Saturday, March 29, 2008

My new book: "50 Sad Chairs"

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I probably should mention that my new book is out. It's published by the weird and wonderful folks at BlueQ . It's a nice little pho...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Well, that's that

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Hey all -- I left the PD to go back to XPLANE so I'm no longer doing the blog of the week. This here Bits page will be rethought, as I ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Comically Large Things

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All I can say is if you don't think the Comically Large Things wbelog is a huge laugh, then you're a big loser. Whether it's gia...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Yard Sale Bloodbath

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Yard Sale Bloodbath contains reviews and recaps of yard sales, swap meets and such, and includes photos of some of the weird stuff you somet...
Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Strange Maps

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Attention map geeks: Strange Maps is a blog full of delicious cartographic oddness. Want to know what a map of the world would look like if ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

What Did You Buy Today?

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Kate Bingaman-Burt has been running her Obsessive Consumption site for years now, fueled by the slogan, "consume/document/make." S...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Indexed

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Jessica Hagy's blog, "Indexed," isn't just clever -- it's brilliant. Every day she draws a deceptively simple diagram ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Was on vacation

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No posts from me for 7/17. I was on vacation and someone else wrote the blog column.
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Neatorama

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The world of Harry Potter is strange and the Simpsons' universe is pretty weird, but the truly odd things in our world are almost always...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

How to Photograph Fireworks

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Fireworks -- they look and sound great in real life but your 4th of July photos always turn out dark and blurry. Well, we can't make you...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

One Sentence

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The group blog One Sentence is filled with fragments of real lives. Many of the one sentence stories are just chilling enough to cause you t...
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Beer Mapping Project

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Mix hops, maps and geeks and what do you get? You get The Beer Mapping Project, a web site for folks who like to know exactly where they are...
Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dad Gone Mad

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Who's hilarious, insightful and (almost always) a good dad? Dad Gone Mad, that's who. Written anonymously, the Dad Gone Mad blog mak...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

(bits) lives!

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The blog of the week will return to the Post-Dispatch on June 12 as part of the new Here and Now section. Yay!
Friday, May 18, 2007

Rethinking...

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The Everyday section in the Post-Dispatch is no more so I'm no longer writing up these shorts on cool web sites and local blogs for the ...
Sunday, May 13, 2007

How to make the best paper airplane in the world

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Do you want to know how to build "the best paper airplane in the world?" This site makes that bold claim -- and it takes 35 steps,...
Sunday, May 06, 2007

16 Must Read Articles For Bloggers

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Usually the best way to figure out how to do something right is to do it wrong so many times, in so many ways, that you learn what works. Bu...
Saturday, April 28, 2007

Twitter

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Maybe you don't really have the desire to start a full-fledged weblog or maybe you're afraid of technology, but you still want to br...
Sunday, April 22, 2007

No new sites this week

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No new site this week. Sorry!
Sunday, April 15, 2007

WebsterBloggers.com

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Featuring posts on topics ranging from homelessness to music venues to fruit smoothies, WebsterBloggers.com is a new weblog for students at ...
Saturday, April 07, 2007

No new site this week

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No new site this week. Most of the Everyday section featured winners of the Peeps contest!
Sunday, April 01, 2007

Foos On First

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Is this an April Fool's joke? No, it's real. A rag-tag squad of avid kickballers has publicly challenged Dave Grohl and his rock ban...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

On My Desk

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What is On My Desk? It's just what you think: A place where artists, illustrators, designers and creative people from around the world s...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

ghostco.org: with hands and hair and eyes and bones and knees

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Matthew Woodson is a wildly talented young illustrator working in St. Louis. His weblog, "With hands and hair and eyes and bones and kn...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

what's in rebecca's pocket?

