We Have Jazz Cap

Thank you Extraface reader Gegen_you. You have ended the search for an obscure 80’s Wendy’s artifact called a “Jazz Cap” that began in February with a request from Melanie and led to various sources including Wikipedia, Metafilter, the Wendy’s customer information line, one of my favorite bands in Australia, and the open internet. Thanks to… Continue reading We Have Jazz Cap

You Turn Years, I Turn Athletes

Today, I am Larry Bird years old.* *This is part of a side project that’s still under construction. Thank goodness there was a Larry Bird photo there to properly reflect my age. If you’d like to contribute photos of athletes and/or encourage me to finish this thing up, drop me a line. A little bit… Continue reading You Turn Years, I Turn Athletes

The LaunchPad WordPress Theme As A Hipster Domain Holding Page

I haven’t made much progress in deciding on what to use as a hipster domain holding page system since I last wrote on the subject. In short, that’s some kind of page to use as a placeholder on all of those oh-so-clever URLs you’re stockpiling. Although I’ve had few deep thoughts in the interim, I… Continue reading The LaunchPad WordPress Theme As A Hipster Domain Holding Page

In Search Of: A Wendy’s Jazz Cap

Friend of Extraface Melanie has asked me to put the call out to all of you to see if anyone has information on a forgotten artifact from the fast food past. It was apparently called a “Jazz Cap,” and it was either sold or given away at Wendy’s restaurants. I have no recollection of it,… Continue reading In Search Of: A Wendy’s Jazz Cap

The Hipster Domain Holding Page

Judging by the We’re Not Really Squatting Facebook group and my informal polling, many of us buy up domains with the best intentions but leave them fallow for extended periods of time. We’ve all ran across plenty of intellect-offending domainer squatting pages like this one: And oh so many who offer in text at the… Continue reading The Hipster Domain Holding Page