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Good morning, Houston. We're happy to report that we've found out the AIA and Google have combined two of our favorite things: architecture and Google Earth. Now there's a Google Earth layer featuring 3-D models of some of the structures on the AIA's list of America's favorite architecture, which brings desktop tourism to a whole new level. Among the buildings on the AIA layer: Pennzoil Place, the Astrodome and the Williams Tower, the three...

Spring time in Texas and Easter is Sunday. Bluebonnets are blooming on the roadsides of Texas highways and hordes of partying co-eds are migrating to South Padre Island for Spring Break. Thousands of miles away in Rimini, Italy a different group of Texans, known as No Tsu Oh, is migrating to a different beach in hopes of successfully defending their fifth world title. Paganello is a five-day frisbee related event held annually on the Rimini...

We start off this Tech Buzz with a list of The 50 Most Important People On The Web, Houstonist isn't on the list, but we know our 11 readers love us! We hope by now, you have changed your clocks for Daylight Savings Time. Jay Lee over at The Chron lovingly refers to DST as Y2K7 and reminds us to patch our systems and devices. Looks like we missed BarCampAustin at SXSWi this weekend....

After months of construction and some setbacks, the Galveston Schlitterbahn water park is about ready to open, and its owner hopes it'll be a national tourist attraction. The park is the third in the Schlitterbahn empire: the first opened in New Braunfels in 1979, the second in South Padre in 2001. The $34 million Galveston version will have something new, though — a 70,000-square-foot indoor section with a retractable roof, which will allow the park...

The readers of Texas Highways have named Galveston one of the state's top five vacation destinations — barely. The city ranked fifth on the magazine's list of local getaways, after San Antonio, the Hill Country, Big Bend and South Padre Island. Don't feel bad, little sandbar. It's hard to compete with the Riverwalk, beautiful natural scenery and silicone-filled bikinis. According to KTRK, readers said they like Galveston because it's inexpensive and has "famous landmarks like...