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Houston Press: Anjelah Johnson's Houston Special Airs Tonight on Comedy Central

Sometimes you get a crowd that's like, 'Ah, entertain me, impress me.' Then you get crowds where people come out to laugh and just have a good time. That's pretty much what Houston's about. So when they asked me where do you want to film your special, I was like, 'Houston. I'm definitely going there.' No question.

via blogs.houstonpress.com

Jeff Balke, one of Houston's treasures, recaps his year in photographs

via blog.jeffbalke.com

Searching for photos from the dog shows, I was thrilled to discover that Jeff is not only a web developer and professional musician, but a generous photographer. He really lets the heart of his subjects shine through.

Spending a week in country with in-laws, but used my gift card for a wi-fi router and will be around online #li

Emily Pilloton on the real power in design

Ingenuity is sort of the overlooked younger sister of innovation, and is perhaps a more efficient approach to design.

via www.artinfo.com

Pandora.com for Christmas songs you wish you'd heard before.

Just got back from the final round of Christmas shopping. Feels like 5 pm, and looks like it in Houston...

An anonymous donor, Charlie Robb of Charchin Creative and the Outdoor Advtsg Assoc team to reassure us

via www.oaaa.org

I'm still battling to establish some good habits... like doing at least one little improvements to each of the sites I'm responsible for, every day.

Find something unusual to read (via ExtraTexture.com)

While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years, many a publishing insider is quietly mourning a volume that unnaccountably never made the 'best of' or bestseller lists, but should have. Here publishers, agents and translators speak up for the ones that really shouldn't have got away

via www.guardian.co.uk

Bruce is right, and I don't say that often...Technology Vs. Design--What is the Source of Innovation? - BusinessWeek

Invention has to have socio-economic value to become innovation.

via www.businessweek.com