Sometimes, new products are fraudulent, and sometimes new products sound disgusting. Other times, they just seem kind of silly. Medea Vodka, a new "ultra-premium" Dutch spirit, is made with the finest winter wheat, distilled with natural artesian water and probably blown on by angels. However, the distinctive feature of Medea is the bottle. It offers the world's first programmable LED bottle. You can program up to 255 characters to display on the side, and the battery lasts for a year and is submersible, for when you're giving customized vodka to sharks and stingrays. more ›

A man from Zion, Illinois changed his name a second time over the weekend in a planned series of seven religious name changes. Born Steve Kreuscher, he first changed his name to In God We Trust in 2008, the official U.S. national motto passed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956. The Chicago Tribune reports now In God We Trust has now changed his name to “One Nation Under God.” more ›

Sometimes there are no words to properly introduce crazy. Sometimes you have to let it speak for itself. [via] more ›

Many moons ago, someone got the bright idea to make a sequel to the original Rudolph cartoon, only this one involved time travel, Baby New Year, and islands for each holiday. It was a hot mess in a good batshit crazy (read: if you're stoned) kind of way. In honor of tomorrow's holiday, here's the Independence Day island more ›

Just how crazy is this town? The Daily Beast ranked us in the middle of the pack, 26th out of 57 cities on their list of America's craziest cities. (Clearly they didn't take local politics into account). They calculated our craziness using various survey data about the number of psychiatrists per capita, emotional and mental health, drinking (where we tie with Denver for 14th), and a subjective barometer for overall eccentricity. more ›

You know what? I have no idea why I find this incredibly funny. Maybe it's the long weekend spent alternately stuffing myself with food and working on this here website. Maybe it's a lack of sleep. But whatever the case, I can't stop laughing at this crazy video. [via] more ›

For an estimated 45,000 runners, months of training will culminate with the 32nd running of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, which will begin at 7:30am in Grant Park Sunday morning. The 26.2 mile race snakes through 29 of our city's neighborhoods, from the Loop north to Wrigleyville; looping back south and west through University Village, Little Italy, Chinatown and Bridgeport; before hitting the finish line back in Grant Park. The urban course creates an amazing tour of Chicago for the runners, while also being spectator friendly: over 1.5 million people are expected to stand on the sidelines cheering on friends, family or strangers. The marathon website offers spectator info. While the past two years have seen high temps create problems for runners, this year's race forecast calls for cool and rainy, with a high of about 50 degrees. more ›

We have no idea if this is real or one of those digitally altered videos that are all the rage. Either way, it's still awesome. [via] more ›

The above picture is of 19,000 Gatorade bottles used to create a mosaic for an upcoming Gatorade commercial honoring Michael Jordan. The location is basketball court somewhere on the South Side. Looks pretty cool, no? You can read more about it over at Ball Don't Lie, one of the Yahoo! Sports blogs. [via Gapers Block]. more ›

Strange story coming from the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed (so take it with a grain of salt). It seems that while Patti was allowed to go to Costa Rica for that reality show, Blago's received a new offer of his own. William Kelly, host of CSN's "Sports-A-Holic," has allegedly offered Blago $10,000 to participate in a drag race. Yes, a drag race. We...would actually watch that on television (unlike Patti's rumble in the jungle). According to Sneed: more ›

If you were on I-90 near the northwest suburb of Hampshire last night, the traffic slow-down that lasted two hours was not from a traffic accident, rather it was from a patient who jumped from a moving ambulance while it was on the tollway. more ›