“It is a travesty that Chicago, America’s third-largest metropolis, lags so far in per-capita fish taco consumption.”

“This is a repackaging, for the iPhone Installer.app program, of this binary package for a different iPhone application installer program. I have also tweaked it a tiny bit.”

Rolling Meadows Park District is the modern home of legendary William B. Fosser’s Puppet Production

photos of people and their breakfasts

“[Saveur] so loves Chi-town, its editorial embrace is more of a wild, wet slobber than a polite peck on the cheek.”

“The class’s structure imitates that of YouTube, modeling its strengths and weaknesses. It is an inflexible structure that nevertheless supports a high degree of user creativity.”

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“Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats. Now your web site could really be your API with goodness of microformats and power o

“The Pharcyde were trying to dodge the bullets, not shoot them.”

“As these two forces have spread around the world, we have blurred their responsibilities, to the detriment of our democratic duties. Capitalism’s role is to increase the economic pie, nothing more.”

“For those of us who write for children, she was a gold standard, a symbol. She was an example of what one could accomplish without succumbing to the easy tropes and obvious forms of fantasy or young adult or science fiction.”

research on intellectual character, mindfulness, thinking dispositions, cultures of thinking, teaching for understanding, creativity in teaching, and the development of communities of practice.

“Verizon removed the offending ringtones, but according to sources grew angry when Chris Blackwell issued a statement claiming Verizon “ceded to the Marley family estate demands.” In response, Verizon added the ringtones back.”

“research by our group and others shows that people are often simply oblivious to situations that invite thinking.”

“The fucking cops got me and I had to follow them downstairs to get my bullshit summons. You seemed nice and I thought you were cute. You must be smart too, cause you got away from the goddamn police. Email me!”

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not me, nor anyone to whom I know I’m related, but good to know someone in the extended clan is expert on primate brains!

“Under Virginia State Law it is illegal to wear headphones,” he replied.

“I’m wearing the hands-free device that came with my iPhone,” I said, and I showed him my iPhone.

“5 students are apparently still relying on “Other” operating systems. I like to think there’s one person each running ProDOS, OS/2, TRS-DOS, AmigaOS, and the BeOS…”

“I’ve investigated persuasive technology at Stanford since 1993. I can say that during this year, in 2007, no other technology system has been more powerfully persuasive than Facebook.”

“i am happiest when i am little and wee. i am free to create, to learn, to be in awe of what’s right next to me. i spy shiny things left in closets, alleys, or memories, and tinker them back to life.”

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“life is too short to spend in standardisation committees arguing about XML schemas for dictating whose XML tags enclose whose.”

Review of Chicago’s new family of fancy-pants thin pizza (not old-school cracker-crust thin pizza)

“All Cheetos bags displayed on this blog were found in their natural habitat.”

“The Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance is holding a symposium in Chicago on cased meats: hot dogs, kielbasa and all varieties of wurst.”

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“I am asking if the REPRESENTATION OF A SOUND has ever become the ACTUAL NAME of a NON-AVIAN creature in various languages, like meow in Lao.”

“By being a WMMS listener, I was part of something bigger than me.”

“The whereabouts of Mr. Leonard and Kenny Clean are unknown.”

“Essentially the story of WMMS, Radio Daze captures the radio scene during the ’70s and ’80s, chronicling how this small FM rock station became the top-rated station in Northeast Ohio and made Cleveland one of the most important radio markets in the w

“Cedar Point also won the award for best new ride of 2007 for its Maverick coaster.”

“The Burrito Bracket is a competition to determine the best food and overall experience from among 19 cheap Mexican restaurants in Chicago’s Wicker Park and surrounding neighborhoods.”

“A lot of Evanston residents are going to be mighty disappointed if Barack Obama isn’t our nation’s next president. By a far larger margin than even the rest of his home state, Evanstonians have opened their wallets to the senator from Illinois.”

“I hear the metric system used more often in the United States than I hear the words “kibibyte” or “mebibyte” uttered by anyone with a straight face. Which is to say, never.”

“What started out as a desktop application for large corporations to find errors in large data sets, Strata is now a fully specialized browser that interacts directly with web data.”

“The project is set up as a series of participatory workshops that invite people to borrow a Bio Mapping device and go for a walk.”

“TrustPlus plans to make reputation portable by centrally collecting information about a person and displaying that information wherever he or she does business or interacts online.”

“The Miss McDonald project began as a Halloween costume created on October 30, 2004. Pictures of Miss McDonald in various mundane situations were taken, with the idea of posting them in an online journal.”

“When, the balloon pops, she’s totally going to have major hysterics. But she enjoys it so much, and eventually she has to learn that Shit Happens. So we’re letting her molest the balloons. Would a Good Parent protect her from the predictable explosio