News Bits: Web 2.0 to Lose Friends, District-Based Voting & Naive Art
- Science Times celebrates the 50th anniversary of Sputnik, which changed everything - history, geopolitics, the scientific world.
- The US dollar hit to new record low against the euro as investors fretted about a world credit crunch.
- The Democratic chairman of a House committee complained Tuesday that the State Department was blocking his panel’s efforts to investigate the private security firm Blackwater USA and its operations in Iraq.
- How To Lose All Your Friends Immediately, In Real Time.
- Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who spent 33 years of his life building an "Ideal Palace" which is regarded as an extraordinary example of naïve art architecture.
- A special effects technician working on the new Batman film was killed when a vehicle he was in crashed while on a stunt test run.
- The City has formed a committee to consider whether Austin should move to some system of district-based voting.
Contact the author of this article or email tips@austinist.com with further questions, comments or tips.
