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Go ahead, go to your secret places and gather up the fruits of May.

Nothing really. But I love Elgin trivia, and this one escaped my attention when the news came out a few years ago. It looks like Steve Jobs tried to patent the iPod interface, but was beaten to it by one John Platt, an Elgin native!
The company’s patent application, which lists Apple vice president […]

The New York Times published a couple of articles last week that relate to one of my recent posts about urban homesteading. One of the things I didn’t mention in that post about small-scale agriculture is that a lot of produce grown by backyard or small-lot farmers can be brought to market. According […]

Well that’s what Wikipedia says, and of course Wikipedia has never been known to lie, though occasionally it gets all the facts wrong. I’ll leave it up to Elgin Community College alumni to confirm or deny his enrollment (please comment).
Who is this guy anyway? Well, I think he’s better known in Korea than […]