The Daily Parker

Too many interesting things to read today. I've got some time between work and Bel Canto to get through them:

• An astronomer thinks he knows the origin of the Wow! signal.
• A Chicagoist writer has crunched the numbers on Restaurant Week.
• Crain's looks at the new Illinois Cloud Tax and its effects on tech startups.
• Krugman shows, one more time, how much better things are now than at the beginning of Obama's presidency.
• Hanselman describes WallabyJS, a new JavaScript test runner.
• Jetbrains has developed a new cross-platform C# IDE.
• Paleontologists have discovered fossils from the K-T extinction event itself.
• Parking causes traffic. Seriously.

I have not read Bel Canto, though I understand it's loosely based on an actual historical event. I also haven't ever heard anything from composer Jimmy López before, since it only permiered last month. Friends who work for the Lyric tell me it's pretty good. I'll find out in a few hours.

I'm totally swamped today, so here are the things I haven't read yet:

• How smart people can believe crazy things (e.g., Ben Carson's crazy)
• What Miami is doing about rising sea levels
• Richard Florida explains how people choose where they live
• The agony of Lake Shore Drive will get worse before Thanksgiving
• ReSharper 10 has some bugs, including one that is getting in my way big time
• USCIS is no better at managing IT projects than anyone else
• How does American Airlines set its prices?
• Veterans react to the "Paid Patriotism" scandal in the NFL
• The Economist explains Bitcoin pretty well
• Flat design confuses people...permanently
• Yale apparently has a lot of fragile students who need protection from Halloween costumes

Twenty minutes until my next meeting.