Subject: Microsoft Corporation

• Where Will They Be?

  A look at the rock scene in 2020

  December 30, 1999

• Idol Chatter

  January 18, 2007

• Turning The Screw: Crew54, DJ AM & Travis Barker, G- Unit, Pharrell, Eminem, Nate Dogg, Kanye, Wu-Tang vs. UFC and More

  September 22, 2008

• Snore War

  Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

  November 29, 2001

• Book Review: Doomed Queens

  October 23, 2008

• Press Picks

  November 10, 1994

• Facebook Hamstrings Whopper Sacrifice Application

  It was easy to guess that Burger King's somewhat mean-spirited Whopper Sacrifice Facebook application was going to draw some kind of fire; less easy to guess was that the fire would be drawn from Facebook itself, because the application, to put it bluntly, worked too well. In the world of Whopper Sacrifice, ten friends de-friended equaled one Whopper. Part of the ingenuity of the Whopper Sacrifice application was that when one de-friended people from one's Facebook, the application sent them a

  January 15, 2009

• My Prayer (Is To Be On An E-Mail List)

  Hair Balls is now being prayed for by a network of faithful across America. And it's free. (We think.) A Houston-based company called My Prayer Initiative offers the service (we'll get back to that), which, according to them, is the first of its kind.The press release My Prayer Initiative sent over says, "As this country prepares for one of the most memorable and historic events, Martin Luther King Holiday Celebration and the 44th Presidential Inauguration, the MyPrayer Initiative invites Amer

  January 19, 2009

• Things To Look For At The Obama Inaugural

  You know where you could be right this moment, which is about 7:30 in the morning Houston time?You could be waiting in FREEZING Washington, DC, getting on line to go through security checks so you could wait for hours and hours to watch Barack Obama's inauguration from a half-mile away.On the one hand, you will be able to say you were there. And just like any baby boomer who went to Woodstock forgets about (or romanticizes) the hassles, you will be able to say "I was there." And that's a very, v

  January 20, 2009

• The Insider

  August 17, 1995

• Digitalia: Microsoft Songsmith Corrects Artists' Glaring Oversights

  Billy Idol, "White Wedding"... sort ofMicrosoft Songsmith, a music-making computer program, has already racked up plenty of Internet accolades based on its eerily terrible commercial, wherein normal, everyday people dealing with normal, everyday problems - such as being tasked to write an ad campaign for glow-in-the-dark towels - suddenly burst into song backed by soulless, canned electronic instrumentation that lies somewhere between the soundtrack to a late-'80s children's cartoon and Thom Y

  January 27, 2009

• The Insider

  April 24, 1997

• Computer Terror

  July 31, 1997

• When Publicists Attack: Solarcaded

  Dana Boyce I had already drawn a bullseye on the side of my forehead and was just getting the gun out of the drawer. I'm normally not suicidal or, for that matter, the type to brood and get depressed. But as has been mentioned in these pages before, every so often a publicist just makes me want to blow my brains out. This week's culprit was a little lady from LaLaLand. I'd already sent her boss an email about Solarcade last week, politely telling her I thought she was mistargeting her ef

  March 11, 2009

• Changing the Music Industry Bit by Bit

  December 24, 1998

• News of the Weird

  May 20, 1999

• Sayonara, Sidewalk

  July 22, 1999

• Cyberchondriacs

  April 16, 2009

• Metallica's Death Magnetic

  Fade to Plastic via Guitar Hero III

  November 13, 2008

• Diminished Expo-tations at E3

  E3 revelations are hit and miss — unless you really dig chopping wood

  July 24, 2008

• Strapped-a-Lot

  Local mogul J. Prince wants Houston to cover up

  March 6, 2008

• Text Adventure: Lost Odyssey

  Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar game

  February 28, 2008

• Mass Effect

  Mass Effect is riveting — and a bit aggravating, too

  December 6, 2007

• Fucking Transmissions, Begin Transmission

  CD Review

  November 8, 2007

• Halo 3

  Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  October 11, 2007

• Geekology 101

  Judd Apatow explains himself.

  June 7, 2007

• Halo 3

  June 7, 2007

• DISConnect

  Sales of CDs are falling faster than you can say iPod

  January 4, 2007

• Loony Zunes

  Universal Music helps Microsoft set a crappy precedent

  December 7, 2006

• Midnight in the Garden of PS3

  Camping out at Best Buy with gamers -- and entrepreneurs

  November 23, 2006

• Next Big Things

  The five biggest attention-getters at E3

  May 25, 2006

• Back to the Future

  The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op

  March 2, 2006

• Ryan Adams

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  December 29, 2005

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

  December 15, 2005

• Near Perfect

  Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target

  December 8, 2005

• They've Got Game

  Barbarians, brain-eaters and beagles round out the best of 2005

  December 15, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 9, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 16, 2004

• Doing Time

  With JC in the TDCJ

  September 18, 2003

• Wha's Up, Beesh?

  Baby Beesh will pour some "Suga Suga" on you at the Lowrider magazine Legends Tour

  July 17, 2003

• Do the Math

  The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

  August 8, 2002

• Getting Lonely at the Top

  A recycled city official comes home to roost

  July 4, 2002

• You Don't Know Mac

  Get your recliner and No. 2 pencil

  May 2, 2002

• When In Doubt...

  Classic gifts

  November 29, 2001

• $tocks and Bonding

  Boiler Room steams with the stark greed of go-for-brokers

  February 17, 2000

• The Insider

  December 26, 1996

• Social Distortion: Killing Tom Softly With MySpace's Song

  Oh, 2006. Long lost 2006. The Golden Age of MySpace. Remember MySpace? That social networking site you logged into obsessively before the advent of Facebook and after Friendster's demise? Where Microsoft Paint made a fourth-quarter comeback in the image editing (and annotating) arena? Where bloody-souled emo ingrates and their bathroom mirror reflection shots laid the foundation for the hipster indifference movement? Where choosing a perfect page background was the biggest decision you ma

  June 29, 2009

• Artful Thursday: The Art Guys present Home on the Range

  August 13, 2009

• The Art Guys Are Home on the Range With New DVD

  ​Hot on the heels of their recent marriage to a tree, The Art Guys (Jack Massing and Michael Galbreth) unveiled their new DVD last Thursday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The two-DVD set, titled Home on the Range, features video works spanning 1984 - 2008, and the evening-length performance Nothing To It, taped on May 3, 2008 at the University of Houston's Wortham Theatre. True to Samuel Beckett's maxim "Try again, fail better," the videos run the gamut of sublime successes and spect

  August 18, 2009

• Pop Rocks: Finally Understanding, For Better Or Worse, Criminal Minds

  ​I think I finally get Criminal Minds.At first I assumed the people who watched it with any regularity were just sick freaks. Because while at first glance it isn't a lot different from the other seven hundred crime procedurals on TV any given week, what sets the show apart from the likes of Cold Case or NCIS isn't the multicultural cast or ridiculously high-tech facilities that would be more at home on Microsoft's campus than a federal government installation, but the exceedingly morbid natur

  October 27, 2009