About 2 weeks ago, we opened a really cool exhibit here with some amazing really rare maps. It is the center piece of the Festival of Maps, here in Chicago.
NavTeq, one of the sponsors, set up this virtual tour online, for those of you unlucky ones who cannot come in person. Check it […]
Neil Schubin, Field Museum Provost and Associate Dean for Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at The University of Chicago, will be featured on this program tomorrow (Tuesday) night:
NOVA: Judgment Day: Intelligent Design On Trial
Airs Tuesday, November 13, at 8:00 pm on PBS (WTTW Channel 11 here in Chicago)
(Encore airing of this episode: Thursday, November 15 at […]
Oh man, it plays Quake. Now let’s wait for the 700Mhz auction in January to see the future of mobile communications.
While walking on the lake shore path near work a few weeks ago, I ran into my friend Zach biking north. He was out playing with a pinhole camera that he had just made, and took a couple of quick photographs of me at my most/least debonair.
Check them out:
I don’t know about everyone else, but I personally never use Wikipedia’s internally indexed search engine. Every time I have tried to search for something in the past, I rarely get meaningful results. For example, one major thing lacking is spelling correction and suggestion. If I want to look up the wikipedia […]
About a week ago, I was traveling down Ashland near where we live. We have a lot of new restaurants in our neighborhood, so we try to keep our eyes open for new things to try. I recently ate a Piccolo and Jerry’s, both of which I enjoyed. Neither experience prepared me […]
Saw this come across in a museumwide email today… it is happening the day after we open our brand new maps exhibit and sounds really fascinating.
I’m planning on being here for it, anyone else interested?
Check it out:
DARWIN AT THE FIELD MUSEUM: NOVEMBER 3, 2007
The Field Museum will host a one-day symposium on Darwin and his […]
So you want to install wireless into a 1,000,000+ square foot building built of extremely thick marble, concrete, miscellaneous metals, and numerous sorts of interfering (and moving) exhibit areas. What are your options?
Well, as far as I can tell, I have three primary ways to go after this. I have the full on […]
The second quarter numbers are in, and Manny Flores has raised a significant amount of money. He comes in 8th on the list, but every single person above him is an incumbent. He is completely dominating locally:
Manny Flores for Congress:
Beginning Cash On Hand: $0
Unitemized […]
