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Knowledge is Power

Google sits on top of a gold mine of information. They can essentially tap into our minds whenever we go online to learn something. They can see what we’re thinking. For example, check out their list of hot trends, which shows the top 100 fastest-rising search terms as of right now. For today, #24 is [...]

At Last!

I was lucky enough to attend Obama’s election night rally in Grant Park. It was both dull—I could have watched CNN at home, and that’s what I did for most of the rally—and awe-inspiring. How often does it happen that so many people come together to celebrate something other than a sports championship? The number [...]

Suckin’ it down

I’ve had a pretty set filing system for quite a few years. Bank statements, paid bills, and anything else more important than the average newspaper get filed in the appropriate slot in the cabinet. I’ve cleaned things out once or twice, but in general that just seems like more effort than its worth, so the [...]

Oh, that’s RICH!

I’m going to try very hard not to overload B&S with political crap—who really needs more of the stuff?—but this is just too good to pass up:

The Daily Show at it’s finest. The researchers on their team who come up with this stuff do great work.

Freedom

Lately I’ve been reading a history of Chicago, Chicago: Crossroads of American Enterprise1. It’s a popular history, published in 1944, and it follows the style and approach that you’d expect of a book of that vintage. The prose tends towards a purplish hue at times, and “man” is used as a synonym for “people.” But [...]