Great restaurant, pity about the massive theft
The owners of one of the West Loop's hippest restaurants fled the country, leaving behind $1.5m in debts and judgments and nearly bankrupting the chef:One day last summer, sometime after Attila Gyulai...
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Stuff I didn't get to because I was doing my job today:Republican data analytics firm Deep Root Analytics stored 198 million U.S. voter records on an unsecured server, and guess what? Someone found...
View ArticleArticle round-up for Thursday
I really need some sleep. And some time to read all of these:Mark Bowden, writing in the latest issue of The Atlantic, explains why North Korea is the "worst problem on Earth".Jeet Heer writes in...
View ArticleStill too damn hot in Phoenix
Following up on last week, Ask the Pilot weighs in on exactly why the heat in Phoenix is grounding airplanes:Extreme heat affects planes in a few different ways. First, there are aerodynamic...
View ArticleCost disease
I've meant to write about this for a while. Economist William Baumol died on May 4th. Among other things he worked on, what interested me most in the Economist's obituary of him was his work on cost...
View ArticleOur most impressive weapon system is obsolete
Navies and naval strategy fascinate me. For 4,950 of the last 5,000 years, if you wanted to project military power fast and hard, you sent your navy. But even during the great naval battles of World...
View ArticleLunchtime link list
Among the browser windows I have open are these:An AI is getting inspirational posters horribly wrong...or is it?An 80-year-old woman wanted good luck on her flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou threw...
View ArticleThe women who broke Nazi codes
Via Bruce Schneier, Tech Republic tells the story of the women who worked at Bletchley Park during World War II:Because [Alan] Turing's individual achievements were so momentous, it's sometimes...
View ArticleGoogle's Project Zero for laypeople
Via Bruce Schneier (again), Fortune takes a look at Google's security project:Google officially formed Project Zero in 2014, but the group’s origins stretch back another five years. It often takes an...
View ArticleWhere most of us live
McMansionHell.com suffered a really bad week that had an awesomely good outcome thanks to the EFF. It's worth reading about. But last week, she published a great essay on the architectural styles (or...
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Happy 150th, OK?
The freest and most polite English-speaking nation on earth turned 150 today, and, being Canadian, the country isn't sure what that means:The year 2017 marks 150 years since Confederation. Or rather,...
View ArticleThe cost of climate change (and France's contribution)
Citylab has two complementary stories today. First, the bad news. A new study in Science shows that climate change will cost the southeast U.S. a lot more than the northeast:Overall, the paper finds...
View ArticleA small man gives a small speech in Poland
Looking back on speeches American presidents have made in Europe, James Fallows points out just how much President Trump diminished our country and its ideals when he spoke in Warsaw this week:When...
View ArticleCertified Independent Craft Beer?
A group of 800 breweries—including Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada—has joined an initiative to differentiate their brands from the big guys:The initiative, which was spearheaded by the trade group for...
View ArticleFriday afternoon link round-up
While I'm trying to figure out how to transfer one database to another, I'm putting these aside for later reading:Chicago Magazine thinks global warming could be worse for Illinois than previously...
View ArticleSemi-annual Chicago sunrise highlights table
...is now available. Don't worry, you haven't missed anything.
View ArticleMaybe someday the U.S. will catch up to Europe and Canada
Specifically today, I'm talking about chipped credit cards, which the rest of the world has had for years longer than we have, and they're a lot less annoying. Bloomberg's Ben Steverman explains...
View ArticleNot sure that's a bad thing...
I just saw a comment on a review site listing the following as a "con" for a particular Web-based product:I really feel like this company doesn't fix problems that only affect a couple of customers....
View ArticleEverything but the parents
A new apartment building called "Common Damen" is geared towards millennials who don't want to make commitments:All furnishings (beds, couches, etc.) are included in the rent, as well as utilities,...
View ArticleCould be worse. Will be worse.
Heading home from New York just now, and came across an infographic from today's Chicago Tribune about the weather in Chicago on this day in 1934. My heavens. After 21 days of 32°C-plus temperatures,...
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