BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. CNN has a summary post of the levee breaches and the state of flooding in both Illinois and Missouri, including links to videos on the levee break at Winfield. The films especially show how dangerous levee breaches can be, and why we so desperately try to prevent them. I impulsively ran out […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Update Unfortunately, there was one levee outside of Winfield we couldn’t save. second update Steve Ley, one of the two men in the photograph in the post, also wrote of today’s experience. third update The Salvation Army has set up a localized fund to help flood victims in Missouri. I […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have this insanely perverse urge not to download Firefox until Wednesday. To get up in the dead of night, tip-toe to my machine and hit the download button when the date is safely the 18th; cackling in glee at the thought that I, I, am the sole hold out–the […]
Update As of this afternoon, June 17, the predictions now place the crest of the flood in St. Louis on the 23rd of June, and 40 feet. The forecast is now for major flooding in our community. Tomorrow or Thursday, I’ll grab my camera, as I head out to record yet another flood. It seems like […]
A couple of people have kindly pointed out Robert O’Callahan’s wonderful exploration Applying SVG Effects to HTML. I’ve held off on posting about it, as I wanted to create a longer writing trying out Robert’s work. However, I didn’t want to put off sharing this effort any longer. I’ll have more on this mix of HTML […]