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Did installing Istaverse on your iPhone pull forth your inner nerd? We thought so. Get your next techno fix by subscribing to our RSS feed. more ›

NASA will be airing the crew return ceremony live through this link at 4 PM CST. How did Houstonist find out about it? Through Astronaut Mike Massimino's most recent tweet. more ›

Rice University's own Mike Massimino, a Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science professor, is preparing to take his second spaceflight to the Hubble Space Telescope on May 12, and he's got a lot to say about it. Known on Twitter as Astro_Mike, he began chronicling his preparations earlier this month. The details surrounding the training for a spaceflight are quite a compelling subject, as so far Astro_Mike has over 50,000 followers and counting. That's about 5 times as many followers as the Mars Rovers, and they're on another planet. more ›

Houston's very own St. Arnold's brewery will commence with it's first ever TwitterCrawl at Hans' Bier Haus beginning at 6 p.m. more ›

Which is easier: doing something or doing nothing? Duh. What about doing something so that you can do nothing? Use RSS and Twitter to have Houstonist content pushed to you, which is the web equivalent of doing nothing. The Houstonist posts that you can't live without will be delivered to your e-doorstep without you lifting a finger...after you set it up. Read this if you need some pointers or use the links below if you already know what you're doing. more ›

"Holy fucking shit I wasbjust in a plane crash!" Mike Wilson, a Denver resident and passenger on Continental flight 1404, tweeted (posted updates to his Twitter account) about his experience when the Houston-bound flight crashed this weekend. According to his tweets, this was plane crash number two for Wilson. And, bus travel is becoming a more attractive option. more ›

It has come to our attention that a few of you are reading Houstonist by hitting refresh on your browser every so often to check for new content. People, that is so 1999. Allow us to coach you into the 2000s with a quick lesson on RSS. more ›

If you're anything like Houstonist, you're attached to Twitter like a three-year-old in one of those creepy, monkey-shaped baby harnesses. It's your safety blanket and your connection with something important (us: our friends; babies: their moms), yet also prevents you from doing important things (us: work, real-world forms of socializing; babies: putting small objects into their mouths, knocking over store displays). Yes, it's an annoying leash, but we still can't live without it. more ›

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Local tech news in a compact, digital format. Chronicle Tech Round Up The tech guys over at the Chron are pumping out the technology news and we are going tell you about it. ---Dwight Silverman Dwight Silverman reviews and discusses the newest version of the popular image editing software, Photoshop. The new version is called Photoshop CS3. Dwight also informs us that Houston is the 5th most e-mail-addicted city in the U.S. A fact... more ›