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- Sidewalks are returning to Shoal Creek Boulevard. The new sidewalks will replace the curb islands created last year in order to slow down traffic.
- UT redshirt freshman Colt McCoy will be the starting quarterback in this weeks game against North Texas.
- Universal Music Group's massive catalog of music will soon be available for free legal downloads.
- One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted is now in custody. Warren Steed, fugitive leader of a polygamist Mormon sect, was arrested in Nevada while cruising for more under aged girls to add to his harem.
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wants to have a TV debate with Bush.
- Reports are surfacing that Natascha Kampusch, the girl abducted and held prisoner for eight years, is carrying the baby of her abductor.
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Warren Steed Jeffs is unbelievably creepy. Glad they finally caught him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Steed_Jeffs
Oh god, please don't repeat the retardery of news 8 austin. They don't 'replace' the curb islands; the curb islands were in the BIKE LANE. The sidewalks are brand new; there were not sidewalks before.
Coverage of the entire debacle (minus recent fluffery) at: http://mdahmus.monkeysystems.com/blog/archives/cat_the_shoal_creek_debacle.html
Could we please stop spending huge amounts of money for various forms of concrete installation/removal/installation on Shoal Creek? Aren't there starving children or something who need that money? Jeez.
Okay, I'm done.
darn it and we were going to do a whole post and everything.....shoot!