Skip To The 'Lou

LOCAL BLOG: Allison is a South-sider in love with St. Louis and its potential. Her blog, Skip To The 'Lou, is meant to be part of the renaissance and features musings on St. Louis' neighborhoods, art, culture, politics and more. Get a taste of city living at stlrenaissance.blogspot.com.

popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz

Stay excruciatingly up-to-date on the latest news and web buzz at popurls. Popurls aggregates popular and recent links from nearly 20 group blogs and social media sites ensuring that you know everything there is to know about what's happening now -- whether or not you need to know. Pop on over to www.popurls.com.

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Most of the standing features in Everyday section were given over to the 115 hot things feature. No local blog this week.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Tuesday marks the 27th anniversary of Skylab's demise. Five years after the last mission, solar activity had decayed the space station's orbit and it reentered the atmosphere. NASA's nerves were frazzled as thousands of guys in ties hoped it would burn up over an unpopulated area. It did, and the re-entry display was spectacular -- for a few people in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia -- but you can see amazing space sights every day at NASA's long-running Astronomy Picture of the Day. Space out at: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov.

Kiddley

Summer vacation is here and the kids are home all day -- and driving you crazy. You need Kiddley, a weblog filled with bright ideas and fun craft projects for parents to enjoy with their kids. Says editor Claire Robertson, "Kiddley is about taking a little time out every day to remember how exciting childhood (and parenthood) can be with just a tiny bit of imagination." Kid around at www.kiddley.com.