May 10 is the 131sr day of the year.

* MPD: Statement updating Joel Marino homicide

* Mills: Every new day seems to bring further news of deeper problems and outrages regarding the Brittany Zimmermann case and the overall ability of emergency and police services to do their jobs well.

* WISC: Error Puts Nearly Everyone On Honor Roll At Sun Prairie High

* TCT Employees of Kraft Foods have been given class action status for their lawsuit seeking pay for time spent putting on and taking off safety equipment.

* WISC: Woodman's Workers Rally To Protest Store's Alleged Actions; Workers Accuse Store Of Trying To Break Union

* JustCoffee: Reception for Coffee Growers at Just Coffee on Sunday

May 9 is the 130th day of the year. On this day in 1960, the FDA announces it will approve the birth control pill Enovid, making it the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill (it is officially approved for use on June 23, 1960).

* WSJ: Police: Bring complaints to us, not media

* Forward: "The Madison Police Department should not be in media damage control mode. The only thing that will vindicate the police is by solving this Marino case (and others) and bringing the murderer to justice (and I most certainly want to see the police department vindicated)."

* TDP: Redacted report reveals nothing new on Brittany Zimmermann's 911 call

* Lueders: "...it’s no surprise that the May 8 joint committee meeting of the Dane County Board Public Protection and Judiciary Committee and Personnel and Finance Committee -- called in the aftermath of allegations that this call was mishandled -- did little to enlighten."

* TCT: 'World's Largest Coffee Break' takes a sip for fair trade

* 77Square: Women on wheels: Roller derby grows up

* Ald. Konkel: Why does WARF - the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - want the CDA to give them $300,000 for their $180M bond project? And what is CDA going to do with those Lake Point Condos?

* Eating in Madison A to Z: Lovshack

May 8 is the 129th day of the year. Today is V-E Day.

* BadgerBlogger: Did Madison police officials stonewall the media in Zimmermann 9-1-1 case? Read the internal emails here

* BH: Racial disparities plague Madison, study says

* WISC: Union Rep: 911 Dispatcher Denies Mishandling Call; Union Representative Says She Heard Call

* 77Square: Classic cars to take over State Street

* Fitzsimmons: The Kissers bid farewell to Madison

* City of Madison: New Public Art will be Unveiled at Cypress Park

* Lolo-Eatable: Muramoto Restaurant reviewed

May 7 is the 128th day of the year. On this date in 1956 the 35th million GM vehicle rolled off a production line in Janesville.

* BH: Falk admitted to several errors by the dispatcher who handled the call from Zimmermann’s phone, including missing “significant” sounds that were later heard in a detailed investigation.

* WISC: Falk's Admission Of Mistakes Could Be Used In Court

* AP: FBI statistics show the number of hate crimes nearly doubled in Wisconsin from 1996 to 2006

* DC: Health care in the state is in need of major reform, according to a recent poll, with over 61 percent of residents favoring a government administered health care system.

* BusinessWatch: Best Brews for BBQs (Wines too!)

* MadisonBeerReview: I thought this was about beer (and wine, too)? This is starting to sound like it's more about wine. Moreover, it doesn't look like this "expert" would know a good, Wisconsin beer if it came gift wrapped.

* Isthmus: Isthmus Jazz Festival announces 2008 schedule

* MoB: Updates on the SoCo Music Fest

* WISC: Marcus To Build Entertainment Complex In Madison

* Shilv: Do you believe the advertisements in the Onion are real?

May 6 is the 127th day of the year. On this date in 1937 the German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute.

* Dusty: Ogg Hall, a decades-old Madison institution in what - they - haven't - torn - that - thing - down - yet - ingness, is going to be an unfortunate feature in Madison's skyline for at least another handful of months.

* Mayor Osterhaus: Johnny Depp will be back in Columbus for filming on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

* WS: Expert calls Dane County 911 staffing inadequate

* TCT: Falk apologizes to Zimmermann's family, fiance

* BH: A city committee gave the go-ahead to a new apartment building in the Bassett Street area Monday that some see as an asset to the neighborhood and others view as an assault to the architecture and fluidity of the community.

* LetterFromHere: Reinforcing gender stereotypes in Madison

* PeepMyWords: Madison is a bit of an enigma - a city where people as smart and conceited as Northern Chi-sters still enjoy vomiting, Brett Favre, and self-deprecation as much as their fellow Killwaulkians is hard to define...

* Eisen: Ald. Brenda Konkel probably caught the prevailing vibe at city hall when she headlined her post on the IZ report with the casual summary: "Inclusionary Zoning Didn't Ruin the World."

