The local political machine located an early voting location no closer to the campus of Prairie View A&M University, so students at the historically black campus marched down a highway to vote.

Folks can vote for a new Texas license plate design at this site. The new plates will go into production in January 2009.

"The Texas Community Media Summit will bring together Texas community media makers, stakeholders, activists, and advocates on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Union."

This is the greatest newsreel clip ever.

I needed a real-world example of recursion for a seventh-grade math lesson I was writing last week. I wish I could have used this doozy.

Sean McCullough suggests that because Austin Ventures is the only major VC organization in Texas, smaller and more interesting startups are stymied in Austin and Texas.

Hector Amaya discusses the juvenile internment camp near Austin that houses kids waiting to be deported.

This doesn't require open standards as such, but is aimed at Microsoft's new Office standards. Now that pdf is an open standard, I wonder if there's some Adobe lobbying behind the scenes.

The movie Zyzzyx Road grossed a total of thirty dollars in its six-day run at a Dallas movie theater.

Via Nigel. Apparently, the camels imported to Texas in the 19th century "smelled horrible, frightened horses, and were detested by handlers accustomed to the more docile mules."

Pitchfork posts a follow-up on the police riot friday.

On Friday Houston police officers responded to a noise complaint at the indie rock venue Walter's on Washington by charging the stage and tasering members of the band Two Gallant, destroying a vintage upright bass in the process.

Wiki "devoted to the architecture and urban design of Austin, Texas."

DeLay's legal fund features a clip of Colbert's interview with Robert Greenwald on its site. Can they really be this dumb?

Longhorns, WebCams, and bad puns, oh my!

Nice little Web project by a former student. Make your own Dick Cheney headlines.

White House stalls big time on revealing Cheney's gunshot. The press conference today was awesome as reporters asked about the quality of information channels in the White House.