By JW | Thu, 02/24/2022 - 18:39

Events 📆

Mardi Gras 🎭

  • Riverboats At The Gateway Arch Announce Cruises In Celebration Of Mardi Gras And St. Patrick's Day - RiverBender
  • Where to celebrate Mardi Gras in St. Louis beyond the Grand Parade - St. Louis Magazine
  • The 5th Annual Lucky's St. Patrick's Day Crawl - St Louis - City of St. Louis, MO
  • St. Louis highway exits, part of Chouteau to close during Mardi Gras celebrations - stltoday.com
  • Throw Some Extra Green in the Mix for Mardi Gras Celebrations This Weekend - Clean Air Partnership

STLfish 🐟

STLfood ⚜️

  • Multiple St. Louis Restaurants Nominated For James Beard Awards 2022 - RFT
  • 2022 James Beard Award semifinalists include several chefs, restaurants and bakers in St. Louis and Kansas City - feastmagazine.com
  • Best STL Pizza - Final Four Voting now open - r/StLouis
  • Review: Chicken Seven Has What It Takes to Succeed, If the City Would Let It - RFT
  • Six St. Louis chefs and one local restaurant announced as semifinalists for 2022 James Beard Awards - St. Louis Magazine
  • St. Louis pub chain sues over 'ghost kitchen's' name - stltoday.com
  • Vicia owners add partner to business, plan new restaurants in St. Louis - KSDK
  • What is the secret to the “good” Imo’s locations? - r/StLouis
  • Yip Yips - stLouIST

Neighborhoods 🏡

  • Suit seeks to halt extension of downtown taxing district - KSDK
  • Hyde Park Neighborhood Association Meeting – February 17, 2022, 6:00 pm - Hyde Park Neighborhood Association
  • North St. Louis County neighborhoods grow more diverse, but local government representation lags - stltoday.com
  • Some businesses moving, others moving in (or out) - 40 South News

DIY 🪓

  • Deadbolt impacts some ASUSTOR NASes — check your backup plan! - Jeff Geerling's Blog
  • Building a desktop Pi PC with Axzez's Interceptor - Jeff Geerling's Blog
  • Set Up Your YouTube Studio Smartly With These Tips - Make
  • Mardi Gras Recipes for Your Next Celebration - NYT > Food
  • St. Paul Sandwich (Fortune Express) - JWblog
  • Courtesy Diner’s Slinger - JWblog
  • Mai Lee St. Paul Sandwich - JWblog
  • White Castle Dressing - JWblog
  • St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake Recipe - JWblog

Sustainability ♻️

Infrastructure 🚽

Ecology 🦤

  • Leave Hank the Tank Alone - VICE US
  • Centipedes, the ‘envy of engineers,’ inspire a new generation of robots - Science Magazine
  • Altruistic birds foil scientists by helping each other yank off tracking devices - Boing Boing
  • Satellites don’t lie: Methane emissions are 70% higher than reported - Grist

STL99 😱

  • Schnucks recalls fresh ground beef sold at Affton store - FOX 2
  • BBB warns against using St. Louis moving company after consumers complain of 'hostage loads' - KSDK
  • Why Did Someone Apply To Demolish the Cotton Belt Building? - RFT

STL100 💯

  • American Red Cross needs volunteers for disaster response, blood drives - FOX 2
  • Cahokia Mounds Releases Second Phase Of Popular Augmented Reality App - RiverBender
  • Go Karting on Ice Is Arriving in St. Louis - RFT
  • Operation Food Search receives $95,000 through Bank of America - stlamerican.com
  • Announcing the RFT's New Editor in Chief - RFT

99MO 😱

  • Second wave of winter weather hits St. Louis region with thundersleet, snow - FOX 2
  • The second wave of winter weather in St. Louis is expected this afternoon - FOX 2
  • With winter cold wave moving in, Potosi gets help restoring natural gas services to residents - FOX 2

