A Straight Dope message board member attempted to waterboard himself, then shared all the details. It's as close to feeling tortured as most of us will ever experience. A hundred years after Freud, one man may have figured out why we dream. You'll never think the same way about nightmares again. Exhaustive Sesame Street video archive makes searching for your favorite old clips easier than ever. Oh, and maybe your kid will be into......

There’s a way to fundraise, that is. Established painter, photographer, and filmmaker William Wegman has a series of short works that will screen this Thursday, September 6th at The Design Center of Austin to benefit EmanciPET. It’s a collaboration made in doggy heaven, given that Wegman’s subjects are most often his own Weimaraners – a German breed of dogs known for their beautiful coats and haunting, gray eyes. On the subject of his medium-crossing......

The Austinist grew up with Sesame Street. We could even say we survived on it, and there are still VHS tapes of old recorded episodes in our parents’ house. So when we heard about the proposed budget cut for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we were more than a little appalled. Fortunately, public broadcasting won a reprieve yesterday as the House voted (284-140) to restore the $100 million cut to the $400 million budget.......

Soon, we'll be able to add the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and all the good they've done this country to the list of progressive measures our country has taken over the last 100 years, a list that already includes Social Security, the Kyoto treaty, and innumerous social and governmental practices, that the Bush administration has attempted to dismantle. In what seems to us like an effort to silence all dissenting press, even if that......