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Links: OMG! There are two of them!

All I have to say is thank God for the Internet. Because if it weren’t for this miraculous series of tubes, I would not have learned of this wonderful news: There are TWO Scarlett Johanssons! The following comment was left at this Indian Website’s article about something or other to so with Scarlett:
By: Serge [...]

August 9, 2008 in links
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BP Site News: Some Saturday linkage (UPDATED)

Here are some interesting posts on the Blog Peoria Network:

Seth Ben-Ezra at “A Dark and Quiet Rook” comments on how the village of Addison is helping residents poor residents by giving them heat stroke. And he notes similar nanny-state behavior here in Peoria. Kudos for an excellent post.
Peoria Illinoisan welcomes back an old friend.
Angie is [...]

June 14, 2008 in links
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Site News: Elsewere

Justice Blog of America: This is not your father’s Green Hornet.
Blotter: J. Jonah Jameson was right! 

June 4, 2008 in links
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News: Slavery abounds elsewhere in the world

In the United States, a man who would be wearing chains 150 years ago is the front-runner to be president. Like him, don’t like him, his nomination is a sign of our greatness as a nation.
In other other parts of the world … slavery abounds:
China was found to have a “significant” problem with forced labor, [...]

June 4, 2008 in links
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Links: New Peoria Blogger

Well, he’s new to the Blog Peoria Project. The mighty Burl has decided to give the Blog Peoria Project a try and is now blogging here. I’ve been trying to find someone to report on local sports for the Peoria Blogosphere and Burl has the goods.

May 26, 2008 in The Sports Page, links
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Today’s news: Moons and ’shrooms

Links via the Journal Star’s spiffy new Web site:

Apparently, Chillicothe is a good place to look for mushrooms. Who knew? Well, the morel the merrier, I say ,…
This is not a fun way to get mooned.
I did this story about Hispanic and Mexican immigration in the East Bluff about three years ago. And there’s also [...]

May 26, 2008 in Local, links
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Site news: Walkable West Bluff and logo news

A couple of new posts are up over at Press Releases.
Submit them via email: peoriapundit AT gmail DOT com.

May 23, 2008 in links
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Media: C.J. scores a first for the Peoria Blogosphere

C.J. Summers has the scoop on the District 150 Watch Coalition’s meeting with Superintendent Ken Hinton. He’s done some remarkable work on all this.
In fact, it’s so remarkable that HOI News, in it’s own on-line version of the story, linked directly to C.J.’s most recent post.
I do believe this is a first for the Peoria [...]

May 23, 2008 in links
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Site News: I am taken to task

Jonathan Ahl just doesn’t get me. And here, I thought I had him at hello.
First, not all blogs I create are intended to be permanent. I created that site simply to test (and as it turns out, repair) this WordPressMu installations import and export features. I didn’t want to try it on any existing blog.
And as [...]

May 21, 2008 in links, site news
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Site news: Invitations

Some announcements:

I’ve been playing around with my Facebook page, and I ended up sending invitations to about half the people in the mailing list. If you got one (or two or three, sorry about that), consider signing up. Facebook is a good way to network for business and social reasons.
And the mysterious Subway Conductor seems [...]

May 16, 2008 in links
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Blogging: We all should be dooced

The chick who writes this blog told Nightline that:

She got fired for writing a post about how her boss got Botox treatments and showed up to work with a frozen face.
So, she blogs full time.
She now makes ,000 a month from advertising revenue.

Sounds like a plan … oops, I don’t have a spouse to pay [...]

May 13, 2008 in links
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