In Summer 2004, my friends and I worked at The Gallup Organization on a self-administered version of their employee engagement metric. You can check out a screenshot.

Here’s Summer 2005, and those Target commercials get running. You know the ones – you don’t actually get any information, but it shows this girl drawing on a piece of paper, and it says oddsagainst7even.com. After seeing that commercial for the 100th time, I finally checked it out. Whaddaya know! I guess we were leading a trend. But… since our product was never put into use, Target did it first. Oh well.

Technically, though, I think J. K. Rowling gets credited for the desk theme first. Her site is fun, though, because you can solve puzzles. Puzzles are fun.