Sean Montgomery, Doctor of Nueroscience, is fasinated by biofeedback (the body’s external manifestation of thought, feeling, and status). [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Your body is constantly communicating with the outside world. Sean’s “Fashion Devices” take these communication (sweaty palms, heartbeats, and neural impulses) and makes a visual representation of them on hats, [...]
Wrote this post on December 28th, but didn’t have the gall to put it up. Then I saw my blog buddy Josh Hanagarne’s post on goals for 2009 and the success he has had with his list. So I decided, what the hell. Also, I am hoping the added pressure of putting this list in [...]
If you live in Illinois, today is the deadline to register to vote in the primaries. If you live in Illinois and want to vote but don’t want to go to some horrible bureaucratic hellhole simply print of the form you can get here and send it in today. Voting in primaries is especially important [...]
I recently gave a friend some advice that I realized I wasn’t following myself. I suggested that he start a writer’s journal. I used to keep one when I was in a creative writing class in high school. I liked it and it was helpful at the time, so I told him he ought to [...]
Whether we conform to them or rebel against them we’re all, in some ways, defined by our commitments. Family, work, and rent are some of the basic ones, but there are millions. Generally people think of commitments defining them in a negative way, living for the weekend, being tied to a horrible mortgage or job. [...]
I had planned to bring you most of the performances from the North and Clark dinner, but we had an audio video meltdown at the last minute. Luckily, my buddy Chris recorded a couple songs on his phone. The video quality leaves something to be desired but the music is what I really care about. [...]
Last week I outlined some rough ideas for generating more money for the CTA, this week I take those ideas more in depth. Coinstar and the CTA Card Coinstar is a great partner to grocery stores. They have machines that take change and (for a small percentage) return paper bills. It’s a device with low [...]
Chicago needs the CTA. A big part of what is good about this city has to do with how much of the city is always within reach. Besides the grid and size of the streets there is nothing that has as much to do with that as the public transportation. The city’s economy depends heavily [...]
The World Cup is being drawn right now. There has been much fuss about rankings and groups, so I decided to make my own rankings. Admittedly, I am just a casual fan, and I know a good deal more about the top ten and those teams that play here in the Americas than the bottom [...]
People love to talk about the democratizing power of the internet. They tell us that less expensive distribution and production, means more people can make music. We also heard that as the internet becomes more important than the radio we are coming to a time where everybody gets to vote. The problem is nobody votes. [...]
