Green Roof Growers “We’re growing heirloom vegetables on our respective rooftops in the City of Chicago using homemade *sub-irrigated planters* (SIPs) and commercially available Earthboxes™. We want to show other landless city residents how they can do the same.” (tags: chicago food blog gardening) DIYcity “Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
October 30th, 2008
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The Sneeze – The Great Pizza Orientation Test “They also offer a “NONE” option on all toppings. It’s even available on the “CHEESE” and “SAUCE” rows — so just to be a dick, I also ordered a 6-inch individual “NONE” pizza with BEEF (on the left).” (tags: food pizza dominos funny) There’s a Chicagoan running [...]
October 29th, 2008
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Yes We Can remix: Lee Dorsey’s funk classic meets Obama speech – Boing Boing “Make this land a better land than the world in which we live.” • “We are ready to take this country in a fundamentally different direction. That’s what’s happening in America today. Change is happening in America.” (tags: election_2008 barack_obama lee_dorsey [...]
October 28th, 2008
Conference of the Birds, 2008-10-28
The archive is back! As noted in on-air commentary, this show was a response to criticism that I start off too slowly in the morning, so I hit with a peppy number from Benin-born trumpter Ignace de Souza, and I think managed to keep up the tempo pretty well throughout. This was my first chance [...]
October 28th, 2008
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Op-Ed Contributor – Theodore Roosevelt on the 2008 Presidential Campaign – NYTimes.com Q. How will you feel if Sarah Palin is elected? A. I shall feel exactly the way a very small frog looks when it swallows a beetle the size of itself, with extremely stiff legs. (tags: election_2008 history theodore_roosevelt) Op-Ed Columnist – In [...]
October 26th, 2008
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YouTube – Wassup 2008 “Its been eight long years since the boys said wassup to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.” (tags: video election_2008) A Vision of Students Today [...]
October 25th, 2008
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Candyphile: The Best Underground Candy from All Over! “Lollyphile is now offering an underground candy railroad of monthly goodness. Final destination? Your house. Think wine of the month club, but less stuffy and not insano-expensive.” (tags: food candy delivered) Bid to create world’s largest sandwich in Iran fails after crowd eats it before it can [...]
October 24th, 2008
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Apps for Democracy – An Innovation Contest by iStrategyLabs for the DC Government and Beyond A $20,000 prize pool divvied up among a few different prizes and between independent and agency developers. (tags: opengovernment washingtonDC contest mashup) Share and Enjoy:
October 23rd, 2008
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Open Source » Blog Archive » Cass Sunstein: for the Homer Simpson in all of us “Cass Sunstein gives us the half-hour short course here on “the most exciting intellectual movement of the last thirty years” — behavioral economics. Behavioral economics is the demonstration that the “rational man” of neo-classical economics is in fact, predictably [...]
October 22nd, 2008
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Ex-Chicago cop Burge arrested in torture cases :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State ‘Flint Taylor, an attorney who has represented some of Burge’s alleged victims, said he was “extremely pleased and gratified that, so many years later, a U.S. attorney has made the move to indict the leader of the police torture ring. I [...]