Sean Tevis, the IT guy from Kansas who funded a run for State Representative with micro donations via PayPal (and only lost by 425 votes), is at it again for 2010 (digg). Go stevis!

And congratulations to Alan Taylor for his photo blog The Big Picture winning both the judged and People's Voice Webby Awards for Best Use of Photography. Go ( Read more... )

Blogger Liana has figured out the NPR correspondent name formula: your real first name with your middle initial creatively inserted wherever you like plus the name of the smallest city in a foreign country you've visited.

I've forgotten the name of the Mexican border town I visited when I was a teenager so Dudley takes it ( Read more... )

Apple just put up the first teaser for Where the Wild Things Are.

Last night's premiere episode of Chopping Block featured a contestant wearing local scribbler Dan Zettwoch's design Grilled Cheese:


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I just made my first Wikipedia edit. On the article for the St. Louis Ballpark Village, I requested citation for the last sentence:

As of 2009, the project is still a big embarrassing turd right in the middle of the city.

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Mind blissfully askew thanks to that sweet 'tussin nectar, my thoughts have drifted to consider the following:

Poll The SnugWowie™ Scenario

Show your work.

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Paint a number on a random stranger's bald head today. Paul Benedict (aka Mr. Bentley from the Jeffersons & the Mad Painter on Sesame Street) died this week.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-ODZ3ING0

Thanks to Tony Hightower for the heads up.

Newsweek has just published a bunch of fascinating tidbits about the 2008 presidential election that they, apparently, had agreed not to publish until after the election. Among them:

• Both democratic and republican campaign websites had been hacked by foreign entities with the FBI and Secret Service warning that "you have a problem way bigger than ( Read more... )