Vote for your favorite video, maybe win cash!
Visitors to the Greater Des Moines Partnership website can vote for their favorite entry in the “Digital Do More Challenge,” and be entered in a random drawing for a $500 cash prize. The Digital Do More Challenge is a video contest which asked area residents to produce videos showing why they like to live and [...]
Benefit motorcycle ride 10-20-07
What a perfectly beautiful day on Saturday, 10/20! I spent the day participating in a benefit ride and pot luck supper for a friend who was in a motorcycle accident back in early September. Nearly 300 bikes and more than 500 people attended. If you were at the Downtown Farmer’s Market as it was wrapping up, you probably saw [...]
A bit of poetic injustice
Have you ever misplaced your cell phone and used another phone to dial your number, hoping your cell phone’s ring will give away its location? Yeah, me too. Well next time you try that trick, remember this poor guy - who got told to stop calling his own number - by the people who mugged [...]
Legal Tender in Liberia and Palau
We were watching a program on Court TV Sunday night and up popped a commercial for the “Corvette Dollar,” the latest release from the National Collector’s Mint. I’m assuming that these types of things have to be considered legal tender in some country to be marketed as “coins,” and whenever I see these commercials I look [...]
Curb-It Regatta deadline extended
Hey remember the Curb-It Regatta? The deadline for team entries has been extended to July 20! The MWA website has the details.
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Link love - literally!
Mike Sansone recently took time to construct this cool heart-shaped montage of pictures and logos of all the bloggers who wished him well during his recent illness. Mike is a good friend - I am thrilled he is back in the blogosphere - and it’s neat that his graphic represents “link love” in a very [...]
Prairie on the roof - Central Library green roof in bloom
Wow, did you see this Register item last week? The roof of the Central Library is full of blooming sedum - check it out!
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Pet peeve: donut “wedge eaters”
Look, you know you want the donut. We all want the donut. So just stop already with the “cutting off a little piece of the donut and leaving the rest in the box.”
For one thing, it’s dishonest. It says, “This person didn’t have the guts to admit they wanted the donut, so they tried to [...]
Rob Lowe… paging Rob Lowe…
Rob Lowe: You’re Needed in East DavenportEast Davenport, Iowa is having a problem with at least one blackbird aggressively defending the perimeter around its nest. The bird attacks people who walk past its tree (which is located near the entrance of a busy office building), protecting its young from human “predators.” Meanwhile, in West Des [...]
Must-haves for the Dad on your list
… assuming, of course, that he still goes around rehashing his alien abduction incident to anyone who will listen.
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