This MySQL role-playing game might be a good way to learn the syntax. Or it may just be a good way to get frustrated and bored.

A Facebook group encouraged members to write "This is Sparta" on their AP Literature exam essays.

I'm counting the days until the nineties come back. I never quit wearing flannel shirts, so I am ready!

"The band should be an active rock band, with a music genre consisting of Southern Rock, Pop Rock, Post-Grunge and Hard Rock. At least one member of the band should be recognizable as a professional celebrity."

Wouldn't you think if you made an awesome squirrel feeder, they would use a squirrel rather than a skunk in the promotional shot?

My mom is addicted to little digital timers; I may have to get her this iPod-inspired timer for Christmas.

oh dear, it's T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" translated into lulz.

I'm not sure the malady is seeing the president in those fugly plastic clogs, but the fancy personalized socks that accompany them.

This feed of pages tagged "lolcats" on del.icio.us is rendered as lolcats.

Not even Big Bird was immune to the great Austin bird die-off of 2007.

The US Army has introduced a strategy game that pits a futuristic American army against insurgents... the only problem is that the Americans can't lose.

Weird "Punk!" pinball machine from 1982.

The NFL has asked teams not to play Glitter's stadium classic "Rock and Roll Part 2" at games after the glam rocker was convicted of child molestation charges in Vietnam.

Here's a Flash-based "personality quiz" promoting careers at the CIA. The quiz told me I'm an "impressive mastermind" and encouraged me to "pursue the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency on behalf of our nation."

Video footage from the local paper of the Austin pillow fight.

Craigslist post announcing a mass pillow fight in Austin.