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Originally spotted at Deadspin, you absolutely must drop what you’re doing and head on over to ESPN.com, who’s got the video. It’s real. And frightening. (And, ultimately, even funnier than Mr. T’s ode to motherhood.) You’re welcome.

Wow, time sure flies with a newborn in the house and the busiest period yet at work. I’ll probably get back to normal by next week, there’s a ton going on I want to throw in my $.02. In the meantime, a few quick comments: The baby and her Mom are both doing great. Having…

Eric Zorn e-mailed me a couple weeks ago to participate in his popular month in review series, in which he surveys various Illinois bloggers for perspectives on which were the important stories of the month. With apologies to Eric (who, it should be noted, was warned this might happen), my suggestions are rather inwardly focused:…

Born this morning at 7:34am, Rebecca Adeline Klau: 6 pounds, 15 ounces and 19 inches long. Mom and baby are doing wonderfully, as soon as her oldest brother gets home from kindergarten, the boys get to go meet their new sister. Exciting times!

In anticipation of our upcoming arrival, I brought home a new Canon S2 IS digital camera. It’s not an SLR — those are still a bit pricey for my tastes, and I likely wouldn’t take full advantage anyway… I’ve been out of the camera saddle for too long, spoiled by years of point-and-shoot. This camera…

Erik Heels: “When I was a kid, my cat chewed up Tim McCarver’s baseball card. Smart cat.”

These days it’s old news to say that marketing is a conversation, and that companies who ignore the blogosphere do so at their peril. (See Jarvis, Jeff for more.) Along with several other co-workers at FeedBurner, I’ve made monitoring the blogosphere part of my routine, thanks largely to services like Technorati. By setting up saved…

gVisit.com is quite cool: insert a line of javascript in your website HTML, and it’ll spit out a Google mash-up of your website traffic against a map of the world. Here’s mine. Neat!

I’ve been following the Long or Short? blog for a few months now, and it’s absolutely hysterical.

My friend Bobby Clark gets some nice press in today’s Washington Post. Bobby’s the executive director at ProgressNow, whose website is geared towards organizing activists at the state and local level. This is exactly the kind of thing that is needed at a state level. Uptake has been slight so far, but I think they’re…