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…

A number of you have submitted suggestions for our “Google Street View” contest — and I’m grateful for your participation. I went through the ones that were posted on the initial intro to the contest here (go here to enter for…

I follow scores of people on Twitter. That’s where I heard it first. A few moments later came the breaking news e-mail alert from KSDK, then the New York Times. Within the hour, the virtual world had basically exploded with…

I’m willing to concede that this doesn’t exactly fit the definition of “virtual” St. Louis. But it caught my eye and I’ll take it — because it includes the URL for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Casual Classics series.

Colleagues here…