​If you're like us and you still haven't found the ideal function for your costumed entourage to crash this weekend, perhaps these spots are worth sinking your vampire teeth into.More >>

​Want to flip open your smart phone and see how much energy your drafty old home is sucking off the power grid while you're slaving away at work? Want to share that data online for a little "green" competition with the neighbors? There's an app for all that. It's called the Google PowerMeter. It's free, too.More >>

​ This sculpture from the Fraconia Sculpture Park caught our attention this morning on Flickr. It's like our own Wizard of Oz, but not quite as awesome. We wouldn't mind seeing a little of thing at the Walker Sculpture Garden though.

Photo by nosha, more photos on Flickr.

Today on Citypages.com's 'In The Stream' with T.D. Mischke:

Faith Healing, Alien Abductions, Terrifying Music and various snippets of Phantasmagoria fill the "Stream" today. It's a cluttered mess, but it ain't pollution.

The stream runs clean, It's beauty, unseen.
Only your ears know where it veers
Ride and glide with the tide, people.
Enjoy some Q. Time with Quinton Skinner and the musings of the the mistress of music, Andrea Swensson.

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​ The Washington News Observer posted an interview with Rep. Michele Bachmann about the health care bill and managed to get some pretty money quotes to come out of her mouth. Not like it's really that hard to do so if you have a camera running and let her go off on her rants.

And if you listen to her interview, it seems like Bachmann wants all of us to drop what we are doing and come to Washington, D.C. pronto. Or else our country is screwed.

Some highlights:

• "This is socialization of America if this bill goes through."
• "This is it for freedom. If you believe in liberty and if you're rejecting tyranny, this is it ... What will it be? What will they choose?"
• "There's only one thing they want and that's government takeover of health care. It has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with government owning and controlling more of this economy. That's not what the American people want."
• "The bill says government has more control, the people have less. It will cost the American people more, government is going to go into bankruptcy. These are not good options for us. That's why everyone needs to come to Washington next week."

Watch the full interview and the highlights below.

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If there's any family that manages to ignore the ridiculous Vikings/Packers rivalry and welcome Brett Favre back to Lambeau Field this weekend, we found them. It's good to know one Wisconsin (or Minnesota) family doesn't live and die based on football drama.

Anna Walentowski, 11, met Favre in 2004 through the Make-a-Wish Foundation. She has a rare genetic disorder called Alexander disease.

"I like him," the Neenah girl said in the Appleton Post-Crescent. "He's my friend."

And her mom sums it up perfectly: It's a job and a game. Take a deep breath folks, seriously.

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During his tenure, Gov. Tim "no new taxes" Pawlenty has rankled liberals with his budget cuts to myriad social services. Now six residents are upping the ante and suing T-Paw over unilateral budget cuts he made without legislative approval.More >>

A hunter was prowling for pheasants deep inside the 13,000 acre Tiffany State Wildlife Area in western Wisconsin when he stumbled upon an unexpected, highly valuable find: 2,000 marijuana plant stalks worth about $2 million according to authorities.

Instead of indulging in the offerings, the unidentified citizen alerted the police who arrived shortly thereafter to discover a set-up apparently designed by an Apocalypse Now fan-- rinky dink booby traps surrounded the site, including rat traps and neck-level ropes evidently intended to clothesline egregiously oblvious/blind trespassers.

It's the second pot operation discovered on Wisconsin public land this month, the other being a 8,000 plant uncovered in eastern Wisconsin.

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​Peter R. Stibal II was a volunteer for a catholic youth association. He also worked as a substitute bus driver for special needs kids. And since 2003, he worked as both an assistant scoutmaster and scoutmaster, allegedly collecting a new type of merit badge that involves doing stuff to young men that even MJ wouldn't dream about. (Too soon?)More >>