Another installment of the links you lurve. I’m breaking it up into two posts (with another one later today). Enjoy.

• Apparently, Texas skiers like to go for broke on the slopes.
• See what it’s like when 20+ hobos get together on a stage at Emo’s.
• Yet another article wooing tourists to check out the Austin music scene.
• The Toronto Star interviews the filmmakers of "Metal, A Headbangers Journey," which will be showing at SXSW.
• "Slam Planet: War of the Words" (which was almost lost in the Guadalupe Arts Center fire), will also be premiering at SXSW.
• Apple has the trailer for the documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," which opens on March 31st.
• The San Francisco Chronicle does a story on local bands heading to SXSW.
• Those who can’t go to SXSW program their own private festivals.
• Give thanks to the Damage Control crew for creating the best hip hop SXSW experience ever.
• Brit acts are getting 500 grand from their government to go to SXSW. Beat that, Yankees.
• Wired covers the behind-the-scenes action during the making of Richard Linklater’s "A Scanner Darkly."
• Whole Foods’ CEO John Mackey gives a new agey speech (he’s a Libertarian–who knew?) fusing Ayn Rand with responsibility and starts a political movement called FLOW (Freedom Lights Our World).
• Laurie Gallardo’s "Before the Break" podcast covers Austin buzz band SOUND team.
• Vince Young: On sale for $99!
• Though Dixon Edge Coulbourn died last year, Ryan Richardson has resurrected his all-encompassing Idle Time and Pop Group sites [via] .
• Now entering its second printing, George Hurchalla’s punk masterpiece Going Underground has a sample chapter (PDF) available chronicling the Austin punk scene.
• UT Tunnels ends with a cryptic message.

More to come…