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As we move to the next square on the calendar you're still out there trying to make a connection. Sadly you let most of them slip by without saying a word. We understand, no one wants to be overzealous and get shot down. If only you had some place to find a second chance. Oh yes, Missed Connections. If only you had someone to sort through and find the best of the above. Oh, right, read below....

Vandals are smashing SUV rear windows around town and not stealing anything. Austin Energy's fuel charge goes up in January. Trinity U. school officials discover multiple firearms in a student's dorm room after the student checks out for winter break.

Cop shot in the foot during early morning shootout near Montopolis. UT student Daniel Toole fell to his death from Goodall Wooten dorm this weekend. Public universities in Texas cost more than the national average (for the second year in a row). UT won a state landscape preservation award (over a week ago) for their transplanting of live oaks during stadium renovation. Two kids in a family on their way to visit their wounded...

Wall Street has faith in the Texas economy Dell scores low in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index A boy swimming in Lake LBJ contracts a fatal strain of meningitis and is now fighting for his life at the Dell Children's Medical Center. Austinist wishes you well, kiddo. A 9-year-old was responsible for one of the Dollar General fires Is Whole Foods buying Wild Oats just to take 'em out? Customs officials in Hidalgo confiscate...

Downtown Austin played host to a minor car chase this past weekend, when a man who'd approached several people at gunpoint attempted to flee in his SUV. A some point around closing time early Saturday morning, a 9-1-1 caller alerted police that a man waving a gun had been hassling a group of folks in the Red River District, between Sixth and Seventh streets. Police later tried to flag down his Ford SUV after they...

More on the bus accident this morning . . . A Capital Metro bus crashed into an office building earlier today after hitting an SUV; the SUV's driver didn't yield at a side street. The bus driver and one of the passengers were seriously injured on their Medical Parkway route, between 45th and 38th Street; four other passengers are in the hospital with minor injuries. A few more passengers and the driver of the SUV...

A father and son were walking home from church last night in the Capital Plaza area (around Cameron Rd. and Reinli) when they were robbed. After taking everything the immigrant family had on them, the robbers shot and killed the teenage boy, in front of his father. If you were in the area behind Popeye's Chicken and the Austin Cornerstone Church last night around 10pm and witnessed anything, please call 477-3588 (the homicide tip...

It was a fun-filled weekend with some so-so weather, let's hope that it didn't stop you from making some connections. Let's put off that global warming thingy as long as possible. It'll be 100 degrees before ya know it, and it's hard to look hot when you're sweaty. If you haven't yet had a chance to check for yourself you can read our collection of last week's Missed Connections... beauty bar 1 year anniversary...

Blues Traveler frontman John Popper was arrested in Washington earlier today, after state patrol officers clocked the vehicle he was in going at 111 miles per hour. The driver of the black Mercedes SUV was 34-year-old Austinite Brian Gourgeois.

A week after a woman fell down a manhole in a South Texas Wal-Mart, a fellow decided to steal a television from one of the bargain retail giant's Northeast Austin shops last night.

Total annual budget for University of Texas system: $10 billion Number of cell phones confiscated from three "Texas citizens of Pakistani descent," which police alleged could be used in setting off explosives or making meth: 1,000 Cost of renovating Carl's Corner truck stop on I-35 to include a hotel, saloon, and possible golf course, rebadged as Willie's Place in honor of investor Willie Nelson: $5 million Length of sentencing, in years, that 35-year old...

A woman driving alone near the town of Mexia, 40 miles east of Waco, was run off the road, kidnapped, raped, beaten, and left for dead in the early hours on Wednesday morning.

• Every state in the United States has failed to meet Bush's already low standards for the No Child Left Behind Program.
• Apparently. there isn't enough of a demand to get those gas-guzzling, extravagant SUV's; GM is nixing the original Hummer.
• Hideki Matsui's streak of 1,768 consecutive games played (US and Japan leagues) ends.
• Will Wynn and Brewster McCracken were both re-elected in this weekend's election.
• The Senate reached a delightful conclusion regarding School Finanace Reform essentially concluding their special session.
• A volcano in Indonesia is about to blow her wad! The Merapi Volcano is spewing lava all over the place forcing villagers to get the F^$% out!
• Sprawl is encroaching on Florida Alligators' habitats. Three deaths in a week by alligators have locals concerned about safety.
• Buckle-up Bubba! Men in rural areas that drive trucks are still not in the habit of fastening their seatbelts when they drive on those country roads.
• The incestuous world of technology is at it again. Soon, cell phones and iPods will be one in the same.
• Download porn to your television. Yeah, a pornmaker almost makes owning a TV worthwhile now.
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The 19th Annual Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (aGLIFF) is less than half a year away, and they're currently looking for submissions of LGBT films and videos, including features, shorts, documentaries and animations ("especially encouraged" are applications from "women, people of color, and southwest regional filmmakers"). They're also actively looking for volunteers to help out with putting it all together, whether your area of expertise is in PR, Film Programming, Web Apps Development, or...

"I saw Kenny Rogers outside Time Square Studios this morning at 9ish. He was sitting in his black SUV and telling his fans that he would take care of them 'next time.' He looked exactly like he's had a ridiculous amount of work done." Who gives a damn?! Don't you people have jobs? Or hobbies? Or something? Gawker.com one of the leaders in celebrity gossip on the internet for the past two years has...

Breaking News on the SXSW circuit: We just got word that Perry Farrell just dropped in to Uncut's party at Mean Eyed Cat. The front man for Jane's Additction played ONE SONG, jumped back in an SUV and was whisked away. One song? That's Rock Star. We didn't get confirmation on the song played, so if you feel like being a little SXSW gossip, let us know. *There has been some grumblings that Jane's...

• Nobody likes a Hummer. The gas-guzzling and impractical GM Luxury SUV is having a pretty hard time getting support from the music industry for their advertising.
• TXDOT is planning to close several ramps and access roads along I-35 in Round Rock to accomodate the Interstate 45 Toll Road.
• Because kids these days are fat, some school systems are implementing a system that helps incompetent parents control monitor their child's eating habits.
• Referred to as the Internet's Red-Light District, myspace.com is under scrutiny again. Many fear that this site and others similar to it encourage predatorial behavior.
  
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-The death toll in Pakistan and surrounding countries has exceeded 20,000, with countless more bodies yet to be recovered in what was the most devastating earthquake to hit South Asia in the last century. Aid agencies estimate that over 120,000 people are in "urgent need of shelter." The magnitude-7.6 quake struck on Saturday near the northeastern border of Kashmir and Pakistan. Austinist asks that you leave links to donation sites in the comments section. -Boy...

Although we are by no means experiencing any of the havoc from Hurricane Katrina that our neighbors in Louisiana are going through, the effects we are feeling are hitting us in the wallet. We all expected this to happen, and true to form, gas prices have been going up since Monday.

Hot on the tails of the smoking ban, which took one of life's difficult choices out of the hands of competent personal decision makers and put it into the hands of an unweildy beaurocracy, AUSThIN is on a crusade to make more decisions for you!