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Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• That the neighborhood news site EveryBlock is coming back, starting tomorrow? —Ben Sachs
• That smartphone users are getting smarter? —Mara Shalhoup
• About Amazon’s “anticipatory shipping,” which will send you things you might want before you order them? —Brianna Wellen
• That the directors of Chicagoland, the forthcoming CNN documentary series on Rahm Emanuel—er, on Chicago government—asked their regular agency not to rep them for this show, to avoid a conflict of interest? (Their regular agency is headed by Rahm’s brother Ari.) —Steve Bogira
• That Quentin Tarantino’s new script was leaked online and now he’s very, very upset? (I bet it was Michael Madsen.) —Drew Hunt
• That the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will have an entry for “phat”? —Aimee Levitt
• That there’s a new women’s empowerment crowd-funding project on Indiegogo set up to counteract the controversial $10,000 bounty Jezebel put out for unretouched photos of Lena Dunham’s recent Vogue photo shoot? —Jessica Cohn
• That Warren Buffett is sponsoring a contest that will award $1 billion to anyone who picks a perfect bracket for the men’s NCAA basketball tournament? —Mick Dumke
• That bop kings Dlow and Lil Kemo performed “The Dlow Shuffle” on Fox 32‘s Good Day Chicago, and the hosts were awkward as hell? (Sample quote: “It’s way better than the Harlem Shuffle.”) —Leor Galil