"24 Things No One Tells You About Leaving Texas."

"Once you leave heaven, earth just isn’t all that."

Oh, you think you could do 24 things about a state you left and now miss? Try!

You Won't Believe These Mockups of How Websites Today Would Have Reported the Monica Lewinsky Scandal.

There are some laugh-out-loud items here, e.g.:



But the real punchline is that the last one is not a what-if.



It's what was, back on January 17, 1998.

And that's why we have the websites we have, and Tina Brown must cry.

"Austin’s Utopian Homeless Village Is Becoming A Reality."

"Austin’s 27-acre Community First Village will eventually house 250 formerly homeless and disabled people. Can they build a real 'hobo’s paradise'?"

At the link: 1. Plenty of photos, and 2. A refreshing resistance to using the phrase "Keep Austin Weird," which other writers writing anything about Austin are incapable of resisting. Kudos to Buzzfeed writer Summer Anne Burton.

As long as we're celebrating Summer Anne:

1. "Watch this delightful video and keep track of how many songs you can immediately identify."



2. "15 Photographs That Definitively Prove Puppies Have Always Been Adorable."

3. "What’s Your Sex Number?/The ultimate 'purity test' for the modern age." This is a checklist, the last item of which was "Gotten turned on while taking a purity test?" I'll just add my own questions: Did you check all the way to the end AND click to get your number OR did you stop at some point? If the former, what was your number? If the latter, did you stop at a particular questions (and if so, which question) or did you stop because you got nervous about whether somebody was collecting and preserving this information about you (and if so, who did you picture getting what information and what did you think they'd do with it)? And that's the difference between me and Summer Anne. She's much more fun. You should call me Winter Ann.