Lede: When a House has a History

Barbra Streisand once paid $176,000 for its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed desk. A wealthy media heir was once kidnapped there and buried alive. On Tuesday, a pair of leaded-glass windows, which were removed from its dining room sideboard years ago, sold for $15,000 at Christie’s art auction house in New York City.

Like other storied Wright homes, the B. Harley Bradley House in Kankakee (left) has had brushes with celebrity and tragedy. Now, after decades of painstaking restoration carried out by a series of owners, a University of Illinois architecture professor and his wife want to turn the house over to local activists who envision transforming the grand but little-known home into a house museum and arts education center.

Chicago Tribune

The Greatest Super Bowl Ads on Earth

As a service to the soldiers deployed overseas, the Armed Forces Network broadcasts the Super Bowl and apparently every year, they field complaints because the programming is sans commercials.

This year, AFN decided to do something different, so they invited viewers to submit their own commercials, some of which were broadcast during the game and all 150 are preserved on YouTube.

A random sampling shows that there's just too many to judge in one sitting and thus far, there hasn't been a lot of voting.

Needless to say, the "Indiana Jones" commercial and the sarcastic one about "age-appropriate" PSAs during Hannah Montana, which were mentioned in the Stars & Stripes article are fun. The elementary kids singing about a parent deployed is super cute, plus there are several zombies, a lot of location, service or situational-specific, along with a few pop culture references.

I started this post wanting to find one to embed.

I'm sure the following is a valuable message and it's produced in a somewhat provocative style. If you have the time, I suggest killing a few minutes on the "You Do It!" YouTube channel and of course, if anyone finds more gold, feel free to link them from the comments.