August 30, 2013 1:59 p.m.
This week, The Onion arrived at the Imaginary Landscape office to film a short segment for their website, "CEO Has Special Knack For Recognizing Great Ideas and Ruining Them." Featured in the film was Imaginary Landscape's own Jenn Sedik (Tara Callies), Dustin Lacewell (Jason Rutherford) and Joe Jasinski (Tim Williams).
"I saw an email sent by an Onion staffer asking if anyone could spare an office for filming and volunteered," said Brian Moloney, Managing Partner of Imaginary Landscape, "I might have had second thoughts if the title was 'Managing Partner Has Special Knack for Recognizing Great Ideas and Runing ...
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Updated 08/30/13 @ 01:59PM CDT by brian
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This week marks the opening of the Rolling Stones "50 Years of Satisfaction" exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
In conjunction with the exhibit, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has launched a fan-generated interactive exhibition encouraging fans to post photos and information about the band that will populate the exhibit, both in the museum as well as online.
Imaginary Landscape just launched the online portion of the exhibit at rockhall.com/fanexperience/ which will consolidate all the Twitter and Instagram posts containing the hashtag #rockhallsatisfaction onto a single online location. So ...
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Updated 05/23/13 @ 12:12PM CDT by brian
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As a small business, we are constantly looking for ways to make our employees feel valued and make Imaginary more attractive as a place to work.
Not too long ago and at the suggestion of Imaginary's Operating Partner, Ric Lee, we began researching a low cost, high value new benefit. Shortly thereafter, we implemented it.
Now, every Imaginary employee receives a free Netflix account.
So far, it's been a great success. It's relatively low cost and pretty much everyone participates. We prefer to have the company pay directly and avoid staff having to expense it. This leads ...
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Updated 05/25/11 @ 12:13PM CDT by brian
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February 02, 2010 10:33 a.m.
Recently I read that the current group of astronauts occupying the the International Space Station is direct Tweeting. Specifically Colonel T.J. Creamer is floating around up there and Tweeting when he can.
This morning as the Moloney family went through our get-ready-for-school/work routine, I was checking my Twitter feed. My 6 year old was over my shoulder and saw a Tweet from Colonel Creamer. Drawn by the NASA logo he asked, "What's that?"
I explained that Colonel Creamer was up in space inside the International Space Station. Because NOVA is an "allowed" television program at our house ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:31AM CDT by brian
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This Friday Star Trek opens. To honor its legacy we are making it a special day at Imaginary.
We are closing the office at 3pm and drinking Romulan Ale (aka beer, dyed blue...although someone might forget the dye). Then we are all transporting ourselves to the Metra and riding to Evanston, where we have tickets to the 4pm showing.
Sure, you can make fun of us - work that whole Trekkie (we prefer Trekker) stereotype, call us geeky. To those who would disrespect us in this way, I have but one question...
What will you be doing at 3pm on ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 10:51AM CDT by brian
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October 09, 2008 11:10 a.m.
Google Labs just released Mail Goggles, a special feature to give you pause before you drunkenly send a late night email you'll undoubtedly regret in the morning.
According to the Official Gmail Blog post:
When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?
The feature is only active during late nights and weekends.
Brilliant.
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:10AM CDT by brian
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Stephen Colbert is pretty funny and I enjoy his show for what it is - comedy. So imagine my surprise when I read that - among his overarching claims of self-importance - there is scientific truth to the phenomenon, "The Colbert Bump."
In fact, there is more than one scientific-ish study to indicate the reality of the Bump. Each one has pretty graphs to prove their scientific-ness.
One is from Mozilla. On his show, Steven Colbert made mention of the download frenzy of Firefox 3. Within two minutes of the mention, there it was - in all its graphical glory - the Bump ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:18AM CDT by brian
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I have Comcast at home for cable, connectivity and phone. For the most part, it works just fine. However, when it doesn't, I dread the call.
One time my toddler accidentally pressed a standby button on the front of the modem. Forty-five minutes of "off-shoring" later, they had to dispatch a truck. Luckily, I had a seasoned tech who took one look at the pattern of blinking lights and pressed the standby button again.
He took mercy on me by altering the paperwork so that I would not incur the hefty service charge related to "user error." I asked ...
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Updated 07/14/10 @ 11:21AM CDT by brian
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April 15, 2008 11:31 a.m.
Ever wonder what happens when an email gets lost or a Web site is unavailable?
Sure, there are the worldly explanations:
- Someone forgot to pay their hosting bill
- A truck ran into a power substation and blew the grid
- Someone fat-fingered the keyboard while logged in as root
If however, you eliminate all these reasons, one remains.
A black hole.
According to the University of Washington, there are a number of servers across the Internet - connected and accessible - that sometimes lose data for unexplainable reasons. These "black holes" are being mapped through a project called Hubble: Monitoring Internet Reachability in ...
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March 18, 2008 11:34 a.m.
No further commentary is needed.
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