Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Wordie is a social networking tool for people who use words:Wordie lets you make lists of words and phrases. Words you love, words you hate, words on a given topic, whatever. Lists are visible to everyone but can be added to by just you, a group of friend...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Everyone knows you don't try to put toothpaste back in the tube. It can be done, but you end up with a big mess. The trick is not to let too much get squeezed out to begin with:In a letter dated July 6 in response to questions from the chairwoman of the...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
This is more a reminder to myself than anything else. It seems like I've signed up for Phil Hare's (my Congressperson) email list at least a couple times. But, since I never get any email from him, I find myself wondering if I really did sign up. So, t...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Lake Springfield doesn't have the Auxiliary Coast Guard anymore. Now we have the Springfield Police Department's lake patrol: Boat patrol teaching boaters rules of Lake Springfield (with photo).The above photo is from 1958. Click here for an uncropped ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
While reading about the upcoming Taste of Downtown, I was really interested to learn a new restaurant is being planned for Springfield called Sazerac:Downtown restaurants will be dishing up samples of their menu items from noon to midnight Saturday at TAS...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Since discovering it a few days ago, I've been completely absorbed by FiveThirtyEight.Org. It's better explained by the tagline: Electoral Projections Done Right.Lots of fascinating stuff there, like the most recent article: Why are New Jersey Politici...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 1 month ago.
Does anyone wear a tie anymore I guess if you wear a suit, you probably wear a tie. But, who wears a suit Probably lawyers going to court. But, probably not lawyers who sit in the office all day. Maybe some bankers wear ties. Maybe some restauran...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
EzraKlein Archive | The American ProspectTHAT SUCCESSFUL SURGE(tags: war iraq politics bush)Firefox 3: Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links(tags: firefox gmail howto lifehacker tips)The Capitol Fax Blog ‽ This just in… Supremes rule on guns ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
Enjoying the openness while it's still open. (Bigger)
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
[daily dose of imagery] gone with the wind on board(tags: photography Photo photos)Empire State Building with Rainbow (image stretched) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!(tags: photography photos Photo weather nyc)Rainbow over Boeing Building on Flickr - Photo Sh...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
Back on May 17, 2008, the Illinois Petroleum Council told us that Illinois is "the fourth-largest oil refining and transporting state." I've been thinking about that since then, and while I haven't been able to figure out exactly what that means, I have ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
A few nights ago somewhere in the middle of Park South, formerly Fiat Allis, previously formerly Allis Chalmers.It's hard to see in this photo, but those are people fishing on the other side of this open sewer. That's their SUV parked in the little parki...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
Seventh and Monroe, Springfield, Illinois.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
The Washington Post goes to Southern Illinois to find out why people like Barack Obama: Rural Illinois May Offer Clues to Obama's Electability | Courting of Rural Areas Began in '96.The State Journal-Register talks to Dick Durbin about possible Obama ru...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune has compiled a "cheat sheet" of the Tony Rezko and Barack Obama real estate situation: Let's clarify the Obama deal with Rezko -- a handy cheat sheet. Everyone probably knows by now that Tony Rezko has been convicted in ...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
We went out to a road construction site to listen to a series of speeches. I think it was somewhere around the I-55 and I-72 interchange, but further south. The first thing I noticed when we got to the place was how the land was totally decimated. It l...
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
In case you've never seen a flash flood in action, that's it. My daughter, Laura, took these photos at 7:00 this morning in Rochester, Illinois.
Posted by Disarranging Mine 2 months ago.
The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.I just started getting this today when I click on some links, but not all. Despite saying that the the URL cannot be loaded, it loads anyway.It started happening after I upgraded my AVG antivirus software. I h...
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