Friends and associates, Spam is a fascinating phenomena of the internet world. It seems at first as though the spam which we encounter is so absurdly obvious that we, as intelligent people, would never fall for such things. It comes to us in vari...

Introduction Data analysis is one of my favorite faux-procrastinatory outputs at my real job because each book has so much juicy information to play with (ISBNs! Pub dates!). Since I made myself stay home all weekend, purportedly to force me to edit...

     First a warning: ****WARNING**** This proof has a lot of nudity and adult themes, so if you are offended by adult themes, skip this proof. OK, this is a long story. I started out doing this task not knowing how to get my hands on 1000 emai...

I set out for the afternoon with all of the tools to be as invisible as I can get: Baseball cap, brown jumpsuit, and a pen and clipboard. I headed to the big drug store and purchase some tape and WD-40. I splurged and got the fancy WD-40 with ...

For my course Art Since 1945, I have to write a formal analysis on a work of my choice from the collection of the St. Louis Art Museum. Saturday I went to choose my subject. But before I left I thought to grab this: self-adhesive red foam + ...

"You can't escape from your past" I guess those who say that are right. Even though I promised many a teacher I would visit them, after I left 5th grade I never returned to my elementary school. I wanted to put that section of my life beh...

The directions said I needed to play with my food. But the challenge was to play fair. People have a lot of advantages over food - there is a reason, after all, that we are at the top of most food chains. People are smart. We are social animals, an...

The You Change Coming Up With It Divination systems these days are all controlled by experts. You can't look up at the sky and figure out if Mercury's gone retrograde, and most people don't carry I Ching pieces on them. Tarot cards are portable and...

Mr. G. and Meredithian wanted to try out pole dancing... but where to find a pole? The local bus stop! Things we learned about pole dancing: Pole dancing is HARD! We looked at some moves and poses online, and picked a few things that looked pret...

Written by Myrna tha Minx: St. Louis was once the beer-brewing capital of America (it's still a major industry) for a very practical reason; the entire city is built upon a huge and complex system of natural caves. No other city on earth has as m...

From the moment I saw this task I knew I had to do it because Dream Boxes are one of my most favorite things. Granted, I had no idea what exactly a dream box was. But even so, I knew I loved them. I've got a thing for boxes, the way they creek when ...

For this task I shall navigate Champaign-Urbana, IL using XKCD's Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest. http://xkcd.com/256/ It clearly says "do not use for navigation," so this makes it an ideal choice for misuse of...

I don't know a lot about graphs, especially about how to generate them so this was very experimental and I still do not know if the outcome has any meaning or if it this was just a lovely waste of time. I started with creating a system how to classi...

In a few weeks the European football championship is gonna take place and this time it's gonna be here in Austria Unfortunatly thats also the only reason why our national team is qualified. To say it clearly: they suck. They didn't win a single game ...

WATCH THE VIDEO! don't ever let go from star5 on Vimeo. 5 of us were hanging out playing games for no-pants-day. we brought up the idea of tasking.. but what to do? star5 mentioned wanting to do this task, but how to make it more impressive than ju...

Not being an insect lover, I saw this as a chance to reconcile my distaste of them and try to REPENT! for the hundreds of insects I've brutally killed in my lifetime. So to build a place of worship, I must first understand the ways of the insect. Re...

Vixen came to visit! We had to go tasking, of course... Our tools were hands, coins, shadows and cameras. Our victims were statues, landmarks and people. Our method was forced perspective. By holding up coins and making shapes at various distan...