* ForwardOurMotto ...if he would have read the blog entry that he referenced, it's right there in the first paragraph. So yeah, even if you don't like IZ, you can clearly see that Alder Konkel wants results (and she cites them in that blog entry too), and not just some nice sounding policy.

* Dane101 Better Living: Make Windows More Productive Without Installing a Thing

May 5 is the 126th day of the year. On this date in 1925 John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

* Hesselberg: 1968 murder at UW-Madison still stings

* StarTribune: Coen brothers considering Milwaukee instead of Minnesota for film set in St. Louis Park, Minn.

* DC: An interview with UW-alum Director Michael Mann

* Shilv: Madison and Milwaukee will soon welcome that con-artist who preys on underage scribblers and senile pedestrians with long-forgotten literary dreams.

* TCT: Ald. Mike Verveer wants to find an organizing group for the Mifflin Street Block Party that would turn it into a celebration instead of a beer party.

* BH: For the fifth year in a row, the Mifflin Street Block Party hit a record high in the number of arrests Saturday.

* BH: The owner of the property labeled “Worst House in Madison” by the Student Tenant Union last week is demanding a formal apology from the campus group for what he says “defamed” his name.

* WISC: Doctors Warn Allergy Season Worse This Year

* BroomStreetTheatre: Adapted from "The Ethical Slut" by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy, Multiple O tells the story of one couple's mis-adventures as they learned how to create a healthy non-monogamous lifestyle the hard way - by making every mistake in the book.

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."

May 2 is the 123rd day of the year.

* Ald. Konkel: "When I read things in the news like "He said he knew the men from a "crack house" in the 500 block of West Wilson Street, which abuts the backyard of Zimmermann's apartment." I just have to ask "OK - so who's the landlord who has a crack house?"

* WSJ Editorial: "Apologies, however, are not sufficient. The Madison area cannot be reassured about the 911 system until a full evaluation is completed to determine why the policy failed to produce a call-back to Zimmermann 's number."

* Dean: How do the Madison weeklies stack up?

* DC: Police gear up for Mifflin block party

* WISC: State Capitol Hearing Room Prepared For Filming Of Depp Movie

* MLK BLVD: Contradicting Chris Rock in Madison

* TDP: Madison Spring Gallery Night 2008 finds new venues on east side

* Kitty Grrrlz: This weekend I will be at the Hilldale Mall in Madison, Wisconsin for the "Artistic Accessories" show!

May 1 is the 122nd day of the year. Today is International Workers Day.

* TDP: Madison police believe Brittany Zimmermann called 911 before she was stabbed and beaten to death inside her Doty Street apartment, but the 911 Center failed to send help after erroneously concluding the call was a mistake.

* TCT: Hundreds of marchers will rally today in Madison to give support to immigrant and workers' rights.

* WISC: Police Search For Suspects In West Washington Shooting

* TCT: Construction of $4 million University Square sportsplex project on hold?

* MJS: The producers of "Public Enemies" have been granted a permit to shoot on the state Capitol grounds later this week, which includes the ability to create a "smoke-filled" room.

* WKOW: Some UW students are upset by a new rule limiting the amount of noise at this weekend's Mifflin Street block party.

* BH: Members of the Madison Library Board will consider a Madison developer’s proposal today to replace the Madison Public Library on the 200 block of Mifflin Street with a new building.

* WISC: Graffiti Increases In Madison, Monona; City Leaders Say They're Aware Of Problem

* WSJ: Since Madison formalized its resident-driven effort to "calm" traffic without the need for a stop sign or a police officer's ticket, the city has installed hundreds of speed humps, traffic islands, traffic circles and bump outs — at a cost of more than $1 million.

* Badger Blue: A more illuminating explanation — “over the last decade Madison, responding to requests from residents and neighborhoods, has added traffic circles to some roads, at an average annual cost of ‘over’ 43 cents per resident” — just doesn’t have the same punch

April 30 is the 121st day of the year. On this date in 1993 the World Wide Web was born.

* DC: ‘State of Black Madison’ report shows racial disparities in city

* Soglin: It is no surprise to Madisonians that a black youth has a thirteen times greater chance of being arrested than his white peer. We know that there are some in our state who look at that number and simply respond, "So? Blacks commit more crimes."

* BH: Law School shuts down ‘Sex Toys 101’ talk; Discussion would have included the dilDos and DilDon'ts

* Ali: "...as Madison grows, we have to stay vigilant and make more of an effort to know our neighbors and work together to protect our communities."

