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A Public Plea for Bayou Place to Update Its Web Site

I love Bayou Place. I really do. I love the idea of clustering great restaurants and bars in one development in such close proximity to some of the city's iconic cultural institutions: the Wortham, the Alley Theatre, Jones Hall and the new Houston Ballet. And tucked right into Bayou Place is the Bay ... More >>

California Department of Education Employee Busted for Obsessive Commenting on News Website

Commenters are a fascinating Internet species. The anonymity that comes with posting comments on a news story gives people the opportunity to express their innermost thoughts and feelings. It also affords them the chance to be complete and utter assholes. It's as if commenters are pur id, acting lik ... More >>

Internetocalypse! Facebook and Gmail Go Down in the Same Afternoon

When I read yesterday that Facebook was down, only hours after Gmail servers had gone dark, I actually laughed a bit to myself because I realized I was reading it on Twitter. I began to imagine what would happen if it also had server issues. What would the world do...go back to MySpace? Then, it da ... More >>

GoDaddy Offers Apology to Customers for "Internal Network Events"

GoDaddy is the most popular domain name registrar on the web, thanks in large part to its annoyingly incessant teaser commercials featuring pseudo risque clothing options worn well known TV and sports personalities and the promise of more if you visit the website. These ads are particularly prominen ... More >>

The Houston Chronicle's New, "Improved" Website: Day Six & It's Still Front-Page News

The Houston Chronicle has taken time out from promising its overworked staffers more barbecue (in lieu of raises) to initiate an elaborate roll-out for its redesigned homepage. There was a party at Hotel Zaza for "community leaders":

Five Reasons Why Perry's Attempt to Block Negative Social Media Content Is a Bad Idea

Controlling negative publicity is tough business in the modern world. Virtually everything is caught on tape -- good and bad -- and the Internet provides the ideal place for opposition. From anonymous commenters to bloggers to people on social networking sites, it is impossible to prevent negative c ... More >>

Lights Out Houston Begins Tonight

If you're around downtown at 10 p.m. tonight, expect to see a sudden change. Tonight begins the annual Lights Out Houston campaign, where businesses douse their nonessential lights during non-business hours, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Last year almost 90 million square feet of needlessly lit office sp ... More >>

App of the Week: SeamlessWeb

List pulled from the 77027 area code.​App: SeamlessWeb Platforms: iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, plus a mobile friendly Web site Web site: SeamlessWeb.com Cost: Free As long as there have been restaurants and lazy people, there have been food delivery services. From the milk man to the pizza de ... More >>

There's an App for That: SeamlessWeb Takes Aim at Food Delivery

A list of available restaurants in the 77027 area code.​For those with a love of food and obsession with their smart phones, these are amazing times. There are apps that give iPhone and Android users all sorts of options when it comes to food, from finding happy hours to ranking restaurants. ... More >>

Before Networking Was Social: Ten Early Social Websites That Are Dead or Dying

Who needs Classmates.com when we have Facebook?​Social networking today is a foregone conclusion. Many of us wake up and check Twitter on our smart phones or pull up Facebook on our laptops. We surf YouTube videos in our spare time, find dates on Match.com and spend hours reading music, politi ... More >>

Sam Houston State: Bomb Threat Evacuates Library

Sam Houston State has evacuated the Newton Grisham library after a note was found containing a bomb threat. "-A note was found at the Newton Gresham Library indicating a bomb was planted on the third floor of the building," the school announced on its web page. "The building has been evacuated and ... More >>

Dallas Cowboys: America's Most Popular Team, To America's Discredit

Dallas Cowboys: America has no taste​The Neilsen Company, the people who give you TV ratings, have done an extensive study on how popular various NFL teams are.According to the Wall Street Journal, the study examined "each team's local and national TV rankings, how often they're mentioned on the I ... More >>

10 Reasons Your Restaurant Website Sucks

Your restaurant website probably sucks​I have spent more than ten years consulting with companies in a wide range of industries on the design and development of their websites. It's a job that can be quite challenging because I often work with organizations who don't know very much about websi ... More >>

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 it ... More >>

Where is the Avant-Garde Cinema Today?

Aurora Picture Show explores the link between avant-garde and YouTube

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 quit ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 househ ... More >>

Perverts, Beware

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

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

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

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

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

Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

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 ... More >>

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 Lewi ... More >>

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 fro ... More >>

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 ove ... More >>

Girl In A Coma

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 lin ... More >>

Caught In The Net

Denny's Adopts Rock Bands

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

Leslie & the LY's

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

“Lawndale Has Many Friends”

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

Solidarity, Baby

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

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Move Over, MySpace: Not So Fast

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

Move Over, MySpace

With friends like these...

Dan Hunter and the MySpace Race

Can clicks become sales?

Boys Like Girls

Rev It Up

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

Lord of the Cover Bands

Lonnie Posey rules the retread roost

MuteMath

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

Bee Keepers

A spelling bee brings out the stalkers

Angular Acid-Glam Gorecore?

Too much music, too many genres

Electric Avenue

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

Best Tea Time

"255-0+Tea"

Serial Killers On-line

Victim advocates condemn sales of murder-related items

Get The Goods On All The Bads

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

The Post is Dead (Again)