Category: Noticed

Facebook is a gangster organization. They've basically sold us all crack and we're too addicted to do anything when total scandals like this happen. 

This Fresh Prince of Bel-Air remake idea, in the form of a trailer, is fantastic. I hope cinematographer and director Morgan Cooper gets to make it.

Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago's South Loop is one of those places that curiously manages to be both authentic Chicago and a tourist trap. The New Yorker's David Remnick wrote an...

A good explainer, in comic form, on why Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is a terrible idea for president.

An oldie but goodie explainer on why you should hold your phone horizontally when shooting a video. Just do it!

A girl ran away from home in Baltimore at 14, then returned home 21 years later speaking Spanish and with kids of her own. Reunited, the family is struggling to...

Someone turned Star Wars: A New Hope into a giant infographic. I started this, and was lured in for half-an-hour. Prepare to scroll a lot.

I've mentioned him before, but if you're from Chicago, or just appreciate good politics journalism, join me to support Sean Raju's Patreon. He's producing a free video every week (now...

Everyone loves a good rocket launch, and this replay of Friday's SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral of an empty crew capsule going to the Space Station, and then the landing...

Russian go-karts on ice! Enough said.

The Chinese government is trying to cover up an impending economic and real estate crash that will make the American 2008 crash look tiny. Japan's Nikkei Asian Review does a...

I've keep this story open as a tab for two weeks now, trying to figure out how to talk about it. But, yes, Chicago was made great because it is...

I didn't know anything about metal fires until I saw this, but they seem scary as heck. Rule 1: Don't put water on them!

I always thought Weird Al's UHF was a bit too strange for me, but apparently when he shot the cult classic in Tulsa, he really left a great impression on...

It's an oldie but goodie: Jones Big Ass Truck Rental And Storage is still hilarious.

Watch this commercial. Yes, it's real. But it's kinda a prank on us, the viewers. Created by Rhett and Link, better known for Good Mythical Morning, it has all the...

White Wine pasta sauce is straight up, the easiest way to make yourself feel like a pro cook in no time. It tastes great and is easy AF. Take this...

I'm a huge Twitter fan, and I only hope the best for the company. But this interview with its founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey is disturbing in that Dorsey seems...

I just finished Daniel Kay Hertz' "The Battle of Lincoln Park", a remarkable book about Lincoln Park's gentrification and how it happened. I grew up the in the neighborhood, and this...

Did you know Aztecs had a "path-finding" philosophy, as opposed to most Western, "truth-finding" philosophies? Doing some other research for work, I stumbled on this and got totally lost. There was...

"Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why". This is the kind of shit that freaks the hell out of me. The earth's metal core is shifting...

Oath, the digital content behemoth  that used to be AOL and Huffington Post, was bought by Verizon a year ago and recently took a valuation write-down from $6 billion to...

Conversations With Tyler is amazing, in part because Tyler Cowen is an incredible polymath. But this conversation with fellow economist and polymath John Nye is mind-blowing.

Maureen Dowd writes this week of how political partisanship broke a relationship with one of her brothers, and how she worries politics might harm her connection to another. Since I...

Glamour magazine is going digital-only. They claim 2.2 million print subscribers, but don't think they can make it in print any more? Something here doesn't make sense to me.

Boots Riley's crazy, semi-distopian movie, Sorry To Bother You, about a hard luck telemarketer making it big, the realities of race in America, and the bizarre price he has to...

Bill Gates writes a hearty endorsement of HBO's Silicon Valley on his blog, saying, "If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley." His blog is great BTW. It...

An interesting group of writers are attempting to launch a new national news site, The Correspondent. They want to raise $2.5 million from subscriber before they launch next year. It...

Facebook, and the amount I use it, makes me uneasy. This NYT article has convinced me that it needs to be regulated, broken up in anti-trust, or both. If you...