They dress like monks, their robes bound by electric computer cords. They get by on their cross-country tour largely on the kindness of strangers. And their 40-day-and-40-night mission is aimed at encouraging people to “go the extra mile” for their…

I came in this morning expecting to write a quickie item about Van’s Warped Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater yesterday. My daughter spent the whole day there and brought back a ton of pictures — so I expected to be…

Here’s a link to a blog called “Digital Photography School” and its recent posting on how to shoot photographs of fireworks. Shout-out to my colleague Kim Bell for the great idea, with July Fourth two days away and plenty of pixels…

As you might imagine, there is no shortage of opinion out on web about the departure of Archbishop Raymond Burke from St. Louis. The Talk of the Day topic we posted on STLtoday had 33 comments within 90 minutes of posting…

It’s another week of finalists in our Google Street View contest! Truthfully, the entries slowed down considerably, so this may be the last week if they don’t pick up. But if you find more interesting things captured by Google, send’em…

The story today about a man in St. Charles who was struck by lightning got me thinking: Where can you go to find real-time information about lightning strikes in the area?

Turns out, there’s not a lot of places. The data…

Brad L. Graham writes of his experience as a freelancer for the Post-Dispatch, and the plum assignment he got in 1998 to interview and write about George Carlin.

See some of the highlights from the STL twittersphere and beyond on the death of George Carlin yesterday.

rednektek: Retweet of @ScottMonty In honor of George Carlin, a quote from Al Sleet, Tonight’s forecast: dark, w/widely scattered light by morning.

jimdunn:…

For week one of the Google Street View contest, we have a winner. It’s the Lindell Brick Wall. Screen shots are below, but if you click here, you can see it in action on Google’s site here.

The Lindell Wall…

The waters are rising in the St. Louis area. Forecasters don’t expect the river to crest until Monday, and then it will still be 10 feet below its high of 49.5 feet in 1993.

Still, it’s quite a sight to…