Wednesday Whimsy

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Tender moments with a stuffed rodent

    The more we’ve perused photos from Thinc Iowa 2012 the past couple of weeks, the more one thing has become abundantly clear: People love to love our resident spokesrodent, Analog the Prairie Dog. Like, people don’t just like Analog. They like like him. The little guy now transcends the status of mere homedog; he’s become…

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Meet Hank Snider, the Prairie Portrait prodigy

    As a general rule, we prefer that the Prairie Portrait interviews we publish — heck, all the interviews we publish — are, as they say in the biz, “not completely fabricated by someone other than their purported subject.” But in the case of Prairie Portrait prodigy Hank Snider, we find ourselves compelled to bend that…

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Bonus check? Nah, I’ll just jump from a plane.

    It’s not uncommon for people of the entrepreneurial set to pepper conversations with well-worn phrases like “taking the leap” into entrepreneurial venture or viewing a business “from 30,000 feet.” But at one Omaha company, those tired expressions have taken on new life. National Media Brands, a young business that makes products to help …

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Bobby Convey will now tout his teammates’ tweets

    As we’ve discussed before, there are lots of reasons that Sporting Kansas City is widely regarded as one the most technologically savvy outfits in all of professional sports Midfielder Bobby Convey is not one of those reasons. Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise has its own technology spinoff, Sporting Innovations, and a stadium, Livestrong Sporting…

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Archrival’s knife drop

    This post might fit better under a series titled Wednesday Queasy than our new occasional series Wednesday Whimsy. Archrival, a Lincoln-based youth marketing firm, has a knack for stregthening brands, building buzz and churning out award-winning designs. Now, it can add creating suspense to that list, as well. In a video posted on Friday, Archrival…

  • Wednesday Whimsy: OneLouder celebrates ‘loudest day ever’

    From rocking hairband-esque attire at the office to playing the same 83 minutes of film on loop all day, the guys and gals at OneLouder made sure their company lived up to its name on Friday, exceeding reasonable limits of dedication to a mock-rockumentary in observance of “National OneLouder Day.” The Kansas City-based developer of…