June 25

With all the praising and glorifying of a metal object going on with the Stanley Cup, I wonder how much people realize our activities are rather…

Have a neighbor that is playing music too loud? Stand outside their window, 10 feet from the source, and measure the sound with a decibel meter.…

I want to go around and shake people’s hand at work and say, “Congratulations, today is National Handshake Day.” Actually what would be more fun is…

photo courtesy Library of Congress What if this was the regular road uniform for the 2008 Cubs? Goodbye red, white, and blue. Welcome pure charcoal gray.

On the south side of Chicago, my family would always sing a second part of the song Happy Birthday to You. First we would sing the…

Chicago was the first city to have a nationally recognized large-scale city-wide temporary public art exhibit with its cows in 1999. Other cities soon followed suit,…

Did you know that "smarmy" originally meant "smooth and sleek?" Discover the fascinating history behind this word and how it came to mean "ingratiating, unctuous."

GoLive is for the creative individual and Dreamweaver is for corporate cogs… Both web design programs Adobe GoLive and Macromeda Dreamweaver have windows that control a…

There’s this fantastic croquet sweater on ebay. It’s so hilarious. Check out the back of the sweater. The guy is in a very interesting position behind…

“…so I walk like I’m on a missioncuz that’s the way I groove.” I find that when I walk fast, I get more done in the…

I was doing some thinking about doing rubbings (placing a piece of paper up on a wall, rubbing a pencil or charcoal on the paper to…