Former Austin mayor and current Texas State Senator Kirk Watson made an appearance on MSNBC last night after officially endorsing Senator Barack Obama. When asked by Chris Matthews to list just a few of Obama's legislative accomplishments, Watson looks stumped, and then only manages to respond with a weak, 'Well, I am not going to be able to name you specific items." From the Huffington Post: But he was unable to answer Chris Matthews......

The "ponytail bandit" has been identified as Morgan Michelle Hoke and is married to another bank robber; both have fled to Asia after a string of local bank robberies. Local robber targeting the homes of Austin Hispanics, police say. Dell to buy locally-based MessageOne Inc. for $155 million. Rep. Lloyd Doggett has yet to endorse Obama or Clinton. But former mayor (and current State Senator) Kirk Watson endorses Obama....

As smart as we think we are, we can barely remember the names of the people were introduced to yesterday. Dolphins have us beat, damn brilliant creatures. The energy-producing windmills that are supposed to be uber-environmentally-friendly have some bird lovers in a tizzy. Is anyone else eerily bothered by the Grackles? We're thinking we need some of those windmills scattered around town. Incidentally- Grackles are known for imitating human speech better than parrots. C.R.E.E.P.Y.......

Technology and policy bigwigs from around the world descend on Austin this week for the World Congress on Information Technology. Expect much news about the-world-is-flat-this, Richard-Florida-Creative-Class-that, and maybe even a Colin Powell sighting at Emo's or Home Slice. While the marquee names like Powell and some dude named Dell will likely attract most of the attention this week, local wigs-not-quite-so-big kicked things off today in a peripheral event called Digital Regions. Mayor Will Wynn,......