ArcStonian Ryan Brown celebrated a productive Monday of programming by letting his coworkers decorate his desk!

Next time you make a run for the border don’t forget to bring along all the old decrepit cell phones from your junk drawer. As our rock-n-roll programmer Shawn demonstrates, recycling your old phones is easier than ordering two bean burritos.

Taco Bell’s new marketing slogan is “The only thing greener than our guacamole is our phone recycling bin.” Although catchy, I think “The only thing greener than our guacamole is any other restaurants guacamole” would be more accurate.

All joking aside, it’s nice to see big companies making an effort to help out the Earth, which has given so much to them.

Welcome to stimulus season. If you’re stumped for ideas, check out what your fellow Americans did with it on How I Spent My Stimulus. You can even add your own stimulus story…

See excerpt below. (Thanks for the tip, Pam.)

I helped a friend move some furniture this weekend. Up at 7:00 am! Earliest I’ve been up on a Saturday in several months.

Reed DeLapp spotted quite the photo opportunity near the IKEA furniture pick-up, and his iPhone came to the rescue. The quality of iPhone and Treo photos is quite impressive. I don’t think I would even attempt a photo like this with my Motorola Razr, and when these photo opps com along, it’s nice to be prepared (ask Nick Longtin if you’re not convinced).

Check out this tool!

One of my favorite days of the year. Endless possibilities for marketers, and so much fun.

Highlights in the ‘net-o-sphere today:

• If you’ve got a Google Docs account, sign in and open a new document. Under the file menu you should see an option for New Airplane. As Nick says, “Be careful. It’s in beta, so it may crash.”


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Today Wonderfile rolled out an exciting new feature which makes sharing groups of photos a snap. Simply upload photos, tag them, and share the tag.

You can also embed the share in a web page or blog, as I have done above with my “Fun With Photo Booth” series.

To learn more about our revolutionary file sharing tool, visit Wonderfile.net and sign up to be a beta tester.

And you can get it on eBay.

In case you are worried about imminent rifts in the space-time continuum, listen to the seller’s reassurances:

Please do not be alarmed, and we hope not to alarm anyone… But the Possibility of Time Travel Truly Exists…This is a True, Real, and Viable Time Travel Theory & Project. Logistics, Mapping and Methodology.Complete with Illustrations.

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Do you think it’s a joke, or is this guy serious?
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Looking for some computer equipment for that ‘webmaster’ in your life? In need of some downgrades for the office, perhaps? Check out these phenomenal deals this week at your local BIZMART, your one-stop shop for all of your hardware and software needs! Don’t let these specials pass by – A MUST SEE!

NOTE: ArcStone card shown to prove authenticity of photos.
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America’s obsession with all things gargantuan continues, and I will be here to document it. In this installment I highlight some food related items of truly ridiculous proportions.

64 Ounce Coffee Mug – that’s an entire pot of coffee, people, and at ninety-nine cents to fill it, it’s quite a value!

400-Inch Frying Pan – make omelettes for two hundred people, or a sixty pound pancake, or cook my five-year-old son whole.

120 lbs. of Treats – this has to be the biggest trick-or-treat bucket ever made. How is a kid even going to carry that around?

I love Halloween. It’s my favorite holiday. There are parties, decorations, candy, and it’s one of the few holidays where you aren’t obligated to spend time with extended family.

This year I decided to bring some holiday cheer into the office via a fake severed arm. When I laid eyes on it at the store I had to buy it, at only $4 this could very well be the best investment I have ever made. The arm has been moved about the office, popping up in unexpected places, giving my colleagues a chuckle or scare.

Send me a picture of how your office celebrates Halloween. I will post the most interesting pictures here on the 31st.