With a magazine about tech, music, and culture that’s run in part by a man who makes his living programming the computer boxes, one would think we’d have been at South By Southwest. You’d be wrong however. SXSW is in Texas, which is somewhere we really, really don’t like to go. Instead, I’ve made a collection of the best things Twitterized from #SXSW.

For those of us in the northern hemisphere tonight, with the rooster’s crow comes the first day of spring and my personal favorite time of year. For me, nothing says spring like a dogwood tree. When I was growing up there was a dogwood tree outside my bedroom window and nowhere can be found an Easter picture of my family without a dogwood somewhere in the background. With the first day of spring on the horizon I have selected some handmade items, some photography, and a recipe for candied violets, all of which were inspired by the coming season.

Banksy was reportedly hanging around Park City – his presence can’t be confirmed, because no one ever actually sees him – for the premiere of the film “Exit Through the Giftshop,” which U.K. newspaper The Guardian describes as a “documentary about Banksy’s relationship with an impressionable French filmmaker/stalker.”

Tango Echo’s Justin Klugh interviews LEGO Hobbyists, filmmaker Jess Gibson, and master LEGO builder Jordan Schwartz.

Click the link below to find out how the LEGO hobby is surviving the digital era.

Seventy-seven years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of over thirty radio addresses, to which he spoke to the American people about the state of our nation and its current direction. With the country in the midst of the deepest part of the Great Depression, the “fireside chats,” as they were called, where intended to keep the American people abreast on Roosevelt’s decisions, while bringing comfort to the nation’s fears and anxieties. With this, Roosevelt established an intimacy between himself and the American people—one which begat trust among politician and citizen, and has yet since been duplicated.