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Rebecca Blood has been involved in weblogs since the beginning. She's been running her site, Rebecca's Pocket, since 1999 and she wr...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age

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Are you not quite in the place you thought you'd be at this point in your life? Feeling like you haven't done as much as you though ...
Saturday, February 24, 2007

NoRelevance

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NoRelevance is a web site for lovers of visual junk. It was created to house some of the "mountains of graphical ephemera" that th...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

Five Dollar Camera

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Things you will learn from reading Five Dollar Camera: The author won't eat cheese except as a pizza topping. She never did that "t...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

A Million Penguins

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Attention bad writers: A few weeks ago we pointed you to "The Cringe Book," citing it as your only chance to be published. Well, i...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Midomi

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Use Midomi.com to search for music and friends by singing or humming part of a song at your computer. This is great for two reasons: 1) You ...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

LO-FI SAINT LOUIS

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Bill Streeter is St. Louis' videoblogger extraordinaire. He covers "lo-fi music and culture from River City USA," and he does ...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Cringe Book

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Are you a horrible writer with dreams of being published in a great book? The Cringe Book may be your only chance. Sarah Brown of Brooklyn, ...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

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Hands down, one of the most interesting, mind-boggling sites in the internet, Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society is a group that ...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

Free Candy

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Free Candy is a non-broadcast, live, unscripted St. Louis-based talk show focusing on local issues, hipsters and happenings. You won't f...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

No new sites this week

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Vacation. No local blog or any other site this week. Sorry.
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Things Magazine

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With the holidays upon us, many of us are thinking about "things" -- things we're giving, things we're getting, things for...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Temporary hiatus

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I was out sick for a while so there were no new sites for 12/10 or 12/17.
Saturday, December 02, 2006

Fimoculous.com: 2006 Lists

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The close of the calendar year brings us hundreds of "Year's Best" lists. How can we possibly keep up? Head on over to fimocul...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

Instructables

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Instructables is a collaborative website where people can show off things they make and share instructive how-tos for those projects. Things...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

Neato Coolville

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Where is Neato Coolville? "Neato Coolville is a small place located at the junction of Imagination Street and Nostalgia Road." Or ...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

RetailMeNot.com

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Love discounts? Of course you do, so check out RetailMeNot.com. Lots of online stores have a field to enter a coupon or promotion code durin...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

No new sites this week

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Most of the standing features in Everyday section were given over to the shopping guide. No local blog this week.
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Give Me Back My Google

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We love using Google's search engine to find products but we don't care for all the comparison shopping sites that clog the results ...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

swissmiss

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Tina Roth Eisenberg is a Swiss designer living in New York City who spends her time raising a baby daughter and blogging about all sorts of ...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Zinfully Delicious

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Zinfully Delicious is a pictures and recipes blog by local foodies Bruno and Duane. Wine, breads, desserts and St. Louis restaurants are rec...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Tasty Research

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Tasty Research is an interesting weblog by a University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Masters student who blogs about psychology and sociolo...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

JPG Magazine

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JPG Magazine was created for photographers who have typically shared their work online but would like to see their photos in print. Created ...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

Dividing By Zero WIll Get You Nowhere

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The Web's got MP3 blogs out the kazoo these days so you have lots of places to go to discover new music. But the Dividing By Zero WIll G...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

Hotel Bed Jumping HQ

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Don't deny it -- you've done it. Now show everyone you're not ashamed. Bed jumpers of the world have united at the recently est...
Sunday, September 10, 2006

15thWardSTL

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Steve Wilke-Shapiro moved into south city in 2003. Always a big fan of the South Grand area, he recently started blogging about goings-on in...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Pop Culture Junk Mail

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Pop Culture Junk Mail catalogs and comments on weird food, strange products, and 1970s and 1980s nostalgia, and has done so since August, 19...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Zunafish

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Zunafish lets you list your old CDs, books, DVDs and the like and trade them for new titles you'd rather have. Sick of listening to your...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

The Mayor of Affton

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Despite the fact that the position is non-existent, J. Patrick O'Brien considers himself the (un)Official Mayor of Affton, Mo. He blogs ...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

the show with zefrank

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What? You haven't seen Ze Frank's always funny, often weird, occasionally crude web broadcasts yet? Although he's been around fo...
Sunday, August 06, 2006

The Popularity Dialer

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Want to get out of a boring meeting? Need an excuse to ditch an uncomfortable conversation? Maybe you just want to look important. Use ...
Saturday, July 29, 2006

Skip To The 'Lou

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LOCAL BLOG: Allison is a South-sider in love with St. Louis and its potential. Her blog, Skip To The 'Lou, is meant to be part of the re...
Sunday, July 23, 2006

popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz

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Stay excruciatingly up-to-date on the latest news and web buzz at popurls. Popurls aggregates popular and recent links from nearly 20 group ...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

No new sites this week

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Most of the standing features in Everyday section were given over to the 115 hot things feature. No local blog this week.
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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Tuesday marks the 27th anniversary of Skylab's demise. Five years after the last mission, solar activity had decayed the space station...
Sunday, July 02, 2006

Kiddley

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Summer vacation is here and the kids are home all day -- and driving you crazy. You need Kiddley, a weblog filled with bright ideas and fun ...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

I'm Not A Slacker

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Let's peek in on Kevin, a full-time stay-at-home dad (and part-time geek) who chronicles his adventures with son Gavin, now two. His web...

