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Nearly a week since my last post! Sulking over my election loss? Hardly… (And thanks to all who sent kind words and posted on their sites, I’ll be following up soon with personal thanks.) Just got back from a week in Florida where I was helping my parents celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary. In attendance…

I’m writing this from my phone, so I’ll keep it brief: the results are in, and it looks like the Republican slate has been elected to serve Naperville Township. To Mr. Vician, Ms. Yurgaitis, Mr. Spitzzeri, and Ms. Busche. I look forward to their service and hope they serve our Township well. I’m disappoointed in…

Very exciting news: the Naperville Sun endorsed just two candidates for Township Trustee in today’s paper, and I’m one of the two. If you live in the township, please remember to vote!

Chris Casey recounts a sad day in Congressional history. I remember this when it happened — I was in law school, and had to repeatedly assure classmates (and one incensed professor) that it couldn’t possibly be true.

EchoDitto weighs in on 2008.

Definitely my vote for best April Fool’s, BoringBoring, a parody of BoingBoing. A few months ago, Erik had a great idea to do a parody of Boing Boing, which we thought we’d call “BoingBoingBoingBoing” (slogan: twice the boing!), but neither of us had the time to do it right. These guys did. (Side note: favorite…

P2P Revolution: Opera Announces Platform-Independent Real-Time Speech Technology, dubbed “Opera SoundWave”. Hysterical.

Another good one from Google — Google Gulp. Unlike last year’s April Fool’s announcement, this one is pretty clearly a joke…

Press release is here, I’m certain this will cause a stir…

Been way too busy to stoke the creative flames the past couple days, so here’s a list of links to past April Fool’s jokes I’ve done over the past couple years: 2004: IRS announces WYSKster 2003: Google Acquisitions Create ‘Movable Bloggerland’ (still my favorite) 2000: Bill Clinton to Launch E-Commerce IPO (with Erik Heels) 1999:…