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* Infomercial hell. Because all of your problems can be solved by any major credit card. Sorry, no CODs.

* If you serve our fried chicken for dinner, Robocop will jump out of the TV and steal your appliances.

* Nonsequitube.

3GS IT: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Tweetup – Watch the top videos of the week here

* A couple other Internet-related articles at the Telegraph: the oldest sites on the web, and the Wayback Machine oldest versions of some of the more popular sites.

* One thing the Internet didn’t kill: Scooter, the world’s tiniest dog. Complications from a broken leg killed him instead :’(

* A couple of silly articles on tattoos: Wackiest Tramp Stamps; Awful Obama Ink. If only I could find a way to combine my love for Helvetica with my love for our 40th and 44th presidents. Oh, and Kanye.

* Nonsequitube. I REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS IS

Good Witch of the West – MyVideo

* Shamelessly ripped from my earlier tweet: Someone’s looking to re-create Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The only day you can do it, of course, is the day of the Von Steuben Day Parade. Also, the Cubs have to play that day and you have to make sure to make it to the Art Institute before it closes at five. The Cubs game starts early, so that helps the cause.

* Oh, and deep fried butter. Yeah!

* Nonsequitube… yeah, I was lazy this time.

* A decent Cracked list: six oft-quoted “facts” about animals that are actually lies. St. Bernards will not offer you booze. Sorry.

* An even better list: the ten worst burger ideas ever, from the McDLT to Paula Deen’s answer to the Luther. I had no idea that Carl’s Jr. actually attempted the Good Morning Burger.

*Nonsequitube.

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 then, but it’s now the Chicago Hilton. (The Stevens who owned the Stevens Hotel before Hilton bought it had a son – this guy.)

01:21 The main Chicago Public Library seen here still stands as the Chicago Cultural Center. The main library is now housed in the Harold Washington Library Center, built in 1991.

01:26 The Wrigley Building hasn’t really changed.

01:37 Neither has the Shedd Aquarium. However, the road in front of it was rerouted to the south to create a large open parkland – the Museum Campus – between the aquarium, Field Museum and Adler Planetarium.

01:42 Apparently this is the period mentioned by Wikipedia where the Field Museum was temporarily renamed as the “Chicago Museum of Natural History.” The old, current name is much easier to say.

01:45 There’s one Chicago landmark that had a bit of a change (losing its landmark status in the process).

02:15 The Civic Opera House still stands, but it looked a lot dirtier in 1948. That’s a recurring theme here.

02:29 See what I mean? The Merchandise Mart today.

03:16 The Link Bridge, which carries Lake Shore Drive over the Chicago River, still stands.

04:13 This famous view hasn’t changed at all. (The Board of Trade Building was actually the city’s tallest building at the time of this film.)

04:33 Randolph Street is the theatre district today, but there was some serious decay between this film and now; some of the more popular theaters were seriously restored in the 1990s.

04:41 Old Heidelberg still exists, but it isn’t Old Heidelberg anymore.

04:50 The marquee (and the theater) are still the same, but everything around it’s changed. Note that the remnant of that sign on the side of the building is still there.

06:09 The Gold Coast is still gold, and Lake Shore Drive still has an outer and inner drive. Check out those old question-mark streetlights.

06:21 The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a popular hotspot in Chicago until the mid-sixties. The adjacent Edgewater apartment buildings still stand.

06:29 The Palmolive building later became known as the Playboy Building because the company moved its headquarters there. Nowadays, Wikipedia sez that Vince Vaughn and Lou Piniella live here. Together. [citation definitely needed]

07:19 Here you’ll see the Adler Planetarium. Nowadays it has a substantial addition on the end facing the lake.

07:37 How fitting – the Potter Palmer castle would be demolished only a few years later, replaced by… modern apartment buildings.

07:49 Same Water Tower, completely different surroundings. We’re a couple decades from the shift from State Street to Michigan Avenue as the city’s most popular shopping district.

08:08 The old stone gateway to the stockyards still exists. The stockyards would be closed in a quarter century.

08:22 The Palace of Fine Arts / Museum of Science and Industry today.

09:50 Obviously, the Buckingham Fountain is well known, decades before this.

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* One more thing: Google now has a patent on the thing that made it popular in the first place.

*And now for making it down this far, nonsequitube.