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Places

Crestwood mall and intelligent thinking

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The mall closest to where I live is the Crestwood Mall, a rather sad, indoor mall that has lost much of its business in the last few years. Last year it was purchased and the new owners will be converting it into an outdoor, village like setting, which I think […]

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SVG

State of SVG

Earlier in December, Meitar Moscovitz at Sitepoint wrote an article on SVG optimistically titled SVG is the Future of Application Development. In it he references not only the future capability of SVG, but XHTML and RDFa, too. The writing was a breath of fresh air after so many technical pundits have declared all three to be […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs

Bad Laws

Tomorrow Judge George Wu is presiding over a session regarding the requests for dismissal of the misdemeanor convictions against Lori Drew and the mistrial on one count. I’ve been working for some time now on a longer writing about Lori Drew and Megan Meier that I hope to publish as soon as we see where […]

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Connecting

Read. Watch.

I don’t cry easily. Read the post. Watch the photo slideshow. Support the Courage Campaign.

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Photography

Business sucks and other images from Gringo Jones

As part of a story I’m doing for MissouriGreen, a first set of photos of the famous Gringo Jones Import and Other Stuff near the Botanical Garden. The sign out front says it all: Business Sucks. Come in and deal. Welcome to Gringo Jones, one of the funnest, funkiest places in St. Louis. Everything is for sale. Except […]