It feels like fall outside today, which can only mean one things: it’s booyah season. Some of you are probably thinking, “WTF is booyah?” Long time St. Paul residents are probably most familiar with it locally. Generally, it’s a stew cooked prepared at community events as a fundraiser for churches, rec. centers and other affinity [...]
Here’s a rather typical example of feedback I’ve received to yellow pages returning videos: where I live you get fined for littering.? If everyone did that where I worked, I don’t think anyone would want to rent offices there, causing those landlords more problems in this economy. But thank, it looks like you really care [...]
I don’t know about you, but one thing I really miss when I click the print button on a newspaper website is the lack of ads. Thankfully, the StarTribune has solved this “problem” by serving full color ads within the print version. Large ads, like the ProFlowers one, appear near the bottom of each printed [...]
Comcast’s new “Domain Helper” is a service that serves up custom error pages when you mistype a domain name. For example, I typed in the nonexistant domain name, www.hwehresdfa.co, and was redirected to this page served by Comcast: At its best, the services like this try to determine what you may have been looking for [...]
R.E.M.O.V. (Remove Existing Marks of Vandalism) is a local group of people who take time to clean up tags that show up in the neighborhood. They get together around once a month to clean up new tags using free graffiti removal supplies provided by the city. Additionally, the group has set up a free Facebook [...]
The Other Mike and biked around a good chunk of Northern Minnesota last week with stops in Duluth, Little Marais, Ely, Virginia, Hibbing, and back to Duluth. One day that started out difficult and turned very cool over time was from Little Marais to Ely. Little Marais is around 10 miles up the North Short [...]
I’ve written previously about the marginal tribute to the Hamm’s Bear in downtown St. Paul, so imagine my surprise when I encountered this piece of Hamm’s awesomeness tucked away in the corner of the Good Ol’ Days Bar in Tower, MN: Now that is a tribute. Especially when compared to a tombstone. Here’s a closer [...]
Johnny Northside got his hands on lists of 107 properties owned by four people Johnny describes as “notorious North Minneapolis slumlord entities.” He provides the data on his blog in list form. I thought it would be fun to map it to help illustrate where these properties are. Here is a map of all 107 [...]
This is an impressive illustration of the value of print directories of telephone numbers in 2009: AT&T seeks to cut some 10 million White Pages phone books : Nation : TCPalm AT&T spokesman Don Sadler said in areas where the Yellow Pages-only delivery has been tried, an average of 1 percent of subscribers requested paper [...]
This past week, the Yellow Pages Association made a big deal out of the purchase of a domain name, yellowpagesoptout.com, that they redirected to print yellow pages directory contact information. The Yellow Pages Association press release stated: The Yellow Pages industry’s two leading associations announced today the launch of www.yellowpagesoptout.com to help consumers choose which [...]
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