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Job Opportunity at Riverfront Times

​Riverfront Times is still seeking applications for an Editorial Assistant to keep our Editorial Department running smoothly. Candidates should: - Be detail-minded.- Possess excellent communications and writing skills.- Possess a knack for organizing and following through on complex projects.- ... More >>

Wouldn't You Like to Work for RFT?

​​Riverfront Times has an immediate opening for an Editorial Assistant to keep our Editorial Department running smoothly. Candidates should: - Be detail-minded. - Possess excellent communications and writing skills. - Possess a knack for organizing and following through on complex project ... More >>

iTunes Store, Wired Praise "Best Of" App

​Allow us to pat ourselves on the back for just a sec' after iTunes just named our "Best of" iPhone app as one of its five best travel apps of the year in its "Rewind" list. Wired also gave the app praise, writing that it's "what Yelp would be if only the cool kids could post reviews" and "provide ... More >>

Report: Hackers Steal Credit-Card Info from Restaurant Depot

​According to a report posted last night to Gawker, Russian hackers gained access to the credit-card information of customers at Restaurant Depot, the restaurant-supply store with locations nationwide, including at 6445 Manchester Avenue in St. Louis.The source for Gawker's report is, of all thing ... More >>

ACLU Sues Missouri School District for Blocking Student Access to LGBT Websites

​Last week we told you about how Internet software used by dozens of school districts in Missouri blocked student access to websites dealing with gay, lesbian and transgender issues. Now the ACLU of Eastern Missouri has sued one of those districts, which it says refuses to lift the block for its s ... More >>

Internet Filter for Missouri Schools Censored LGBT Websites

The Trevor Project was one of at least 23 LGBT issue sites blocked by Netsweeper.​Internet security software used by dozens of school districts in Missouri censored students from accessing websites dealing with LGBT issues. The Missouri Research & Education Network (MOREnet), a division of the ... More >>

BuzzE: Has Local Entrepreneur Brett Rosen Created the New Facebook?

Image viaNew social networking iPhone app BuzzE shows users potential friends nearby.​In May 2010, Brett Rosen walked into a San Francisco restaurant and noticed that almost everyone sitting at the bar was fiddling with a smartphone. That's when he got the idea. If people at a bar are going to ... More >>

Missouri School Illegally Censoring the Internet, Draws ACLU Attention

Don't tread on my access to health information.​Updated at 4:50 p.m. with comment from school district's attorney.Updated at 3:30 p.m. with comment from the school superintendent.A school district in central Missouri is illegally censoring the internet, the ACLU says, and the organization is deman ... More >>

The Cover of the March 31 Print Edition

Don't tread on my access to health information.​Updated at 4:50 p.m. with comment from school district's attorney.Updated at 3:30 p.m. with comment from the school superintendent.A school district in central Missouri is illegally censoring the internet, the ACLU says, and the organization is deman ... More >>

Check Out Our Brand New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

Check Out the RFT's New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

Check Out The Brand New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

Gut Check Modifies Commenting System

And now for a brief peek behind the scenes at Gut Check International Headquarters: Beginning today, Gut Check and the other Riverfront Times blogs require readers to complete a "Captcha" field when leaving a comment. You have probably encountered this system on other websites. If not, all you have ... More >>

iHelp for Autism: The iPad opens up new worlds for autistic children

And now for a brief peek behind the scenes at Gut Check International Headquarters: Beginning today, Gut Check and the other Riverfront Times blogs require readers to complete a "Captcha" field when leaving a comment. You have probably encountered this system on other websites. If not, all you have ... More >>

Fine Feathered Fracas

And now for a brief peek behind the scenes at Gut Check International Headquarters: Beginning today, Gut Check and the other Riverfront Times blogs require readers to complete a "Captcha" field when leaving a comment. You have probably encountered this system on other websites. If not, all you have ... More >>

Spamming Brothers from Mizzou Face Eight Years in Federal Clink [Updated]

image via​There is justice in the world after all. After five years and eight million spam e-mails, two Mizzou alumni, brothers Amir and Osmaan Shah, have been convicted of jamming people's in-boxes with ads for cheap cameras and tooth-whiteners. (Perhaps there is a connection.) During their ... More >>

Thomas Lowery: East Alton Man Guilty of Sharing Heinous Porn Collection on Limewire

Limewire: The least disgusting Google image search related to this story.​Heaven knows there's been an epically disgusting porn collection or two (or two million) shared on the old Interwebz but it's hard to imagine anything more repulsive than the horde of filth accumulated and offered up for fre ... More >>

Schlafly Beer's New iPhone App: A Gut Check Test Drive

[Editor's note: Schlafly Beer debuted its smart-phone app last month, and we asked two Gut Check bloggers, Robin Wheeler and Andrew Veety, to take it for a spin. Below, their respective reviews.] Robin Wheeler's take: ​Everyone loves a good shiny thing. Press a button and receive yummy tidbi ... More >>

How Big is the Gulf Oil Spill in Comparison to St. Louis?

