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Any man who can work Beck, court technology and litigation consultants into the same post deserves loads of respect. Check out the DennisKennedy.blog to see how he did it.

Hiram Wurf reports on the most recent vote of the Naperville City Council, on a vote to widen an intersection not far from my house. Hiram was the cornerstone of the Dean efforts in DuPage County, and was inspired by that involvement to run for local office (County Board). Help him out, spread the word…

Interesting. The conventional wisdom (most recently presented in Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball) is that Illinois will almost certainly elect Barack Obama as our next Senator. I’m helping the campaign out, and certainly hope he gets elected. But apparently the Republicans haven’t gotten the memo that Barack’s a shoo-in: last month Bill Frist was in town,…

I searched in vain for the lyrics to “Become America” by The Call, easily the best band that never made it to super-stardom. I was thinking about Become America lately, in light of President Bush’s comment that the soldiers at Abu Ghraib don’t represent “the America I know,” Dave Winer’s recent comments about America “getting…

In the last 36 hours, FeedBurner reports that more than 1000 unique subscribers have read my RSS feed. That’s more than double the number of visitors who came to tins through a web browser.

This year’s entertainment lineup has been announced. In our little suburb, check out who’s performing less than a mile from my house: dada Sugar Ray Lynyrd Skynyrd (FREEBIRD!) Poi Dog Pondering Not bad. Last year’s line-up included Hootie & the Blowfish (drummer is a Naperville alum), Blondie and Los Lobos. As in years past, the…

Interesting. W Hotels and iTunes have paired up — stay at the W, get 3 free downloads at iTunes. Plus a three month subscription to Wired.

I’m giving FeedBurner a try. FeedBurner addresses the thorny dilemma posed by RSS: while you know that it increases your readership, you have no frickin’ clue who’s reading your RSS feed. FeedBurner swaps out your own with its version of your RSS feed (more on that in a minute); by running sophisticated tracking software on…

This Memorial Day story by Ed Cone is wonderful.

Watching BBC America this morning, we saw a promo for Season 4 of Coupling. It looks like there’s a new Jeff? Can’t wait for the new episodes. Share your predictions about what will happen in Season 4 here.