Author: DXO

  • Light Lunchtime Reading

    In case you’re wondering exactly what laws that a Water Department sewer boss is charged with breaking when he solicited signatures for Mayor Daley at work, go ahead and breeze through Chapter 2-156 of the Municipal Code. Stultifying.

  • Buy “Economics” With Google Checkout

    Today I was investigating Google Checkout for a client and I signed up for it as a test. Setting up an account is the usual easy user experience we’ve come to expect from Google. No fuss, no muss. I set up a “Buy Now” button for my book, Economics. Go ahead and “Buy Now”– $10. …

  • Famous in Europe

    So today there’s an article on AOL Germany about the bed jumping phenomenon called Bedjumping: Hüpfen bis die Betten krachen, which (according to Google Translate), means "Bedjumping: Hop to the beds crack". A picture of me is featured here with the ill-translated caption, "Attack on the killer mites. Only watches out! Where I fall down,…

  • Drive-Thru Launched by Gapers Block

    Right here.

  • Kevin on Chicago Tonight

    As re-told by Rachelle Bowden.