Subject: Software

• First Tuesdays at the Houston Center for Photography

  January 1, 2009

• Where Will They Be?

  A look at the rock scene in 2020

  December 30, 1999

• Somehow the Teachers Always Get Blamed

  April 5, 2007

• Kinda Gay

  March 14, 2007

• TurboTaxed

  December 28, 2006

• So It's Govt' Money -- Don't Have a COW

  October 24, 2006

• Yahoo Lyrics Link

  April 24, 2007

• Change We Can't Believe In

  September 8, 2008

• Backing Off

  HISD cuts $2 million from CEP's lucrative deal and adds more controls.

  November 8, 2001

• Photoshop Phun At The Baylor College Of Medicine

  The wonders of Photoshop are bountiful -- they let Sooner football fans taunt UT; they allow people to make bold, trenchant analysis of the current socio-political world by showing George Bush in his "Mission Accomplished" flightsuit in unlikely settings; they probably have something to do with lolcats, for all we know.In addition to all those wonders, it turns out, Photoshop can be used to fake a report "that investigated the role of the germ cell nuclear factor on the expression of pluripotenc

  December 3, 2008

• Music of (Angry) India

  April 27, 1995

• Picture Perfect

  July 20, 1995

• Vindicated

  July 27, 1995

• Back to the Future

  August 17, 1995

• The Passionate Pilgrim

  June 6, 1996

• Besieged by the Bay

  June 26, 1997

• Computer Terror

  July 31, 1997

• The Farb File

  November 5, 1998

• Contributing Factors

  March 11, 1999

• Texas Gets Into The Gaming Industry

  Photo by RebeccaPollardNews flash -- Texas is getting into the gaming industry!!!Unfortunately for poker junkies, we're not using "gaming" in the euphemistic sense that gambling boosters use it. Instead it's in the video-gaming sense, of young people wasting and warping their lives by holing up in darkened rooms playing fantasy games while school, social skills and ability to think suffers.So, good job, Texas!Governor Rick Perry announced today that the state will be pumping $250,000 into a comp

  March 17, 2009

• State of the Art

  May 6, 1999

• Web Site Winner

  June 10, 1999

• The Search For A Lonely Houston Web Phenom

  This is the story of an overweight, lonely, possibly lesbian, cheating, married, Christian and, at the moment, anonymous Houston woman. She was one of 650,000 AOL users whose Internet queries were publicly posted by the company for three days in 2006. By the time AOL removed the data, it was too late - it had been replicated elsewhere online. The oddly revealing, oddly narrative search queries of User No. 711391 captured the collective imagination of the Internet. She's now something of a cult f

  March 27, 2009

• HISD's $2 Million Man

  A shadowy California consultant rakes in school district cash

  May 17, 2001

• The Science of Pop

  Do we really need a formula for perfect music?

  May 29, 2008

• Diggin' on Digital

  April 13, 2006

• Krazy Kuzins

  Two dads + some software = one kids' CD

  November 9, 2006

• Bragging Rights

  The Port praises itself, with omissions

  August 17, 2006

• Letters to the Editor

  February 16, 2006

• Wize Guys

  Here's your chance to get rich quick -- or lose your shirt, in which case, GlobalTec disavows all responsibility for, well, anything

  February 2, 2006

• Cyber Sunday

  It's not just for geeks anymore. Fantasy football's gone mainstream.

  December 22, 2005

• Million-Hour Madness

  Religious charities discover state welfare reform savings are based in part on their backs

  April 28, 2005

• The Blog Age

  October 28, 2004

• Oral Argument

  The duel of the tongue vibrators

  April 8, 2004

• History for Dummies

  Neil Bush touts a school curriculum for guys like himself

  February 26, 2004

• High-Tech Shia Pet

  A Houston computer whiz uses the Internet to become a Muslim marriage matchmaker

  February 20, 2003

• Racket

  Clear Channel keeps the air free of insensitive songs

  September 27, 2001

• Devil in the Details

  Local government contractor Fred Martinez credits God for his success. His critics cite more earthly forces.

  March 1, 2001

• Best Video Game

  KNOWMAD, at the Art Car Museum

  September 21, 2000

• Laptop Liberaces

  Trax in Space adds another dimension to the music galaxy

  August 24, 2000

• All's Dell

  So long to slackers and laid-back lifestyles. Now that cash-rich techies have taken over, can Austin survive the great digital divide?

  May 18, 2000

• Soul Machine

  The Apple II computer: Some still consider it the wizard of Woz

  April 27, 2000

• Mix Master

  Who do we have to thank for Rod Stewart every hour on the hour? This guy, Guy Zapoleon.

  November 18, 1999

• Living Doll

  The days (and nights) of Debra Rueb's Tammy

  August 5, 1999

• Bad Cash Investments

  April 1, 1999

• Social Distortion: While You Weren't Tweeting

  Oh, by the way, the new iPhone came out. In case you hadn't heard.Yup. It's Monday morning. The weekend's indisputably over. You sucked down the last of Saturday night's spliff before bed, and you've pulverized the remaining vomit from your knees with a skin-scalding jet stream. You've blearily navigated the clogged arteries of familiar freeways to your place of employment. You've stumbled into the company kitchenette to pour yourself a cuppa joe into an abandoned Las Vegas souvenir mug. A

  June 22, 2009

• Welcome To Glitchville. Population: Us

  There have been some troubles with the blogging software throughout the massive Village Voice Media empire, so we haven't been able to post.We're confident the problem has been solved, and we'll be able to get back to doing whatever the hell it is we do.Thanks for the patience, even if you didn't realize you were demonstrating any.

  July 6, 2009

• Social Distortion: Surf's Up, Go Catch the (Google) Wave

  ​Remember how you once clamored to be one of the first to have a Gmail account, way, way back in the mid-2000s?  Well, dust off your longboard, gremmy, 'cause the Google surf's up once again, dude.  Ever the splash-maker, Google announced this past week that on September 30th, they'll invite about 100,000 to their gnarly crew of version testers to experience their latest rad webvention.  Dubbed the Google Wave, it's easiest described as a real-time communication platform a

  July 27, 2009

• ISO A Femme Fatale? Jail Babes Has The Hook-Up

  ​Can't find a match on Match.com? Can't get it in tune on eHarmony? Desperate for a young hottie, but not exactly a catch yourself and unable to fly to Russia for a mail order bride? We've got a dating sight for you: Jailbabes.Jailbabes is just like any other dating site, except all of the women on there are incarcerated. And there might be a few more disclaimers than usual, such as this one: "These ads are written by unique individuals expressing their desires. They may or may not be compl

  October 7, 2009

• Gettin' Snatch? Slayin' Puss? Yeah, Pepsi Has an App for That

  ​One day, someone ridiculously wise (or someone that was obviously getting ripped a new asshole by the media) once said, "No press is bad press." Unfortunately, that old adage probably isn't applicable to Pepsi, and won't be in this lifetime.We suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that Pepsi developed an iPhone app to market its new AMP energy drink. Big corporate conglomerates always whip out their appendages in order to piss all over the fun technology left and right, don't they? Granted,

  October 16, 2009