Subject: Websites

• Solidarity, Baby

  October 23, 2007

• Cover Story: Saving Lobo from Montgomery County's Animal Control Department

  February 7, 2008

• SXSW Day 1: Tricks of the Trade

  March 12, 2008

• Social Distortion: Did Shallow Social Media Sink Susan Boyle?

  You probably had no idea who the hell Susan Boyle was seven weeks ago. And if you'd seen her mugshot, you probably wouldn't have cared. 'Twas easy to judge the homely, have-not warbler by her cover - 'til she opened her mouth, that is. In a flash, The Woman Who Shut Up Simon Cowell was a household name the world over, fueled primarily by the most notorious wavemaker of all - YouTube. Next thing you knew, your co-workers were gushing that Boyle's performance made them weep into their lattes.

  June 1, 2009

• Serial Killers On-line

  Victim advocates condemn sales of murder-related items

  October 28, 1999

• Welcome Back to Work...

  So, the boss made you come in the day after Thanksgiving, huh? Yeah, and we're guessing there isn't a whole lot to do seeing as how everyone else's boss gave them the day off. (Luckily for us, the news never rests! ... or something.) Well, nod off not, Internet friends. Hair Balls is here with links to Web sites to help pass (read: waste) time until your boss says "Hey, since you came in the day after Thanksgiving, why don't you leave an hour early." Really, a whole hour? You shouldn't have. (

  November 28, 2008

• Will Blog for (Free) Food?

  It must be an interesting time to own a restaurant. On the one hand you're pummeled by a shrinking economy and rising food costs. On the other hand you're assailed by a growing number of (mostly uncredentialed) food bloggers ready to pounce on even the slightest misstep and proclaim your restaurant an unmitigated failure. Even a few years ago food bloggers wouldn't have registered a blip on a restaurateur's radar. But a funny thing happened on the way to making a dinner reservation. People star

  December 22, 2008

• My Prayer (Is To Be On An E-Mail List)

  Hair Balls is now being prayed for by a network of faithful across America. And it's free. (We think.) A Houston-based company called My Prayer Initiative offers the service (we'll get back to that), which, according to them, is the first of its kind.The press release My Prayer Initiative sent over says, "As this country prepares for one of the most memorable and historic events, Martin Luther King Holiday Celebration and the 44th Presidential Inauguration, the MyPrayer Initiative invites Amer

  January 19, 2009

• The Post is Dead (Again)

  April 11, 1996

• The City Of Houston Takes On Orbitz And Priceline

  The City of Houston and the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority are currently suing multiple travel websites such as Orbitz and Priceline over tax revenues it claims the sites owe it. Online travel sites pay wholesale prices to hotels for rooms and then customers book those rooms at a mark-up from that wholesale price. The sites pay taxes on the wholesale price, and keep whatever is made from the customer booking the room at the marked-up price.Houston, along with cities and counties across t

  February 11, 2009

• Dish

  January 21, 1999

• Honey, It's Not What You Think

  After more than forty years of marriage, there are few gifts a husband hasn't already given his wife. But local man Shelly Neider has managed to find one."One year ago Shelly Neider of Houston wanted to give his high school sweetheart and wife of over 40 years a gift to express his love," Becky Lewis of Danielides Communications, Inc. in New York writes in what has to be one the best press releases ever sent to Hair Balls. "Over the course of their lives together he had purchased enough jewelry,

  April 8, 2009

• Local Guy's Suit Against Pat Robertson Helped By Racism From Pat Robertson's Students

  New evidence may help a Spring man prove the freedom of expression case he's filed in federal court claiming that Regent University, founded by televangelist Pat Robertson in Virginia, unconstitutionally kicked him out of school for posting a picture on the Internet of Robertson scratching his face with his middle finger extended. Former Regent University law student Adam Key made national headlines when, the lawsuit claims, he was banned from classes in 2007 after he posted the picture of Rober

  April 14, 2009

• For Sale: the Remains of Burt Reynolds's Career, Plus: An Odd Couple of Entrepreneurs

  Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  April 16, 2009

• Girl In A Coma

  December 11, 2008

• Best Sports Bar

  Nick's Sports Bar & Grill

  September 20, 2001

• Caught In The Net

  August 21, 2008

• Denny's Adopts Rock Bands

  The diner chain now serves up a little rock on the side

  June 5, 2008

• Shula's Steakhouse

  June 5, 2008

• Leslie & the LY's

  February 21, 2008

• “Lawndale Has Many Friends”

  Brian Piana creates an entire art installation to gain Top Friend status

  December 6, 2007

• Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

  Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  October 18, 2007

• Suspicious Minds

  commercial tie-ins

  August 9, 2007

• Racism Goes Unchecked at Regent University, Meanwhile the Melanin-Challenged Turn Out to Protest... Something.

