http://spfldbloggers.com/ A news aggregator for local Springfield Illinois blogs. en-us http://spfldbloggers.com/feed.php In this episode Andy and Bryan discuss the unique smell in Sears, watch the worst music video in recent memory, critique Guns n' Roses front man Axl Rose, review the current Billboard Top Ten (they haven't heard any of the songs), and watch the craziest a... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54630/rss 2012-05-17 20:51:26 by CNet news.com Vic Gundotra has been running engineering teams at Google since 2006 but he’s never been more bullish about what Google is building than he is today and there’s one simple reason: Design. “We care more about design than ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54628/rss 2012-05-17 18:26:12 By Navneet Johal, Ovum Aiming to benefit campus-based education and more, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently announced an online learning partnership. The $60m ($30m each) open source platform edX will host onl... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54629/rss 2012-05-17 18:20:21 by Amazon, Houston Chronicle Announced on their homepage earlier this week, The Kindle Owner Lending Library by Amazon will now have all seven Harry Potter Books available to check out. With this huge step towards making literature available without havin... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54627/rss 2012-05-17 18:15:44 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunrise on the beach at Hilton Head Island, in South Carolina. Can you hear the g... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54626/rss 2012-05-17 18:08:50 I went to the Kentucky Derby again this year. I was worried that maybe I would have such a similar experience this year as I did last that maybe I shouldn't even go. That definitely was not a problem.This year I thought I had gained some hard earned exper... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54625/rss 2012-05-17 16:32:00 Right now we are involved in the largest war games ever held in the middle east in Jorday with 20 or so other nations participating. Isn’t that grand And to top it off the President of Israel thinks the plan is worked out. This is so wrong in so ma... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54624/rss 2012-05-17 14:06:15 Since I know his mama is dying to see :) http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54623/rss 2012-05-17 12:00:12 * Whenever people say they’ll never buy another (fill in the blank) if taxes or fees are increased on that good or service, it’s probably not a good bet to believe them. Yes, it happens sometimes, but Illinois hiked tolls and barely saw any i... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54621/rss 2012-05-17 09:51:25 * These are valid points… If proposed Medicaid cuts become a reality, more than 10 percent of the state’s nursing home employees could be out of work, the head of a state nursing home organization said Wednesday. Pat Comstock, executive director o... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54620/rss 2012-05-17 09:23:32 There’s something about this time of year that always makes me wistful for the good old days—the simpler times, if you will—when all that mattered were family, friends, and a whole lotta blogging about everything under the sun. I miss those days... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54619/rss 2012-05-17 08:48:38 * Two polls show that despite all the media hype and rampant doom and gloom forecasts, Chicago-area residents support hosting the NATO summit this weekend. First up, Tribune…A total of 59 percent of voters in the six-county metropolitan area and 58... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54618/rss 2012-05-17 08:41:57 * This pic has been making the rounds…Hmm. http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54617/rss 2012-05-17 08:13:29 [The following is a paid advertisement.] ComEd is excited to announce the winners of our “Powerful Design” contest, in which Chicago-area architecture students were invited to created design concepts for a new training facility on Chicago’s South Si... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54615/rss 2012-05-17 07:53:47 * It’s more than a little ironic that the Ricketts family wants President Obama’s former chief of staff to provide them with a subsidy for their wreck of a ballpark while the family and its patriarch schemes to spend a fortune to defeat Obama ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54622/rss 2012-05-17 07:50:35 * It’s more than a little ironic that the Ricketts family wants President Obama’s former chief of staff to provide them with a subsidy for their wreck of a ballpark while the family and its patriarch schemes to spend a fortune to defeat Obama ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54616/rss 2012-05-17 07:50:35 yesterday afternoon i was taking a quick lunch break in between painting painting painting over at the duplex, sitting on the floor petting les.  mollie decided that there must be an intruder, so she started barking, which scared poor lester, and he bolt... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54614/rss 2012-05-17 07:27:22 On Monday FedEx secretly in stealth mode delivered our Black and Decker SPCM1936 Electric Lawn Mower. For some reason FedEx drivers in our town refuse to knock or ring a door bell to let us know they are there. I was home all day – had been outside ... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54613/rss 2012-05-17 00:32:41 Cement pond.* 15 Powerful Things Happy People Do Differently.* We could watch bastions removal all day, especially now that we know what bastions are.* A man. A game. Life:[he] sobbed. Not like a baby, but like a grown-ass man assessing his life's meanin... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54612/rss 2012-05-16 21:53:51 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Getting a good photograph can sometimes be done in the blink of an eye. Other tim... http://spfldbloggers.com/link/54611/rss 2012-05-16 20:53:11