Category: Noticed

This guy sells onions on the internet. How he came to it is a beautiful story.

Most SNL monologues are bleh. But Eddie Murphy's from last weekend was amazing, if only for the Bill Cosby joke. Wait for it...

Did you know some old Warner Brother's Bugs Bunny cartoons are now in the public domain? Still great.

Daniel Kaye Hertz asks, what are the cliché Chicago stories? The responses are less example stories, and reasons why we don't have them.

A team from U Cal Berkeley conducted a study where they gave 13 people who already owned cars access to a chauffeured car for a week. As a result, the...

Inexplicably, some guy compiled a video of the opening sequences of the 28 new mid-season shows from 1979. It turns out to be a great time capsule of America. Most...

After a giant earthquake in 2006, Christchurch, New Zealand decided to empty out a part of the city originally built on marsh. Here's what a city looks like after the...

Back in 1904, St. Louis WAS THE PLACE. It not only hosted the Olympics, but also a World's Fair. If you've been there lately, it's hard to imagine St. Louis...

I was a huge fan of Everyblock, which endeavored to create neighborhood chat groups around the country. Facebook groups seemed to overtake that – except in places where Everyblock's successor,...

If you want to know how real Mexicans cook, check out this abuela's YouTube channel. Roosters in the background, loud rain on a steel roof, wood fired stove.

Hot Lava, a cool new game for the just-launched Apple Arcade has this incredible, hilarious opening sequence that skewers all the best/worst of 80's G.I. Joe cartoons.

Let's hear it for helicopters dragging giant buzzsaws!

Most people in or around the Saharan Desert don't have regular internet service. But they do have cell phones that can play music, so they tend to pass around songs...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's life habits are a closely guarded Russian state secret. But this Newsweek piece pulls back the curtain a bit to reveal a cold, boring, highly regulated...

Ringfit Adventure for Nintendo Switch is a real thing! But it seems a bit like shake weights to me.

"This generation is seeing with clear eyes that they are living through yet another existential crisis that threatens all life on Earth: a global climate emergency, and one that too...

Two Swiss tourists made a shot-for-shot reenactment of Homer Simpson's New Orleans food-gorging montage. This shows true commitment!

As messed up as the news business can be, now and then real truth tellers emerge, like Megan Greenwell who tells this all-too-common story on how her company, Gizmodo Media,...

Steve Carell, Reese Witherspoon, and Jennifer Garner are making one of Apple's first TV shows, The Morning Show, about the internal politics of a network morning show. Looks promising!

Schlitterbahn Water Parks are only in the deep South, and I've wanted to go one so bad for so long. And then there was a too-incredible-to-believe 17 story slide built...

Harry Backlund from the excellent news site, City Bureau, asks if news organizations are serving their communities well, by organizing news needs into a metric similar to Maslow's Heirarchy of...

By now you've probably heard about how "Old Town Road" has busted the Billboard Top 100 by maintaining its #1 position for 18 straight weeks, bypassing “One Sweet Day” by...

This guy collected dormant yeast from an ancient Egyptian tomb and is now making bread with it.

The Chicago River is still not...quite...clean. But there are folks pushing the envelope, like this guy who took a back dive off the Clark Street bridge and this guy who...

Social media isn't really my jam, and I really like surfing websites with vibrant editorial teams that want to make my neurons fire. So I've been really excited to discover...

As a palate cleanser, check out this octogenarian video of Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin punching out a conspiracy theory nut.

CNN has some explaining to do. This "randomly chosen" group of Republican women interviewed on CNNwho think Trump's hate speech isn't so bad, turned out to be an organized groupof Trump supporters.

Finland has basically gotten into the business of creating bizarre sports. Wife carrying, ant nest sitting, ice swimming. The New York Times has even sent a reporter over to figure...

In today's fast-paced world, what we need is this Gregorian chant generator.

Stay with me here: A pair of Italian beehive experts have designed a hive that's suited for urban apiary-enthusiasts with young families and is easy to harvest. Check out their...