Results tagged “worldheadquarters”

Finally, Google Street View has come to Houston. Now we can see all those far-flung parts of town we've always wanted to check out — without having to leave Houstonist World Headquarters! Kind of, anyway: Most of the street view streets are on the southwest side, and almost all of 'em are inside the Beltway. No virtual tours of Alief for us, we guess. If you haven't used Google Street View, here's an introductory...

Today, shelterporn takes you to an incredibly cool, incredibly modern house in the First Ward, within spittin' distance of downtown. Outside, the house is wrapped in a stone and glass skin that makes it look a little bit like an office building — but the expanses of glass provide some stunning downtown views, so who really cares if people occasionally think you live inside some kind of corporate headquarters? We're sure this house comes...

Mayor Bill White took another step toward a municipal WiFi network yesterday, asking building owners to lease space on their roofs for network base stations. Most of the transmitters for the citywide network would be placed on city utility poles, but White said spots would also be needed for the base stations — between 100 and 150 of them, mainly on top of buildings. "I will be bargaining hard to make sure there's a fair and transparent and competitive deal for the access to the rooftops that we need in the city of Houston," the mayor told business leaders at the Greater Houston Partnership's annual technology conference. He said he thought giving building owners $1,000 a month in exchange for the space would be a reasonable offer — which makes us wonder if the rooftop here at Houstonist World Headquarters is a suitable spot? Mayor White, if you're reading this, we're not doing anything with our roof, and we could sure use an extra G a month. Just saying.

Houstonist is always excited to hear about ways to earn a few extra bucks, so we're amazed we neglected to tell you about a new one we heard about earlier this week: find a weather balloon box and earn $30. How easy is that? (Well, probably much easier if you happen to be standing near a weather box when it falls to the ground, we guess.)

From Houstonist's "Maybe It's Time to Find a New Place to Live" file: A Houston woman became suspicious when she would come home to find lights on that she knew she'd turned off when she left her apartment. So she set up a cleverly disguised camera, and what she found was rather disgusting.