Molly's site has looked the same for the four years I've been reading it. Then it changed today. She says the current look isn't permanent, so I guess I'll...
The lower concourse of the Hancock Tower (my place of employment here in Chicago), where I often pick up a soda for lunch, becomes overridden with tourists in...
It was high time, I figured, to rent this movie and see if Alec Baldwin could fill the able Mr. Conductor shoes of Ringo Starr and George Carlin. Did he pull...
I work in a regional office which only has eight regular employees and an intern for the summer. As the week drags on, it seems to take its toll. On Monday,...
My six months of free Showtime ran out the other day. The channels got turned off. Odd, I would have expected them to stay on and my monthly bill to jump $12....
I'm number 1 of 3300? It seems the Alaskan gravel industry isn't meeting its e-business potential. Let's get these search results back to their regularly...
But I finally got myself online today, which involved a complete on-the-sly diagnostic of the computer that they've left me at--I had to jimmy in the broken...
Durn, someone beat me to the punch. Of course, in my idea for the blog-gameshow, Changing Blogs, I planned to model the far superior Changing Rooms from the...
ATTENTION: TO GET TO WWW.HIPSMART.COM YOU MUST FIRST SEARCH GOOGLE FOR "DONKEY SEX" AND CLICK ON THE LINK TO HIPSMART (currently no. 7). Please format all you...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An asteroid the size of a soccer field whizzed by Earth at a distance much nearer than the Moon, the biggest such space rock in decades...
Again with the long URL. Grr. Federal agents and undergraduate hackers? Old news. As a sophomore at the University of Illinois, I remember the FBI and the...
Last night, walking home from work (I see a lot of stuff walking to and from work--gotta love the city), I encountered what was not so much a spelling or...
Now the real rockstars over at thinkpage can kick my butt (they're all playing the game, too). Note: there is a significant difference between playing a...
Panic in the streets of London. Panic in the streets of Birmingham. Hang the DJ, hang the DJ, hang the DJ. Two important aspects to a kick-ass action movie:...
For the second time in two months, I make an appearance in this magazine for hair salon owners. Take that, Ernie ! Ooow, did poor Ernie's article get cancelled...
I met R. working at the big sucky Q. The chesty H was just around the corner from the sucky Q. Now R. is applying to work at the chesty H. I've never been in...
Jeff from MN puts in a guest appearance on the Windy City blog SWYS, commenting on an earlier posting of a page from Seventeen magazine (you'll notice it...
This is a potentially useful piece of software for filling out paper forms: you scan in the document, fill in fields in the program, then print the fields onto...
At some point, I'll figure out the javascript to change the bright red "Upcoming Show" post heading to a duller colored "Past Show" once the date of the show...
HipSmart's code is a god-awful mess. The sheer massive number of includes tends to make it look cleaner, but the javascript is higgly-piggly all over the...
To the guys in The South of No North: I wish I wasn't too sick to see you guys rock. -- Posted by Erik Swedlund to music.hipsmart.com at 7/16/2002 4:47:36 PM...
In The Sixth Sense (1999) , M. Night Syamalan attempted to make a creepy, moody, scary movie. The creepiness and mood were there, but in the end the movie...
I was a genius. I had carefully crafted some code to work around the limited length of the Blogger Pro title field, which was routinely getting filled with the...
Uh oh! Jeff has figured me out: However, I have a feeling that "Who likes Kites?" is going to make a major move soon... it appears that Erik is brewing up some...
Thinkpage.net, a Minneapolis-based blog with strong Chicago ties, optioned right-hander Erik Swedlund today for an undisclosed sum. The mid-season move comes...
Or at least it should have. What the heck, though, I'm always willing to propagate banality. My question: are blogs rated hot because they look good or because...
At the top of one set of stairs from the southbound platform of the Red Line's Chicago Avenue stop on the el, there is a chain that can be extended to block...
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