functions in one button
Georgia O’Kleenex
Idea: A new mental disorder diagnosis
Idea: Lexidiem, the word of the day.
This cliché is dead. Long live this cliché!
Is that a Pepsi logo on that Coca-Cola product?
Remote Remake
Hot town. Summer in the city.
60 Seconds in the Life of the Apple Store Stairs
Idea: The Correlation Project
Animated Manhattan: The Critic
When Isamu Met Bucky
Idea: A parking lot compass
Random Acts of Emphasis
60 Seconds in the Life of Luggage
9/11 in 3D
CONS T ANT I NE
I see storm troopers.
Idea: A remake of "Fred Ott’s Sneeze"
Freaks stay at Marriott?
Animated Manhattan: Futurama
Idea: Another commercial I’d like to see
100,000 hits
Blog Name or Band Name?
The Google Maps Guide to Ghostbusters
Animated Manhattan: Fantasia 2000: "Rhapsody in Blue"
60 Seconds in the Life of a Wild Tail Pet Toy
60 Seconds in the Life of a Bear and Sea Captain
Museum store shop for is open inspiration!
H2O OTC
Boris Vallejo’s palette
Flaky Advertising
How Google Book Search saved the day
Animated Manhattan: Family Guy
Flat footed art
60 Seconds in the Life of Sea Lions
It’s like an Amazing Window that let’s you See Through a Wall!
The Chevy Bandwagon
60 Seconds in the Life of Landing Gear
Idea: The Pacifist Chess Set
Animated Manhattan: Tom & Jerry - Mouse in Manhattan
Idea: "Less is."
Idea: The Ishihara Triptych
Idea: "What’s your AIM Name?"
60 Seconds in the Life of a Staircase
60 Seconds in the Life of a Skater Boy
Idea: Design for a WTC Monument
Thanks for the hits
Lost in translation
Idea: Advertisements on the overhead bins
Animated Manhattan: The Simpsons
Idea: An album of Misirlou covers
Idea: A website for reviewing restaurants in airports
Idea: A poster for a dorm room.
60 Seconds in the Life of a Taxi Meter
Idea: Pre-pixelated clothes for Reality TV shows
Animated Manhattan: Sundae in New York
Watch "V" on-line for free!
The Hall of Fame Hall of Fame
Balabananza, the Convention for Bob Balaban Fans.
Original Wallace and Gromit only worth £6,000. Total.
60 Seconds in the Life of Escalators
Happy Pi Day
Animated Manhattan: Antz
Idea: A commercial for batteries
60 Seconds in the Life of Steam
Viral Life imitates Bad Art
They seemed so much happier as citizens
Lou Costello’s 100th Birthday
Animated Manhattan: Fritz the Cat
Michelangelo’s "David" meets David’s "George Bush"
60 Seconds in the Life of Laundry
Idea: Ironic Sans
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