No new sites this week

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Most of the standing features in Everyday section were given over to a User's Guide to Forest Park, celebrating the park's 130th ann...
Saturday, June 10, 2006

One Thousand Paintings

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Not quite paint by numbers, One Thousand Paintings is a project by Sala, a young artist living in Zurich, Switzerland, featuring paintings o...
Saturday, June 03, 2006

Waveflux

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Waveflux is where St. Louis transplant (and Bettie Page fan) Philip Barron weighs in on local news, politics, entertainment and whatnot. He...
Saturday, May 27, 2006

Photojojo

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Summer's coming and you're going to be taking lots of photos. How about doing something different with them this year? Photojojo wil...
Sunday, May 21, 2006

MAKE Magazine

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"The first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, MAKE Magazine unites, inspires and informs a growing community of reso...
Saturday, May 13, 2006

Life Among The Savages

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Sunday is Mother's Day, that one day of the year when little savages buy their moms a present or dinner or flowers or something. But wha...
Sunday, May 07, 2006

Underground Ozarks

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A few months ago we went underground with the St. Louis-based urban exploration blog Irrational Ecstasy. This week let's head west and g...
Saturday, April 29, 2006

Morale-O-Meter

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What is Morale-O-Meter? It's a way to track, publish and compare your "daily morale, health, sleep, alcoholic consumption, and caff...
Sunday, April 23, 2006

The Roundrock Journal

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The Roundrock Journal is an excellent little blog dedicated to 80 acres of upland forest on the edge of the Missouri Ozarks. Written anonymo...
Saturday, April 15, 2006

Sustainablog

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Next Saturday is Earth Day, so give the Earth a hug. When you're done, wipe the dirt off your shirt and point your web browser to Sustai...
Sunday, April 09, 2006

The Loft Style Blog

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St. Louis is going loft-crazy and the The Loft Style Blog is here to help. Sporadically active, Loft Style features tips on how best to take...
Sunday, April 02, 2006

Make Me Watch TV

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If you are bossy and love (or hate) tv, flip on over to Aric McKeown's site, Make Me Watch TV. There, you can vote on what primetime sho...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

Officially Over: News of the no-longer hip

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This week we peek in on 'Officially Over: News of the no-longer hip,' where you can learn about the hot new thing just as it's b...
Sunday, March 19, 2006

Cockeyed.com

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The Weird Wide Web is an odd and entertaining place and that's why we love it. We especially love Cockeyed.com, where web celeb Rob Cock...
Saturday, March 11, 2006

Route 66 News

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Why are so many of us fascinated with historic Route 66? I don't know, but you can feed your fascination with the Mother Road by keeping...
Sunday, March 05, 2006

Web Hosting Handbook

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We're always talking about other peoples' web sites and blogs here, but why don't you go make your own? Use the Web Hosting Hand...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

Irrational Ecstasy

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Irrational Ecstasy is a fascinating urban exploration blog. Started in January by a 24-year-old named Casey who lives in St. Charles, the we...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

President for a Day

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Tomorrow is President's Day, so let's honor someone special -- the man who was President of the United States for only one day. Of c...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

secretadmirer.com and lovecalculator.com

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Valentine's Day is Tuesday and you're crushing on a certain someone, without a clue as to how to get things started. So go to www.se...
Sunday, February 05, 2006

WALT NOW!

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Walt Jaschek is a Clio- and Addy-winning copywriter and creative director (and Jennings High School graduate, 1973) who likes to make funny-...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Ecology of Absence

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Ecology of Absence is a local site that "chronicles changes in the built environment of St. Louis with occasional coverage of Chicago, ...
Saturday, January 21, 2006

diggdot.us

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Are you a link junkie, a news geek? A web addict, a blog beast? If so, diggdot.us is the site for you. Aggregating posts from popular web si...
Saturday, January 14, 2006

MoOM: The Museum of Online Museums

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Coudal Partners, a design firm based in Chicago, curates the Museum of Online Museums where you can find links to "online collections a...
Sunday, January 08, 2006

Stuck on you?

