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10/08/2015

UPDATE: Lisa van Dam-Bates is fund-raising for her new film, Marla Mae. We wouldn't be asking if it wasn't important. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/marla-mae-the-movie-post-production-push

Your first time with her will be your last. | Crowdfunding is a democratic way to support the fundraising needs of your community. Make a contribution today!

07/29/2015

Wondering what Brandon Roberts and Lisa van Dam-Bates have been up to? https://www.facebook.com/marlamaethemovie - News about the movie is in international newspapers as of today

Your first time with her will be your last. Check out production updates on the HORROR FILM that's already appearing in Time, BBC & NY Post.

07/15/2014

Hello all! Wintfred Huskey, one of our writers, has a book being published! Pre-orders are life/death for an author, so help him out and pre-order it in the next 4 days! . http://pubslush.com/project/3163

Blowinâ It follows Billy George -- mid-twenties, underemployed, half in love -- on a questionable road trip from Philly to the Southwest. Billy gets a check in the mail, quits his placeholder job, and drives a van filled with ancient Chinese artifacts across the country, encountering alluring anarch…

11/21/2013

Selling our newspaper/magazine stands/racks/etc http://austin.craigslist.org/bfs/4206310992.html

0 favorites∨∧CLaustinall for sale / wantedbusiness/commercial - by ownerReply to:[email protected] [?] flag [?] : miscategorized prohibited spam best ofPosted: 2013-11-21, 5:21PM CST Newspaper & magazine racks/stands - $350 (Austin) I'm selling 28 tabloid sized newspaper/magazine…

11/08/2013

Meet Campaign Vulture: A new project to help journalists/citizens track the sources of political money (and power). Fund our work!

Last year I was working on an entry to a datamining contest and decided to include analysis of our mayor’s campaign contributions. I got hit with a harsh truth about the way most local/state governments publish their campaign finance records: they're kept in a format that makes them extremely diffic...

10/21/2013

An owner of a apartment complex wants me to remove a "libelous" comment someone made about his property from my website. What do you all think? Complex is Meadow Breeze, FYI.

10/02/2013

In light of Ross Ulbricht's arrest (founder of Silk Road), here's the Austin Cut's anonymously-submitted article, in case you didn't catch it the first time: http://austincut.com/2012/01/silk-road-a-vicious-blow-to-the-war-on-drugs/

Should we win the fight, a new era will be born. Even if we lose, the genie is out of the bottle and they are fighting a losing War already. —Silk Road I’m sitting here staring at an envelope that showed up in the mail. Even though it’s from a totally bizarre return address, I […]

07/29/2013

Some City of Austin web scrapers. http://austincut.com/2013/07/more-code-city-of-austin-web-scrapers/

Here are two tools to collect information from the City: APD Incident Reports Scraper https://github.com/brandonrobertz/APDIncidentReportsScraper This tool scrapes the Austin Police Department’s messy Indcident Reports Database (police reports) into a machine-readable CSV format. Reports come from t...

07/24/2013

Austin/Travis County Traffic scraping source code released on github. https://github.com/brandonrobertz/Austin-Traffic-Scraper

Brandon Roberts releases an Austin-Travis County Traffic Event Page scraper used to research the Nov 2011 article "Traffic is Hell"

06/27/2013

State of journalism 2013: "Walmart, which has carried Deen-branded products since 2011, said it will not place 'any new orders beyond what's already committed.' Which means her just-launched line of branded butter is toast."

06/20/2013

Sharing tips with the right people? Getting paid what you should be? Not sure? Marie Scott goes in depth with tip-pool lawyer Bob Debes.

Bob Debes and Marie Scott go in-depth about tipped minimum wage, tip pools, trip-outs, what's legal and what's not.