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Something you never see on travel shows about Austin is that or terrible traffic problems are actually caused by daily strafing runs on our freeway system. In fact, its a testament to the state of Texas that maintenance has the freeways back in drivable condition in time for the 4PM strafing runs.

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Argh...radio commercial just used the ”one weird trick” spiel. Urge to melt radio with my heat vision rising....

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I haven't talked much about 9/11 or its consequences today. There's not much I can say that hasn't been said before, not much I can tell that hasn't been told. But there IS a lot to tell that a lot of people don't know about, or want more information about.

History Commons has an amazing rundown of the events leading up to and after 9/11, culled from interviews, press articles, and and other verifiable journalistic sources. It's not a conspiracy site, although has some entries noted because they've fed the theories.

If you want to see a minute by minute in depth timeline of the events of that day, I can't recommend this site enough:

http://www.historycommons.org/project.jsp?project=911_project