99WW

  • Russian forces attempting to seize Chernobyl - Boing Boing
  • Russia invades Ukraine - Boing Boing
  • Cyberwarfare looms as Russia shells, invades Ukraine - The Register
  • Ukraine hit by DDoS attacks, Russia deploys malware - The Register
  • Ukraine Wants to Ban Russia From SWIFT. WTF Is SWIFT? - VICE US
  • US Troops and F-35s En Route to Eastern European NATO Countries - VICE US
  • Would Banning Russia From Getting Software Updates Make It Easier to Hack? - VICE US
  • Ukraine's Military Claims It Has Shot Down Multiple Russian Aircraft - VICE US
  • Russian Government Websites Are Currently Down - VICE US
  • Here’s How China Reacted to Russia’s Attack on Ukraine - VICE US
  • Will Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Trigger a Cyberwar? - ACM
  • White House Prepares Curbs on Russia's Access to U.S. Technology - ACM
  • 9 ways to help Ukrainians amid Russia crisis - FOX 2
  • Biden imposes Russian natural gas pipeline sanctions - FOX 2
  • New U.S. sanctions on Russia target banks, high-tech imports - Missouri Independent
  • UN Security Council sets an emergency meeting on Ukraine - FOX 2
  • Why does the US care so much about Ukraine? Experts break down the conflict with Russia - FOX 2
  • Waves of Russian forces launch assault on Ukraine and U.S. prepares added sanctions - Missouri Independent
  • Twitter restores suspended accounts that tracked Russian military activity - Engadget
  • Which are good sources on Ukraine/Russia? - Marginal REVOLUTION
  • MacPaw folks are primarily in Ukraine - Manton Reece
  • Former Employees Say Mossad Members Dropped By NSO Officers To Run Off-The-Books Phone Hacks - Techdirt.
  • Chinese Cybersecurity Company Doxes Apparent NSA Hacking Operation - VICE US
  • Taiwan reports nine Chinese aircraft in defense zone - FOX 2

Police 🚓

  • St. Louis police union votes against renewing contract of controversial leader who is running for state Senate - KSDK
  • St. Louis police union votes to let contract with Jeff Roorda expire amid state senate bid - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis police union votes to let contract with Jeff Roorda expire amid state senate bid - r/StLouis
  • Illinois State Police announce large increase in drug seizures last year - stltoday.com
  • Off duty St. Louis County officers turn heads at Coachlite Skating Rink - FOX 2

DotGov 🏛

  • Kansas City settles with Black man wrongly jailed at 15 - FOX 2
  • The GOP Knows That The Dem's Antitrust Efforts Have A Content Moderation Trojan Horse; Why Don't The Dems? - Techdirt.
  • QAnon Isn’t Dead, It’s Growing - VICE US

CityGov 🏛

  • St. Louis agency to take 10% cut of federal funds to cover administrative costs, raising eyebrows - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis aldermen may bar or limit virtual legislating while driving - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis bill would require new police officers to stay 4 years or repay city training costs - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis eyes bond issue for new downtown parking - stltoday.com
  • St. Louis Health Commissioner Dr. Frederick Echols - stlamerican.com
  • St. Louis mayor says plans call for Loop Trolley to restart in summer - stltoday.com
  • Refuse Collection Suspended 2/24 Due to Ice - City of St. Louis, MO

MoGov 🏛

  • State Website Had Flaw 10 Years Before Reporter Saw It 10:13 - r/StLouis
  • Claim that reporter hacked state website was debunked. Parson still says he’s a criminal - Missouri Independent
  • Eric Schmitt Can’t Get His Ducks in a Row to Sue China - RFT
  • Former Blues player running for Missouri congressional seat - stltoday.com
  • Missouri counties lose bid to control salaries of sheriffs - stltoday.com
  • Missouri Governor rides tractor to work - FOX 2
  • Missouri lawmaker ends protest, apologizes for overalls 'ruckus' - KSDK
  • Missouri politicians, including several top Senate candidates, condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - stltoday.com
  • Missouri Senate passes $4.6B spending bill with pay raises, federal school funds - Missouri Independent
  • Missouri, Illinois state and federal lawmakers react to Russian attack on Ukraine - FOX 2

Covid19 Info 🦠

  • CDC to significantly ease pandemic mask guidelines Friday - FOX 2
  • Page to end St. Louis County’s mask mandate on Monday - stltoday.com
  • Hospitalizations still falling in St. Louis-area medical facilities - FOX 2

Jobs 📄

History 🦕

  • The Duncan Bruce - The Waterways Journal
  • Vintage KSDK: The day construction began on the Gateway Arch - KSDK
  • Vintage KSDK: The deadly St. Louis tornado of Feb. 10, 1959 - KSDK

Captain's Blog 🏴‍☠️

  • Robot Fry Cook Gets Job at 100 White Castle Locations - ACM
  • What English sounds like to people in Japan - Boing Boing
  • Facebook’s Stolen Privacy Ecosystem - Daring Fireball
  • CSS Database Queries? Sure We Can! - CSS-Tricks
  • Drupal 7 End of Life (D7 EOL) postponed until at least November 2023 - Tag1
  • My first web3 webpage - Dries Buytaert
  • Web3 Developers Have Found a Functioning Metaverse. It’s ‘Minecraft’. - VICE US
  • 10 Minimalism Web Design Tips for 2022 - noupe
  • Largest bacterium ever discovered has an unexpectedly complex cell - Science Magazine
  • US GAO rejects complaint over NASA IT contract - The Register
  • Anatomy of suspected top-tier decade-hidden NSA backdoor - The Register
  • As Expected, Trump's Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn't Like - Techdirt.