* Knew of this before, but tweeted my way today: a beautiful travelogue of Chicago circa 1948. A lot of the Chicago you see here is still here and pretty much looks the same.

Some notes:
00:28 This railroad yard you see here is now Millennium Park.
00:56 The “Stevens Hotel” looks the same now as it did [...]

* Let’s start at Ben & Jerry’s changing the name of Chubby Hubby temporarily to Hubby Hubby in order to celebrate Vermont’s legalization of gay marriage. Gotta love that ambitious packaging.

* The California wildfires apparently claimed a famous filming location

* This song is ten years old. This song. is. ten. years. old.

* Na [...]

* The White Sox just dealt Jim Thome. I’m gonna miss Jim in Chicago. Nice guy.

* I’m in the “this looks awful” camp as I guess most are: IKEA’s decision to replace its proprietary Futura-variant typeface with it-came-with-the-computer Verdana. The retailer known for their classy branding scheme now looks like Sven’s Discount House of Furniture [...]

* Thinking about a new feature on the s(h)ite. I gotta think of some good sites. You’ll see it materialize soon (2012).

* C U T L E R

Although I hope Orton is okay. That sucks.

* I might finally bite the bullet and reboot my Twitter, the way this feature is going.

* Nonsequitube. This one’s not [...]

* Updated the Dead Pool!

*Short Daily today, so I’ll just mention Tammy Duckworth. I met her once. She’s a class act. Here she is getting back in the air for the first time after losing her legs in the Iraq war.

And here’s her story. She’s currently the assistant secretary of veterans’ affairs in the Obama [...]

* the volcano burrito isn’t really that spicy.

* Made a rather pointless trip to Madison and beyond today. Bought a Mega Millions ticket, didn’t win. Hey, why not?

* New Adult Swim schedule update:
- In October, running the 13 episodes of The Oblongs into the ground is replaced with running the 13 episodes of Stroker and [...]

* Dead pool update coming.

* You can no longer give your dog a C-section in Pennsylvania, unless you’re a vet. “Backup quarterback for the Eagles” != vet.

* Why are you doing The Batman Voice? Nobody does The Batman Voice but Batman.

* Aubrey O’Day will be making a major change to her outward daily appearance by [...]