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Elvis has been spotted in the conference room. And he can be seen in yours, too, once you read this detailed how-to by quirky graphic design...
Sunday, January 01, 2006

History's Time Portal to Old St. Louis

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Another year has gone by, and time keeps on ticking -- so get clicking through the online archives of the "History's Time Portal to...
Sunday, December 25, 2005

The Fat Man Walking

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It's Christmas day and Steve Vaught is in San Diego, home with his family, but he'll be back in the St. Louis area this week continu...
Saturday, December 17, 2005

Ink Slinger: Blatherings of a recovering television writer

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A recent post from Paul Guyot: "To anyone who may have had trouble connecting with me within the past 38 years -- the problem is now re...
Saturday, December 10, 2005

Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade

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The holidays are nearing and you have yet to find the perfect gift for your special someone? Try Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade go...
Sunday, December 04, 2005

One Movie A Day

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On October 1st, Colorado blogger and film school graduate David Wester watched a movie. He also watched one on October 2nd. And the 3rd. And...
Sunday, November 27, 2005

Fluid Pudding

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Excerpted from Fluid Pudding: "Many years ago, I was friends with a bunch of musical theater folks... You're eating at Denny's....
Saturday, November 19, 2005

Pretty War STL

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Thomas Lampe, proprietor of the Pretty War STL blog, is a regular guy taking pictures and making posts about the city in which he lives. He ...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

I want to - A page of utilities that help you do stuff you want to

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Do you find yourself saying "I want to..." or "I need to..." or "How do I..." a lot while at your computer? Th...
Sunday, November 06, 2005

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)

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Have you always wanted to write a novel? Well, November is the month to do it. That's right, we're six days into National Novel Writ...
Sunday, October 30, 2005

Ghouls with Attitude

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"Ghouls with Attitude" is a spine-tingling 2-CD Halloween-themed music compilation by audio maven Otis Fodder, available courtesy ...
Sunday, October 23, 2005

No new sites this week

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Most of the standing features in Everyday section were given over to commemorating the 40th anniversary of the topping out of the Gateway Ar...
Sunday, October 16, 2005

STL Rising

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STL Rising is a new blog by Rick Bonasch that is "dedicated to the renaissance of the City of St. Louis. It's a place to discuss is...
Sunday, October 09, 2005

Ask Metafilter

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Peek in on other peoples' problems and curiosities at Ask Metafilter, a popular online discussion area where digital citizens seek advic...
Sunday, October 02, 2005

EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers

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This week, instead of pointing out a local blog, we'll point you to a great blogger resource: The Electronic Frontier Foundation's L...
Sunday, September 25, 2005

Architectural Ruminations

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Andrew L W Raimist is a local architect working on a book about the accomplished Saint Louis modern architect Harris Armstrong, who died in ...
Sunday, September 18, 2005

Pointless Website Blog

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Why would you want to read "Pointless Website Blog?" Well, because it features pointless posts ruminating on the term hoosier and ...
Sunday, September 11, 2005

Brick City

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Brick City is the weblog of a young graphic designer and aspiring photographer living in our city of bricks. "My goal is to offer a new...
Sunday, September 04, 2005

Flickr: Photo sharing

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Store, organize and share your photos with www.flickr.com. By marking your pictures with descriptive tags, the site becomes very social, al...
Sunday, August 28, 2005

It's Jim!

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It's Jim! And Jim can be a funny guy. Recent post: "I found an arrowhead while digging a hole in my front yard. The guys all just s...
Sunday, August 21, 2005

The Mirror Project

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Ever take a picture of yourself in the mirror, or maybe reflected in the window, in chrome or a puddle? Then check out the Mirror Project, a...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Daddy Types: The weblog for new dads

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It's not news that 20- and 30-something guys love gadgets, ironic t-shirts and books with pictures. But guys especially love those thing...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

JYOSEPH.COM

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Here's all we know about St. Louis photoblogger Joseph Holst (jyoseph) from his web site: Age, 26; Location, St. Louis; Status, Married ...
Sunday, July 31, 2005

B.E.L.T. - BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN LAYMAN'S TERMS

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Blog building: Architectural photographer Toby Weiss documents St. Louis' disappearing shopping and living spaces, with an appreciative ...