Bodyhacking!
Today I wrote about this past weekend’s BodyHacking Con over at Last Night In Austin. Update: You can also view my experience on Storify. Given I was wearing a fracture boot during the event,...
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It’s Less Than a Month to SXSW! Eeek!
I don’t know about you, but it’s less than a month until “the monster that ate March” otherwise known as South by Southwest. That’s when the whole world comes to Austin and everything happens....
SXSW OVERLOAD: WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN… [FIELD REPORT]
It’s Grumpy Cat’s world, we just live in it. (Photo: Anna Hanks) We Promise That We Aren’t Making This Stuff Up: A Field Report on SXSW Interactive and Film from an Embedded...
Austin Public Library Branch Offering Mystery Book Dates!
It often seems that the way we celebrate Valentine’s Day in this country is all about making single people feel bad and getting couples to spend money on each...
Naked Mole Rat “Action” At The Houston Zoo
Zoos have a lot of things: they have feeding times, cute baby animals and lots of stylish creatures sporting always fashionable cheetah, giraffe, leopard and zebra prints!
Yet as nearly anyone who has ever been to the zoo knows, practically the most exciting thing that can happen during your zoo visit is catching two animals in the process of making more animals. That means anytime you head to the zoo and find a crowd assembled—what you’ve often stumbled across is two beasts making the beast with two backs.
The Buck Stops In Whitehouse, Texas…
Earlier this month there was an unusual “deer attacks man” encounter in the East Texas hamlet of Whitehouse,Texas. The incident described below is not a Saturday Night Live skit nor a report from one of the...
The City of Austin has a Free Microchip and Tag Offer For Your Pets
There’s nothing more frustrating than trying to teach your furry family members how to clearly enunciate their own street address and phone number. Even if you do manage to teach your doggie your digits,...
Al Franken in Austin: A Broadcast from Out of the Past
Cameraphone pic of Al Franken and Paul Sicard! When my husband was the only person in town to win tickets* to the live broadcast of the Al Franken Show, I was so excited. I would...
Campus Polo Clubs Are Few but Ardent
Most college polo players come to the sport knowing how to ride a horse, but never having played polo. Terry Jones, the faculty adviser for the New Mexico State club, says most of the polo players are from small agricultural communities in that state.
