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02:17:32 am on April 16, 2008 |
You left out the Spanish chorizo (not to be confused with Mexican chorizo) … probably the grossest thing ever. But, in general, the food was way better than here. And fresh. Their culture of daily grocery shopping was really interesting, and made for the best food ever, every night. Unless you had chorizo, of course.
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09:23:04 pm on March 25, 2008 |
The St. Louis flood was crazy. Just got back to Galesburg from a nice spring break spent gawking at the flood damage outside the city a township away from my parents’ home. We have pictures. It was, like, a lot of water.
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03:28:46 am on March 3, 2008 |
After 130 years, The Knox Student is finally online! This is the paper that both I and our dear friend @strutting edited while at Knox College. And it would now appear that this makes me officially more awesome than @strutting.
The site, programmed and designed by @mattbaker, is a still in beta form, meaning it doesn’t do much…yet.
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08:52:44 am on February 20, 2008 |
Irene Allen is amazing, and so is this video of her playing along in a closed St. Louis City Museum. This is from Bill Streeter’s new site/video project Lo-Fi Sessions, which works well with Lo-Fi Saint Louis. Both sites are worth subscribing to in either podcast or RSS. If you like good music, of course.
On another note, WordPress.com needs to allow embedding of more than just YouTube (and a few other sites) videos, though I am sure they are working on that.
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09:02:51 pm on February 13, 2008 |
It’s at times like these, when I really need something completely good to grasp onto, that I turn to the only person left in America I can count on. Clownvis Presley.
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04:24:31 pm on February 13, 2008 |
I’m starting to realize that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch web site is by far the most depressing major news outlet. Nowhere else will you find so many absolutely horrifying stories all in a row, updated with such regularity. Perhaps it is indicative of the high crime rate of St. Louis, or perhaps it is just fulfilling that expectation with it’s coverage. Either way, I find it fascinating.
Here is a random (less depressing than usual) day on the site:
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08:07:30 pm on February 8, 2008 |
Remotely love your pets! It’s like having a dog, but without all the gross touching and smelling. It’s the greatest thing since remote hunting!
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07:43:41 am on February 6, 2008 |
I actually voted for the winner of something in America! This is a first for me, as I was 0 for 3. Now if only voting in a primary were not just an elaborate illusion of choice …
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08:48:45 am on February 5, 2008 |
As I think about this Twitter-like design, I keep running in circles trying to figure out how it can be something different. The most exciting thing about for me, perhaps, is that the tag cloud on Prologue is actually incredibly useful, as opposed to many tag clouds floating around there. Maybe we can depend on it to do nearly all of the site organizing for us … and maybe that is what separates it most clearly from Twitter. Thoughts?
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09:22:44 pm on February 4, 2008 |
Newsmap is on to something really huge, as my buddy Matt Baker has pointed out. Sometimes you really wonder how our current aspirations for web design will look to us in a few years. When I see something like Newsmap, which displays story “importance” (measured according to how many related articles exist in Google News) clearly and visually, while still giving you a headline, I become amazed at how little we actually understand about this Internet thing and what it can do. This design concept can be applied in so many situations. Maybe that’s what I’ll start doing …
