Category: Noticed

This writer/activist argues that non-profits are no longer serving the greater good as a whole. i don't know I agree with the conclusion, but I've seen enough of the things...

Meg Ryan is marrying John Mellencamp? They should call it, "Megencamp".

Yes, it was 33 years ago, but damn! Queen's Live Aid performance at Wembley Stadium still gives me chills. Look at how Freddie Mercury pours everything into this 20 minute set.

Election Day was stressful for me, as I'm sure it was for many. So I just searched for some Slow TV on YouTube and let it run all day long....

I produce a podcast at work, The Smoke Filled Room, where two old Chicago political hacks, Victor Reyes and Mike Noonan, just riff on what's going on. It's fascinating, because...

Rolling Stone political reporter Matt Taibbi has a new book on Washington out, The Fairway, except he's putting it out in the form of a weekly email newsletter. Every non-fiction...

Kara Swisher is the awesome O.G. of tech writers. This week her publication, Recode, went through some changes, and another tech writer used the occasion to throw some shade. Kara hit...

A database of paper airplane designs. Choose the attributes you want, get step-by-step instructions along with a video on how to do it. What the internet does best.

The inventor of Little Free Libraries died recently. This creation is probably one of the biggest value adds to city life recently. It's a wonderful way to connect to, and...

Even when you win Powerball, there's a good chance you'll lose.

Justin Bieber must answer for his burrito habits.

A while ago I started posting pictures of bizarre food on Facebook, tagged #WouldYouEatThis. Now people post pictures of bizarre food on MY Facebook page so I don't have to....

If you're in news, or news biz-adjacent, like me, you've likely been trying to figure out how Civil's blockchain-will-save-journalism play is supposed to work. Their token auction ends this week...

This Russian viral video a friend with lots of Ukrainian ties forwarded to me is just plain freaky. It is so Russian and so good.

If you blinked, you missed NBC's wonderful 6 episode series, "Making It", sort of an American version of the British Baking Show, except amateurs craft amazing things and the hosts...

Although he never said, "there is no red or blue America", Barack Obama's 2004 Democratic Convention speech, conveyed the idea clearly, and it makes me wistful for a more innocent...

Although Michael Lewis' "The Fifth Risk" is about some big problems in government, it contains some great interviews with many career federal employees I used to work with at the U.S....

I made this roast chicken and bell peppers recipe twice last week. Easy, and super fall-like.

The American in London continues to cause a stir. Sometimes by just getting out of a car.

This is a BFD: Turns out Mayans had tens of thousands more structures than we thought, with millions more people living in the Yucatan a thousand years ago than originally...

Holy shit! That seal just hit a guy with an octopus!

I'm not excited about getting a new iPhone, but then the new XS camera seems amazing. This brief video, shot by "Crazy Rich Asians" director Jon M. Chu with a...

This handy (fake) video about how the internet works is perfect.

A documentary about all the crazy shit Bill Murray does is coming out.

Proving that English is a mashed up amalgam of many languages, it turns out there's a few letters that have been dropped from the alphabet over the centuries. Here's a...

One (kinda) anonymous sperm donor is responsible for 44 children. One of those children is trying to meet all of her biological siblings. A beautiful story.

These two amateur Cessna pilots decided to fly into O'Hare Airport and record it. Their diligence and attention to detail is a tribute to amateurism. It doesn't have to be...

This Weather Channel VR depiction of how bad hurricane flooding can get is amazing. I hope it changed some people's minds about sticking around the Carolina Coast this past week.

Three people I know have published really good books. Thor Hogan with a smart look at how fossil fuels built America and the steps we need to take to move...

This story of a B-2 Bomber mission ride along is amazing and terrifying in it's pure, antiseptic distribution of death.