Jeff Beckham

I picked up the premiere issue of Men’s Health Living magazine yesterday. It’s the interior design/home spinoff of the successful men’s magazine.
My first impressions were all positive. It looks great and has useful tips on design, cooking, and home improvement, along with a look inside the Hollywood Hills home of The Transporter’s Jason Statham. All [...]

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Rafat Ali of paidContent is reporting that Austin social media company Pluck is up for sale for a target price of around $75 million.
Pluck has powered social media and blog syndication technology for top newspaper firms, including the Austin American-Statesman, and was a major driver behind last year’s redesign of the USA Today site.
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Robosaurus, the 40-foot, 31-ton car-crunching robotic dinosaur, is hitting the auction block as part of the 37th annual Barrett-Jackson auction in Scottsdale, Arizona, beginning Jan. 12.
Robosaurus brought his fire-breathing charms to Austin this summer for the Alamo Drafthouse’s premiere of Transformers. Their site has some video from that tremendous event. I still have Robo’s photo [...]

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“Just think high - H I - to the sky, you and I, right now.”
Matthew McConaughey joins Jay-Z, Jon Stewart, Barack Obama and others in this video from the Consumer Electronics show imagining what Bill Gates’ last day at Microsoft might be like.

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This is one of the more charming pictures I’ve seen recently: Kanye West celebrating a rare Connect Four victory over Beyonce.
Actually, Kanye’s blog is entertaining overall, probably the best celebrity blog next to The Office’s Mindy Kaling.

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Via Michael Corcoran in the Statesman’s Austin Music Source blog comes the very exciting news that The Reivers, my favorite Austin band of all time, is reuniting on Feb. 9 at The Parish.
Back in the mid-1980s, they were known as Zeitgeist, but had to change their name after a New Age band laid claim to [...]

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I’m beginning 2008 by catching up on a few things from 2007, and I’m glad for it. Today, I began implementing some of Steve Rubel’s suggestions to Turn Gmail Into Your Personal Nerve Center. The IMified program added to Google’s chat feature turns out to be impressively powerful. It’s funny to think that Steve wrote [...]

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