Report: Austin drivers worse than Houston - Houston Business Journal:

A national report from Allstate Insurance Co. (NYSE: ALL) reports that Austin drivers take that title, considering they are 35 percent more likely to be in an accident than the average American driver.

Customize.org - Download Themes, Skins, Wallpapers and Icons for Windows from the original skin site!

Customize.org is the original skins and themes site, since 1998.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Essex | Woman stranded in cat rescue bid

A woman who climbed 20ft up a tree to help a trapped cat had to be rescued by firefighters after getting stranded.

Category Subdomains Plugin for Wordpress 2.5 | demp.se/y - Adam Dempseys Blog

This is a plugin that turns WP categories into subdomains.

File change notifications for your WordPress blog on Linux | Peter’s Useful Crap

Every hour, or more or less frequently depending on your needs, you can run a script (via cron or WP-Crontrol) to e-mail yourself a list of all of the files that have been changed since the last check.

AMC - Blogs - The Prisoner - Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen to Star in AMC Reinterpretation of Cult Classic The Prisoner

AMC announced today that acclaimed film actors Jim Caviezel (The Passion of the Christ) and Ian McKellen (Lord of the Rings) have signed on for the network's reinterpretation of the highly influential 1960s cult classic,

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Treasury chief on ‘wombat leave’

Australia's top treasury official is taking five weeks leave to look after endangered wombats.

NBC airing first episode of SNL as a Carlin tribute - VIDEO - TV Squad

As a tribute to the recently-deceased comedy legend, NBC will air the entire premiere episode of SNL this Saturday night.

What’s on Barack Obama’s iPod? - CNN.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.

Penguin Design Award - 2008 Design Award Winners and Shortlist

This is a collection of student-designed covers for On The Road by Jack Kerouc and On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Really fascinating stuff - I love looking at book cover designs.

Will a Computer “Symbiote” be Implanted in Future Human Brains?

Will future humans have computers implanted in their brains? Researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently—just like the human brain does.

AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - What Are the New SciFi Classics?

Last week the American Film Institute does what it does whenever it needs a little attention drawn to itself — it released a bunch of lists about films, this time listing off the top 10 films in 10 different genres.

Helfer, Fox Inseperable - SciFi Wire

Tricia Helfer, one of the stars of SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica, has been tapped to co-star on Fox's SF drama pilot Inseparable, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Fox Orders Gender-Switch Pilot - SciFi Wire

Fox has ordered a pilot from writer Kevin Falls (NBC's Journeyman) based on Argentina's telenovela hit Lalola, about a womanizer who is transformed into a woman, Variety reported.

Rumors Barack Obama’s campaign shouldn’t try to correct. - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

Rather than restate untruths about Obama, the campaign would do better to start some rumors of its own. Here's a template e-mail the Obama campaign might consider disseminating.

The Straight Dope: How much money is there? With the U.S. borrowing so much, why aren’t we broke?

How much U.S. currency (cold cash) is in circulation around the world? Who decides how much to print? With the government continually borrowing money, shouldn't lenders be broke by now?

Neil Patrick Harris plays the title character and Nathan Fillion plays the “hero”… but he doesn’t look like such a friendly hero. Check it out:

Teaser from Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.