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Contest: Threeeeeeeee! (and a prize, too)
September 28, 2009 – 2:36 PM | 36 Comments
Contest: Threeeeeeeee! (and a prize, too)

Wondering what in the hell is going on with all the gambling graphics?   Want to win a pre-contest mini-prize?   Hey, let’s address both these things.
So it’s like this: the amount of money I’ve …

Contest: Picture This
September 25, 2009 – 4:37 PM | 11 Comments
Contest: Picture This

Six days to go!
The contest is a team effort each year — it’s the awesome-iest part of the awesome.   This year, Mr. S and I would like the launch video to reflect that.   …

Contest: Loosest Slots In Town
September 24, 2009 – 11:57 AM | 17 Comments
Contest: Loosest Slots In Town

…Heh.
Not sure you can donate to the 2009 Tomato Nation/Donors Choose fund drive?   I understand; money’s pretty tight these days.
But one of the awesome things about Donors Choose is that you don’t have to …

Contest: It’s All Coming Together (Sort Of)
September 23, 2009 – 10:27 AM | 10 Comments
Contest: It’s All Coming Together (Sort Of)

Eight days until we get started!   I hope to have a prize list and some other information to share by the end of today, but it’s one of those duck days for me — …

Contest: 9 Days ‘Til Awesome
September 22, 2009 – 5:10 PM | 12 Comments
Contest: 9 Days ‘Til Awesome

October is nigh!   Awesome is imminent!   Eeee!
I’d still love more projects (email the URL or URLs to bunting at tomatonation dot com; please, no misspelled titles, or projects set to expire in the …

Contest ’09: It’s Coming
September 13, 2009 – 9:50 AM | 9 Comments

A few things I need before we get started on the ’09 contest:
1. project suggestions
Please send any and all projects for addition to the master list.I can’t promise that I’ll take them all, but I …

Yahoooooo-ooo-ooooo!
May 8, 2009 – 2:39 PM | 24 Comments

Thanks to all your donations in the TN Contest ’08, I got to meet Jerry Yang of Yahoo! yesterday.   Pictured: Jerry and I try to act natural while plotting world domination.
A big thank-you to …

Tomato Nation Goes To Washington: The Video
April 7, 2009 – 11:27 PM | 22 Comments

Yes, that guy really did yell, “C’mon, ketchup!”
Thanks to Mr. S for another fine effort in the footage-and-editing department — and of course to all of you for your extraordinary accomplishment.

DC Trip: Pix!
March 16, 2009 – 2:50 PM | 22 Comments
DC Trip: Pix!

The TN Flickr group is here; you can also see a more complete catalog — including my utterly graceless carousel dismount, and a few snaps in which I look 1) drunk and 2) about to …

Capitomato
March 15, 2009 – 1:17 AM | 17 Comments
Capitomato

Full update shortly, but here’s one to hold you (photo compliments of reader M.E.B.).   This is me in the No Child Left Behind hut in front of the Department of Education:

Thanks so much to …