May 3 is the 124th day of the year.

* WSJ: "A visit to the 911 center on Friday and a demonstration of what happens when a cell call is received there shows there are limits to the information received from such a call, especially if there is no voice contact with the caller.Even Madison Police Chief Noble Wray appears to have overestimated the capabilities of the system when it comes to finding a caller who has dialed 911 on a cell phone."

* Capper: Mark Belling's radio show takes a very non-PC stance towards the MPD

* Whetstone: "It is mildly interesting that in Madison, the supposed hotbed of socialism and the Berkley of the Midwest, it is the liberal newspaper that bites the dust."

* Channel3000: Marino family requests help from the state in investigating Joel Marino's murder

* ShilvShillShine: Notes from the Antiwar Stump

* Dustin Christopher: "I received a response to a recent piece I wrote about the Madison Police Department's planned response to the Mifflin Street Block Party, and even if it's not legit, with all the ragging I've been doing on the PD lately, I have some 'splainin' to do."

*AP:"Thousands of college students will gather Saturday for the annual Mifflin Street Block Party, where students party hop between houses stocked with kegs and beer bongs start flowing about 8 a.m.But the spring celebration comes just one month after the slaying of University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann in her apartment a few blocks away."