Back to St. Patrick's Day just for a nice bit: photographer Anthony J. Stewart made this stop-motion video on how Chicago River was dyed in green in 2009:     Stewart has some remarkable photos of Chicago buildings too. It's intriguing how modern buildings give you an alienating…

"1 I, Patrick, a sinner, a most simple countryman, the least of all the faithful and most contemptible to many, had for father the deacon Calpurnius, son of the late Potitus, a priest, of the settlement [vicus] of Bannavem Taburniae; he had a small villa nearby where I was taken captive. I was…