We will move forward in the next cycle with the current format,” said Swofford, who serves as BCS chairman. “I believe the BCS has never been healthier in its first decade.” – ESPN

Bullshit. He must not be following the same college football that I am.

Craigslist and other online auction and sales sites take note of the increasing trend of Americans selling off their belongings to pay the bills.

For the first time since being a broke college kid, I had to not completely fill up my car because it was so expensive.

The redheaded stranger turns 75 today. If you live in Texas (or even if you don’t) I’d highly recommend the latest issue of Texas Monthly, featuring an oral history of our most iconic troubadour, told through interviews with the likes of Merle Haggard, Kinky Freidman and Jimmy Carter to name a few.

To write those lyrics, which are poetry with great music, it requires real tragedy. You can’t sit in a room and do it. Even if you worked 24 hours a day with a committee of men, you couldn’t do it. As a country singer, he’s never happy. That’s not the goal of being a country singer. If you’re not miserable, you’re not going to be very good. – Kinky Freidman on Willie Nelson

Khoi Vinh, Design Director at the NY times does a bit of question and answer.  

A radiolab segment on the future of Bioengineering.

Eeyore’s is many things– mostly an excuse for attendees to smoke a lot of weed (seriously, the farther back in the park you get, the better the contact high), wear costumes and dance in drum circles. Essentially it boils down to a uniquely Austin festival of spring. Pretty spiffy.

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When Jon Stewart is fucking sick of this election, you know it’s gone on too long.