Pretty damn big, as this Google Earth mock-up reveals:That's an oil spill, not a Rorschach test.​Thee map reflects the size -- about 2,500 square miles -- of the Deepwater Horizon spill as of May 6. The leak is still gushing out at least 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day with no end in sight as ... More >>

Rivers' Return

Pretty damn big, as this Google Earth mock-up reveals:That's an oil spill, not a Rorschach test.​Thee map reflects the size -- about 2,500 square miles -- of the Deepwater Horizon spill as of May 6. The leak is still gushing out at least 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day with no end in sight as ... More >>

Video: Justin Kockott, 19, Smashes Brand New iPad with Aluminum Baseball Bat

​Justin Kockott, a 19-year-old Pittsburgh high school student, is enjoying his fifteen minutes of Internet fame today after he smashed his $499 iPad with a baseball bat. If you were burned out by the hype over this latest Apple gadget, you're sure to enjoy this video. The LA Times intervi ... More >>

Google Renames Itself Topeka = Bad News for St. Louis

Happy April 1, a.k.a. April Fool's Day. In perhaps the best joke -- thus far -- today, the search engine Google has renamed itself after the Kansas City of Topeka. This is what you see today when you google, uh, Google.​So what's the deal with the name change, and why is it bad for us here in St. ... More >>

Mac Users Get Google Chrome (Finally)

​Yesterday Google made the the beta version of the Chrome Web browser available for Mac and Linux users. This is almost exactly a year after the browser was launched (in beta) for Windows. Why the long delay? Nobody knows. It's very likely the case that Google was concentrating its efforts at aimi ... More >>

CloudCamp STL Rolls into Town on Thursday

CloudCamp is coming to St. Louis this Thursday. CloudCamp is a conference that's structured in a similar way to a BarCamp except that it's all about cloud computing. Cloud computing is basically running applications and using other IT resources over the Internet (the "cloud") rather than on your des ... More >>

Zhu Zhu Pets Big Hit on Cyber Monday

​It's a good time to be an owner/investor in the St. Louis-based toy company Cepia LLC. Internet searches for the company's Zhu Zhu Pets is off the charts today -- Cyber Monday -- the biggest online shopping day of the year. By late this morning Google labeled Zhu Zhu Pets as "on fire" after thous ... More >>

I'm guessing your password is 123456

Phishing scams seem to have spiked in recent weeks on email systems like Hotmail and Gmail according to the BBC. A lists of thousands of usernames and passwords from Hotmail, Gmail and other services have been surfacing here and there around the Internet. This comes after a report in August from IBM ... More >>

The Great Google Wave Spaz-Out of 09

Photo by Sam Howzit via Flickr (creative commons attribution 2.0)​Last week Google sent out the first batch of 100,000 invites for their new collaboration product Google Wave, resulting in the most ridiculous jockeying for invites since Joost a couple of years back. Twitter went crazy with otherwi ... More >>

Oh iPhone! Is there Anything You CAN'T Do?

It takes photos, plays music and video, you can browse the web, it even catches criminals. What can't the iPhone do? Not much, apparently. Apple's iPhone store has been an incredible success -- 2.4 billion worth of success. Proving that the iPhone is way more than just a phone. It's the worlds first ... More >>

Apple Name-Checks Highway Farty (Sorta)

Unreal's got nothing against Apple, but we were briefly puzzled to see, amid the computer maker/geek cult's hype for the newest iteration of its OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, the highway sign for Interstate 64:​What could this mean?

Ten Tech Releases to Look for this Fall

Photo by Marcin Wichary via Flickr​It's August. The economy is bad. Things are slow, but technology marches on. In spite of the global economic slowdown, there will still be plenty of new high-tech products to look forward to this fall. A lot of them will actually be cheaper (even Apple has lowere ... More >>

Are You Ready to Augment Your Reality? [Fun With iPhone]

Most people have heard of virtual reality and probably have at least some vague idea of what that is. But have you heard of augmented reality? Well it's coming to your iPhone 3gs this fall. In case you don't know what augmented reality is (and unless you're a sci-fi geek you probably don't) it's a h ... More >>

Google Continues its Quest for World Domination with Google Voice

I finally got my Google Voice invite last week. Voice is Google's move into what has traditionally been the domain of the big telephone companies. The service is still in private beta, which means that you have to get an invite to try it out. It's very likely Google will roll out voice in a similar ... More >>

Become a True Baseball Nerd in One Easy Step!

Every year, the day after the All Star Game in the host city, there takes place an event which is, in my ever so humble opinion, quite a bit more interesting that the game itself. The Annual Symposium on Statistics in Sports is just what it sounds like- a gathering of some of the biggest nerds you'v ... More >>

Work for the RFT!

Riverfront Times has an immediate opening for an Editorial Assistant to keep our Editorial Department running smoothly. Candidates should be: - Detail-minded.- Possess excellent communications and writing skills.- Possess a knack for organizing and following through on complex projects. This positi ... More >>

Wouldn't You Like to Work for the RFT?

Riverfront Times has an immediate opening for an Editorial Assistant to keep our Editorial Department running smoothly. Candidates should be: - Detail-minded.- Possess excellent communications and writing skills.- Possess a knack for organizing and following through on complex projects. This positio ... More >>

The Verdict Is In: Hulu's Desktop Client is AWESOME!

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

Hack Me, Baby: Unreal gets down and dirty with an ethical hacker

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

The Cover of the October 23 Print Edition

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

You Be the Manager: Change the Cardinals Lineup

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

Monarch's Web Site Hacked

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

The First Frontier

A few months back there was a little dust-up between Hulu and the makers of an Internet video desktop client called Boxee. Boxee is a great little application for navigating videos and other media on your computer or on the Internet onto an interface that's designed to be navigable from ac ... More >>

Soup, Sandwich and Censorship

"Questionable" material is filtered off the menu at Saint Louis Bread Co.

Potato Peeled

Who bumped Frank "Couch Potato" Weltner from the Internet? Blame it on the Jews.

Series/Festivals

Week of February 18, 2004

What's the Last Thing You Mooched Off Someone?

Week of December 12, 2001

Hack Mentality

At 28, Spuds has become a cybersage for the young and the reckless. Now he's gone straight.

Village Person

St. Louis art collector Gregg Smith shares his passion, the work of 1980s New York artists, in a new exhibition

Which Cybercrime Activity Worries You Most?

St. Louis art collector Gregg Smith shares his passion, the work of 1980s New York artists, in a new exhibition