i follow
chicagoist.com, not only because they post a lot of local stuff i find relevant and useful to me, but because they also post about some pretty interesting things, like:
custom cereal. yes. a company called
[me] & goji offers a mail-order, made-to-order service to mix a custom cereal per your choices from about 50 different organic ingredients - and even offers gluten free choices. you start with a cereal base and you can add all kinds of dried fruit and other stuff to it . [
chicagoist.com's article] baconfest chicago '09. this is the mothership calling
sparky77 home!
baconfest looks like it's still in the planning stages, but they tentatively want to have this festival in october/november.
[chicagoist.com article] limoncello - do it yourself - sounds pretty interesting, and they posted a link to the orangecello.
[chicagoist.com article] i suggest you check out
http://pictureisunrelated.com/. they post the strangest pictures. sometimes they are a bit nsfw, but mostly you sit there and say to yourself: wtf?