News Bits
- Remember how Beyonce fell on her ass at a concert and said she didn't want anyone posting videos of it? The folks at Shout Mouth have compiled their Top Ten Most Embarrassing Stage Falls (with video accompaniment, of course).
- Do you remember the last State of the Union when Bush honored Julie Aigner-Clark, founder of Baby Einstein (a series of infant educational programs)? Yeah...those programs don't actually work.
- Scary: Shitload of Germans pile on train en route to soccer match. Scarier: There's only one beer tap. Even Worse: The tap doesn't work. German Ingenuity: Stop the train, emergency order new tap, special delivery via taxi.
- A group of bloggers are defending their right to have creepy obsessions with fictional characters played by teenagers.
- Since half of Austin is from Houston anyway: Houston just got Google Street View.
- Coming sooner than you think to Downtown Austin: a Manhattan condominium is offering free sex classes for their residents.
- New Zealand couple hopes to name their baby son 4Real. A New Zealand court rules against it. The couple goes with their second choice, even worse than the first.
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