Events 📆
- Missouri Severe Weather Preparedness Week - City of St. Louis, MO
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 🐟
- Fish Fry Season! - r/StLouis
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 ♻️
- Electrified Vehicles at the 2022 Chicago Auto Show - UrbanReview | ST LOUIS
- Finland built this tomb to store nuclear waste. Can it survive for 100,000 years? - Science Magazine
Infrastructure 🚽
- Ameren again accelerates closure of Rush Island power plant - Global Energy and the American Dream
- The U.S. Proves It's Finally Ready for Offshore Wind - Gizmodo
- FAA now says 5G airports may interfere with Boeing 737s - The Register
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 📄
- Administrative Assistant II - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- Lead Abatement Worker - City of Saint Louis : Jobs
- TDK Technologies is hiring software technology professionals - FOX 2
- Commercial Real Estate Logistics company plans $30M-plus expansion, to add 200 new jobs - KSDK
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.