  April 23, 2009

• "Booty"-licious

  KC says shake it

  August 10, 2006

• Rev It Up

  Roaring engines, screaming guitars and...Net safety?

  July 13, 2006

• Move Over, MySpace: Not So Fast

  Local musicians aren't ready to write off MySpace just yet

  July 12, 2007

• Move Over, MySpace

  With friends like these...

  July 12, 2007

• YACHT

  YACHT performs Monday, May 21, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  May 17, 2007

• Dan Hunter and the MySpace Race

  Can clicks become sales?

  May 17, 2007

• The Choking Game

  Levi Draher came back from the dead. Other players were not so lucky.

  April 19, 2007

• Boys Like Girls

  February 15, 2007

• Money for Nothing

  Hopeful beggars shake their virtual cups online

  April 20, 2006

• Lord of the Cover Bands

  Lonnie Posey rules the retread roost

  March 23, 2006

• MuteMath

  Saturday, January 21, at the Proletariat, 903 Richmond, 713-523-1199.

  January 19, 2006

• Bee Keepers

  A spelling bee brings out the stalkers

  January 19, 2006

• Angular Acid-Glam Gorecore?

  Too much music, too many genres

  June 9, 2005

• Electric Avenue

  Is MySpace.com the future of the music business, or just another Web site?

  December 16, 2004

• Memories

  The Chronicle locks away the Post archives

  December 12, 2002

• Best Tea Time

  "255-0+Tea"

  September 26, 2002

• Around the Parks in 38 Days

  The Summer That Saved Baseball

  March 8, 2001

• Hot Plate

  Dreyer's new "Dreamery" lineup

  December 30, 1999

• Get The Goods On All The Bads

  We Snitch on HOUSNITCH! What's really behind City Hall's whistle-blower Web page?

  August 19, 1999

• Craig Newmark speaks at victim's memorial in wake of Craigslist killings.

  May 7, 2009

• Perverts, Beware

  May 28, 2009

• Social Distortion: The Little Election That Could

  Note:  Feel free to sing along with John Denver at any time.  This is wholesome social media activism the whole family can enjoy! There was a land of Persians with loads and loads of hope,All gearing up to elect a new President that was not a dope,And as the polling stations began to chug along,The little election they'd wished for was going very wrong.Who, who (who, who)? Mahmoud, fuck you!  You rigged the vote today.Oh, Iran talked back, oh clickity clack, this shit is not okay!

  June 19, 2009

• Social Distortion: The End-All, Be-All Cure For Your Social Media Sickness

  You log into Facebook, and you're hit with the sudden pang of 172 unread messages in your inbox, 146 unread updates, 59 event invitations, and a partridge in a pear tree. Your Google Reader is uncomfortably lodged at 1000 unread, and it hasn't been touched in ages, sorta like your sexy bits. You blindly scroll down the Twitter updates to which you subscribe, your bleeding eyes not focusing on anything in particular and nothing at all. Your blog, still blatantly hosted for free on WordPress

  July 3, 2009

• While You Weren't Tweeting: Post-Holiday Hangover Edition

  No, this is definitely not spaghetti Sheesh. Check out the yawn on you! You'd think someone had cut your head in half. Sure, it doesn't beg notice that it's Monday morning. THE Monday morning following an incredibly steamy, incredibly dehydrating 4th of July weekend. You've already debated quitting your job so you don't have to show up this morning. Or at least you rationalized telling your boss you've contracted bird flu. Or that one of your lungs fell out. But enough already. Just quit

  July 6, 2009

• Where is the Avant-Garde Cinema Today?

  August 13, 2009

• The Buc-ee's Backlash Begins (Finally)

  ​The Heavens parted and we heard Angels singing...And on the eighth day, God created Buc-ees. And He saw that it was good.-- Testimonial on the blog at Buc-ee's official Web site. For what is, in the end, merely a chain of roadside truck stops that don't even allow trucks to stop, Buc-ee's and its maniacally grinning little beaver mascot sure garner a lot of fanatical devotion. Let's take a look at more of the testimonials on the Web site of the fast-growing Lake Jackson-based company with th

  October 2, 2009