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Conferences
Apps Apps, software tools, and Consummate Winsock Applications (after Stroud). · 0
Art Visual art, painting, sculpture, design. · 0
ATXbbs Discussion of the ATXbbs BBS software powering this site. · 1
Austen Jane Austen — her novels, adaptations, fandom. · 0
Austen Archive Archived Austen discussions. · 0
Austen Test Jane Austen testing/dev conference. · 0
Austin Life in Austin, Texas. · 0
Austin Mayor Austin mayoral politics, local elections. · 0
Babes Babes! Male and female celebrity appreciation. · 0
Books What are you reading? · 0
Bronte The Bronte sisters — Charlotte, Emily, Anne. · 0
CapCity Capital City — Austin politics, news, civic life. · 0
Cars Motorheads and commuters. · 0
CFP Computers, Freedom and Privacy — civil liberties in the digital era. · 0
Collecting Collectibles, antiques, and hobbyist treasures. · 0
Community Building community, civic engagement, social capital. · 0
Computer Computers, hardware, OSes, troubleshooting. · 0
Crafts Making things with your hands. · 0
Cultures Traditions, languages, lived experience. · 0
Deeper Deeper conversations — psychology, growth, the inner life. · 0
DPO Domestic Partnership Order — relationship structures. · 0
Drool! Discuss your favorite movie stars. · 0
Drool Fic Fan fiction spawned from the Drool conference. · 0
DSM Mental health discussion — Diagnostic & Statistical Manual. · 0
Education Schools, teaching, learning, kids. · 0
Environment Ecology, climate, conservation. · 0
Firth Colin Firth, the BBC adaptations, and the Austen films that followed. · 0
Farm Land, livestock, growing food. · 0
Fitness Workouts, training, health, athletic pursuits. · 0
Food Recipes, restaurants, home cooking. · 0
Garden Flowers, vegetables, dirt under fingernails. · 0
GenX Generation X — culture, nostalgia, what comes next. · 0
girlhoop Women's basketball — WNBA, college, global, Texas HS. Official girlhoop.com community. · 4
Geo Places, travel, geography of Texas and beyond. · 0
Hammer Heavy metal, hard rock, metal scene. · 0
Health Body, mind, medicine. · 0
History Historical events, periods, figures. · 0
Home Home improvement, design, household life. · 0
Homepage Member homepages, personal sites, web design. · 0
International Conflicts Wars, geopolitics, international affairs. · 0
Internet The net itself. Protocols, culture, policy. · 0
Justice Law, courts, civil rights, social justice. · 0
Media Newspapers, magazines, broadcast, journalism. · 0
Medieval Middle Ages — history, culture, fantasy. · 0
Middlemarch George Eliot and the Victorian novel. · 0
Minds Psychology, the brain, cognition, consciousness. · 0
ModJane Modern takes on Jane Austen. · 0
Motorcycle Bikes, riding, gear, road trips. · 0
Movies Film talk. · 0
Music Records, shows, players, scenes. · 0
News What's happening in the world. · 0
NH New Hampshire — local discussion. · 0
Paraspring The paranormal, weird events, strange phenomena. · 0
Parent Parenting, kids, raising humans. · 0
Philosophy Big questions: ethics, meaning, mind, existence. · 0
Phinished Finishing your dissertation — PhD support. · 0
Photo Photography — gear, technique, sharing shots. · 0
Poetry Verses, readings, the line. · 0
Politics Local, state, national, global. · 0
The Porch Welcome to The Spring. Sit a while. · 4
Projects Member projects, side hustles, makings. · 0
Radio KUT, KGSR, KVRX, and the signal everywhere. · 0
Restaurants Where to eat. · 0
Science Science discussions across disciplines. · 0
Screwed Tales of getting screwed — venting, support, solidarity. · 0
Senior Comp Older adults using computers. · 0
Sex Sex, sexuality, relationships, intimacy. · 0
Software Software discussion, dev tools, applications. · 0
Spirit Spirituality, faith, meaning — Buddhism, Zen, Christianity, paganism, atheism. · 0
Spirituality The search. · 0
Sports Games, teams, players. · 0
SpringArk Spring's Noah's Ark — preserving member projects. · 0
Tech Business Tech startups, business models, the dot-com era. · 0
Test Test conference — system experiments. · 0
Today What happened today — current events, news of the day. · 0
Travel Going places. · 0
TV The box. · 0
Unix Shells, pipes, philosophy. · 1
Unplugged Acoustic music, unplugged sessions. · 0
Virtual Community The WELL, The Spring, the idea. · 0
Web HTML, browsers, pages. · 0
Windows Microsoft and the PC. · 0
Yapp Yapp BBS software discussion. · 0
EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation — digital rights, online freedom, 1998 origins. · 0
Hot Springs Hot Springs, Arkansas — local life, history, bath houses. · 0
Microtution Jeff Aldrich's contract-learning concept (microtution.org). · 0
Viridian Curia Bruce Sterling's Viridian design movement — sustainability, aesthetics. · 0
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