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Today we’re going to do round two of the band names show down and also illustrate 10 fantastic Monster Trucks.

Here’s the showdown MSPaint

you’ll notice I switched the format a bit. This new layout gives a setup that’s a bit more evenly matched. We’ll start with blue match # 1 and work our way to blue match #12. At that point we’ll switch over to sweet MSPaints of Sweet Monstertrucks.

Today will be a good day.

Today’s going to be a split between traveling adventure stories and exciting kitchen gadgets.

I’m not quite certain what the spread will be… whether we’ll have more kitchen gadgets, or travel stories… But it should be fun either way.

Some of the travel stories are pretty intense. One even includes sharks.

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Chris, though a late joiner to the 720 posts game, decided to do some mass contribution. Chris is a comic book fan and has put together a full day of posts that relate to comic book trivia.

Special thanks to Chris for all his efforts!!

It’s my Mom’s birthday!!! Today will be dedicated to fun little stories of my youth and how awesome my mom is. I love ya ma! You’re the best!

It’s Monday which means it’s Free Swim day. Actually, you’ll probably see a lot more free swim days now that we’re pushing towards the end of January. The fact that it’s January 21st and we haven’t missed any posts yet is pretty sweet. Thanks to everyone who has contributed so far. As a quick update, we’ve had over 500 posts at this point. 220 more should be cake. (should be?) though I suspect that this is the week where I will start severely eroding my post supply.

But! let’s keep pushing onward. Enjoy today’s mix!

Also, let me know what you think of that sweet Chtulu mspaint.

Sunday means poptarts friends.

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that over 90 lousy poptart flavors over the course of a month is excessive. Well, too bad.

Kurt has made all the posts for today, the 19th of January. Take it away Kurt!

So as most of you know the New Year brings along a slew of resolutions, proclamations, Power Teams, and many other and varied methods to improve yourself. There is a gold mine in Self help books for those people that aren’t satisfied with the way they currently perceive themselves. Now I’m extremely happy with where I am and how things are going in my life so I don’t need any of those things.
That was until last year in March as I was out spending some money on a bunch of new books to read. I usually end my shopping sprees in the humor books, cause who can’t use a good laugh? NO-ONE! Thats who. So I was rummaging and I found this book. This Book Will Change your Life . So I picked it up and didn’t even look at the inside, and purchased it. When I got home I started to leaf through it, and found it to be quite funny. Now there are 365 things to do, one each day of the year. The book is obviously making fun of all those self help books I previously mentioned, and I bet the author didn’t intend for anyone to really follow through with this. I thought it would be a fun little exercise to see if indeed this book would change my life. So I saved the book until this New Years to seriously read through it and actually do Everything that is in the book. So here goes….

Today we’re going to have a showdown of band names suggested by contributers to the 720 posts extravaganza. The will follow the basic single elimination system shown here.

Today we’ll have the initial show downs shown in dark red numbers. You’ll be able to vote for which name will proceed to the next round. A week from now we’ll have the blue showdowns. Unfortunately next week is going to be a little weird since I’ll basically have to post the day… as it passes. It’ll be an interesting test.

The end result will be the ultimate band name. Only one vote per person per round. Since I have to get 24 posts in today, round one will start right now. Enjoy!

Today is going to be super interactive.

I have recorded a bunch of different song pieces with my new PRS513 guitar. Your task is to identify the tunes. Some are alarmingly easy, others are really difficult. Not only because the songs are hard… but also because I play them poorly.

People who have lived in the same residence as me within the last year are not allowed to post answers because they probably already know all the songs that I can play.

At the time of posting this feature post, I only had 21 different rock riffs. That means there might be some pictures of my sweet guitar posted during the day too. We’ll see!

In any case, Good luck!

You’ve just experienced 20-something mike d hairstyles. And you probably thought it couldn’t get any better. Well, get ready. Today you’ll be witness to some of the best humor that came out of the 720 posts adventure.

Back in November when I took those photos, I shared them with Schenk. He then responded in kind with 24 different mustaches formed entirely out of electrical tape.

From ‘The Anchor’ to ‘The Zappa’ I think you will find many many laughs.

Enjoy!

I’d like to think that my hairstyle is iconic of my personality. While I’m not sure it’s true, my hair does have one unique characteristic.

When I’m over 20 hours or so since my last shampoo… I can mold it into whatever shape I want and it will stick.

Today you will be witness to a huge wealth of different pictures that I was able to generate on one particularly voluminous hair day.

Enjoy!

Welcome to the second edition of FreeSwim. As a reminder, FreeSwim is a day where you’re going to get a random collection of entries that don’t really fit anywhere else.

We’re going to start this free swim day off with an evolutionary showdown… so to speak.

