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You might have heard that ACL is this weekend. You might be aware that the lineup is, in this writer's opinion, the best it's been in years.

You might have even seen that the forecast does NOT call for sweltering heat, suffocating dust or anything else that could just as easily be from the Book of Exodus as real life in Austin, TX.

The city keeps trying to do nice things for cyclists, and their efforts keep going into the ditch (via Random Neural Misfirings)

At self-serve kiosks at San Francisco International Airport, travelers can now pay a fee to offset the carbon dioxide emissions of their trip.

The idea is that the money goes to stop emissions somewhere else or even to a forest that can absorb the carbon.

But will patrons get what they pay for?

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It's been public knowledge that the popular IM client Digsby comes bundled with opt-out crapware, and slightly more obscure knowledge that they commandeer your CPU cycles when idle.

As the rain-swollen Missouri and Kansas rivers overflowed their banks, I-Reporters jumped in their cars to document the damage, even driving to neighboring communities to check out the flooding.

Nikki Harmon-McKim snapped shots of roads cut off by floodwaters near her home in Falls City, Nebraska, and then headed to nearby Rulo, where she captured more images of the damage.