So the other day, I commented on the fact that Leffingwell had been endorsed by 50 Democratic precinct chairs and how cool would it be to have those on a map to see which areas of town their represented. Being a numbers and data visualization nerd, I have to say I was really excited to see a filled ...

These Tide t-shirts are being sold by P&G to support both feeding the hungry in America (yes, hard to believe I know, the most powerful country in the world can’t manage that) and to fund a Loads of Hope trucks to support areas in the US affected by natural disasters. Please write about t...

Hopefully, everyone who's planning on pouring into the Chicago Theater tonight to watch Bill Maher and Ann Coulter face off will take the time to read the reports from the appearances over the last couple nights - so they'll have an opportunity to head over to the box office and request their money ...

Bruce Schneier points to a piece on how child porn is distributed online. It involves sophisticated technology: As soon as the server is available, a qualified server admin connects to it via a chain of servers in various countries with the help of SSH on the new server. Today complete partitions ar...

I replied to a user in the comments yesterday who offered to send over a roundup of all the candidates that had filed for Dallas municipal races. Here are his thoughts. I'd be curious of course to hear more Dallas voices in the comments with their thoughts and maybe Byron or Kirk will weigh in as we...

Last night the first local club endorsements were issued. I presided over the running of the meeting where the Austin Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus and Stonewall Democrats of Austin issued their municipal endorsements. Here are the results. ALGPC Mayor: (Dual) Lee Leffingwell, Brewster McCracken Pl...

As reported by EQUALITY CALIFORNIA , this sign, "Dan White Hero. Killing A Queer" was sighted at the Prop 8 hearing last week as the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments against and for the Prop. For those of you that don't know, Dan White was the man who shot San Francisco Mayor George Mas...

Considering the fact that we have pretty much no rules and virtually no limitations on us, we decided to alter the scope of the 'cast this week. In this podcast - one conversation. Just the two of us. One Mr. Rob Christopher and myself, talkin' film festivals. The European Union Film Festival at the...

I really didn't want to start my 300th post here with another review, but after seeing the movie "Watchmen" today I had to. Seems that there is interest, so let the debate begin. First of all is this one that I recommend. I'd have to say that with an "enthusiastic" YES! Watchmen is yesterdays "Blade...

In my day-to-day 9 to 5 job I have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro. Yes it is expensive but it gets the job done quickly and properly when it has anything to do with PDF creation, modification and filling out forms.  But not everyone has such an expensive software suite installed on their machine. So w...