Somehow, Schenk got his hands on some evolutionary data.

The following charts (I think there are seven) compare species in a battle royal of how many new species have been discovered within a certain period of time.

Let the games begin!!!

Wow. Tomorrow marks two weeks of nonstop posting.

Let’s celebrate with some more failed poptart flavors!!

Also, re-check out that awesome MSPaint. That sweet filling pixelation is heavenly!

Alrighty. Today’s posts will be focused entirely around travel. Most of us have done some degree of travel over our lives. Some of us (significantly) more than others. When we have the same destination over and over again it’s easy to grow comfortable with the airport terminals in various cities.

They say you’re traveling too much when you identify a city by its airport… well, let’s see who’s been traveling too much. Every hour today a new airline terminal map will appear. In the comments, take a guess as to what city it is. The answers will be posted sometime before the end of 720 posts.

Good luck!

Obviously, today is going to be filled with breakdancing videos and love stories. Specifically recaps of Tony and Paulette’s wedding and Alicia and Dwane’s wedding.

The breakdancing videos were more or less all found by Jesse. Thanks to Jesse for his sweet internet searching skillz.

Today is a special day.

Ryan Schenk has put tremendous effort forth in coming up with many quality Brevitous Gentleman’s Guides to things that we all need to know more about.

We’re also going to have a handful of spectacular MSPaints today. Tune in regularly! This one will be awesome.

So it’s January ninth. The month is rolling along and with it, 720 posts. At this point we’ve gone through 193 posts. Soon I’ll start running out of content. But first, let’s get some interesting facts on the table.

Today is going to start with a handful of interesting facts… I think. I can’t remember if I strayed from the interesting facts to put up some random stuff that people sent me. I’m not sure.

Either way, there are some good things to learn today. I think my favorite might be Irene’s contribution (1pm EST) or Theresa’s contribution (11am EST).

The end of today will be a bunch of songs that Alicia put together. They are totally intense and extremely awesome. These songs will be a perfect prefix to tomorrow which is a day that has had my laughing for weeks.

In addition to being Jes Saint’s birthday - HAPPY BIRTHDAY JES SAINT!

Today is a mix of entries. I had originally hoped that I’d be able to fill the day with unique cultural and artsy gems… but very few people responded to that challenge. Instead, it’s going to be a serious mix. We’ll start off with some culture stuff and a sweet MSPaint, then we’ll introduce a few more participants in this epic adventure, and we’ll end with a few fun video links and Shaun McQuaid’s Google Seeding.

Enjoy!

Welcome to Free Swim!

Free Swim is a day of nonsequitors. There may be small themes that run for a few hours, but nothing will continue on for an entire day.

The MSPaint feature image for this particular FreeSwim session is a shark wearing a top hat and suit.

Well, it’s Sunday. And as so few people visit the website on Sunday I’m going to use every Sunday in January to discuss failed poptart flavors in the Quickthoughts column.

You’ll also see this wicked awesome MSPaint image every time. I’m so proud of it. It took virtually no time, and while the text and ’speed lines’ could certainly be cleaned up a bit… the poptart looks pretty darn amazing.

Enjoy!

If you’re joining us late you can check out all the poptart flavors here.

Today’s web content is going to be populated with a bunch of pictures of reader’s favorite t-shirts. After a few from contributors, you’ll get a mighty sampling of my favorites.

Enjoy!

if you’re joining us late and want to check out all the t-shirts. Check them out here.

I asked some of the contributors to send me a word that they liked or appreciated along with its definition. Today’s theme is ‘cool words.’ If you hate vocabulary, you may just want to come back tomorrow.

If you’re joining us late today and want to see all the wordage at once, check out all the posts here.

Welcome to the day of Recipes.

Now, this might not seem awesome to you, but don’t you worry… there are some very good recipes lined up for today. In Particular, 2am, 3pm, and 4pm are pretty darn good. Special props to Theresa for saving the day and submitting about six recipes at the last minute.

Also, because I’m bad at math, you get a bonus post today. Neat? Or excessive?

In other news there are some funky things happening with the website. Maybe it can’t handle the excessive page loads… or perhaps it is just evolving with 720. Either way, if you see something weird feel free to fire me an e-mail and I’ll see what I can do.

Rock on,
Mike D.

Side note: if you’re joining us late and want to see all the recipes. click here.

Today you will be overwhelmed with be a wealth of Disney Haikus… but they aren’t really cutesy fun disney. In fact they are all kind of twisted. While some are kind of lame (the ones I wrote) there are others that are absolutely hilarious, so keep an eye out for them.

I was surprised. My mom was really good at coming up with warped Disney Haikus.

If you’re coming in late and want to read all the entries, click here.