* BH: May Day protesters gear up for immigration rally

* Muzzle of Bees: Watch the Blueheels cover "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

* Madison Beer Review: Collecting all of the news from Wisconsin breweries

* Letter From Here: Is this the most photographed sign in Madison?

* Center for Photography: The Center for Photography in Madison is seeking submissions for a juried show of photography, Wisconsin Waters.

* Dane101 Green Living: 20 Things You Can Use Twice Before Tossing

April 29 is the 120th day of the year. Today is International Dance Day.

* WISC: Madison Ranks In Top 10 For Worst Homeowner Debt

* BH: Representatives from a local Madison bar called capacity restrictions a “catch-22” at a Capitol Neighborhoods meeting Monday evening, adding the constraints are preventing the business from generating sufficient revenue.

* BH: Internet giant Google will open an engineering office downtown in the fall that will be operated by two University of Wisconsin alumni

* DC: Poll says no clear favorite for presidential race in Wisconsin

* Nanowork: In May, 14 striking, larger-than-life photographic prints that are both comfortingly organic and starkly abstract will enable patrons of Mother Fool's Coffeehouse in Madison to visualize a scientific world that's rarely seen outside the laboratory.

* BFooter: Madison: one of the 10 best place to live and water ski

April 28 is the 119th day of the year.

* Shilv: "...it’s hard to discount the gutting that paved the Cap Times' future on the information superblogway. How do expelled staff plan to spend their time in the coming months?"

* Letter From Here: "...so many people have taken voluntary or involuntary severance packages that, under the best of circumstances, it won't be the same paper."

* ChicagoBoyz: "...since Madison is a very liberal place and people tend to think that everyone who is homeless is there because of the guy in the White House who just doesn’t care enough, their generosity and social benefits are very attractive. It is a commonly whispered item that homeless and the jobless move to Wisconsin to take advantage of a far more liberal system of subsidies when compared to Chicago."

* TDP: Battle at the Terrace: Breakin' the Law delivers 5inal sentence in Madison

* DC: Five Badgers go to NFL

* Dane101 Better Living: How to cook with the Sun

Good afternoon from Dane101's Department of Better Living! We've put together some quirky, funny, and/or just plain bizarre links to brighten up your lazy Sunday. Click on each description for a laugh (or WTF?! moment)

* YouTube: 35 seconds that will make you want a new toilet

* 23/6: If They IM'd: Old Bill Clinton and New Bill Clinton "In Bill Clinton's quest to turn off every person in the country win over voters for his wife, he's now claiming it's Barack Obama who's playing race politics."

* Pundit Kitchen: Political LOLZ site brought to us by I Can Has Cheezburger? View the toprated pictures and build your own

* Yankee Pot Roast: Diary of a Radioactive, Flesh-Eating Teen Zombie:"I’ve always wanted to suck her brains out through a straw because she keeps borrowing my lip gloss without asking."

* CollegeHumor: The Michael Showalter Showalter: Michael Cera (or as we like to remember him, George Michael Bluth)

* Slate: In keeping with Dane101 current hot topics: video detailing The World's Stupidest Bike Lanes

* McSweeneys: Straight from John McCain's Straight Talk Express: "Do you look fat in those new jeans? No. Do they look good on you? Unfortunately, not really. Why do you insist on wearing skinny jeans? I know that skinny jeans are fashionable, but they aren't for everyone."

April 25 is the 116th day of the year. Today is Red Hat Society Day.

* Josephson: Safety improvements on campus unconvincing

* Konkel: Putting the house back together

* TCT: Man stabbed at Dry Bean Saloon

* WISC: Man Assaulted On Campus Disc Golf Course; Police Say It Wasn't Random Act

* WYOU: Announcing the WYOU 36-Hour ON AIR Film Festival

* Rachel's Wisconsin Adventures: Madison is a pretty actively hippie town (I mean, it's no Boulder Colorado, but still), which results in a lot of protests/rallies/general public gatherings that have some relation to some sort of cause.

* Eating in Madison A to Z: Local Tavern

April 24 is the 115th day of the year.

* BH: As the Mifflin Street Block Party nears, the Madison Police Department said Wednesday they are increasing the number of cameras to monitor the celebration

* BH: Microsoft, UW announce plans for new lab downtown

* CityofMadison: Mayor Seeks to Keep City Spruced Up with "Mowtown" Program

* WISC: Union Reaches Agreement With CUNA Mutual Group

* DC: Where are the best fries in Madison?

* Wandering Wisconsin: Celebrate Madison! Festival 2008 this weekend

* Unexplained: The Unexplained Paranormal Conference in Madison this weekend