Ben Brown Takes on Myspace

Former Austinist editor Ben Brown's been busy with his current project, Consumating, formerly the hipster/geek equivalent of match.com. It looks like they've transformed the dating site into more of a social network ("a new way to find people who don't suck"), where one might find someone in their neighborhood -- or anywhere in the world, for that matter -- who's interested in, say, coffee and cigarettes.

Check it out here.