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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.
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Little Free Libraries
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...
Powerball Loser
Even when you win Powerball, there's a good chance you'll lose.
Bieber Burrito
Justin Bieber must answer for his burrito habits.
Prepare To Be Dissatisfied This November
Here in the city of Chicago, there are few visual signs that a critical national election is less than two weeks away. Our six Congressmen and two Senators mirror the...
Saturday Morning Again
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMZ3Jn7hZow[/embedyt] When it comes to making videos, there's really nothing more fun than getting friends videos from around the world and then assembling them into one piece. Last week...
Clamdy Canes
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....
What Is Civil?
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...
Russian Viral Video
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.
I Hate Swimming, But I’ll Never Stop
[caption id="attachment_247" align="aligncenter" width="533"] The Welles Park pool in Chicago where I swim. In the summer, the walls slide aside to the open air. On winter mornings, sunlight streams in.[/caption]...
Making It
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...
Red Blue America
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...
Fifth Risk
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....
What Did You Do On Saturday Morning?
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIjM8m9O8U[/embedyt] Last week over a dozen friends sent me amazing videos from around the world to show what they were doing on their Saturdays. First, I want to say...
The End of Sympathy And Compromise
Embed from Getty Images I was raised in a decidedly left-wing family. My mother and father both marched on Washington in 1963 with Martin Luther King, Jr., and when I...