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Computer Technology

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    Southwest Airlines Takes On Site That Makes It Much Easier and Cheaper to Check In Early

    ​Love Field-based Southwest makes it easy to check in early: Pay the carrier an extra $20 for a round-trip flight, and as soon as the early-bird check-in line opens, some 36 hours before take-off, you'll get a boarding pass in the much-coveted Group A. Which isn't guaranteed, mind you, but it coul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    The Observer is Looking for an Art Director

    This is the job posting. Tell your friends. But only the good ones. The Dallas Observer has an immediate opening for an experienced editorial art director. The art director is responsible for the overall design quality and integrity of the publication. He/she must be able to conceptualize and produ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Hey, Our Best Of App Is One of the Best. No, Really. Apple Said So.

    ​As blogs go, Unfair Park is a mostly safe, well-lit space, free of the black-hearted cynicism that infects so many other blogs. (Except when Rick Perry parts his lips.) (Oh, and when Schutze shows up.) (And Patrick! Can't forget about Patrick.) (Anna and Brantley have a little darkness in the ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2011

    Juve Remixes A Name For Itself

    ​As blogs go, Unfair Park is a mostly safe, well-lit space, free of the black-hearted cynicism that infects so many other blogs. (Except when Rick Perry parts his lips.) (Oh, and when Schutze shows up.) (And Patrick! Can't forget about Patrick.) (Anna and Brantley have a little darkness in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    "Intelligent Design" Materials Sneak Onto DISD Teachers' Curriculum Site. Maybe God Did It?

    ​Turns out, Rick Perry was right after all.What you see at right is a slide I received last night from a fellow Dallas Independent School District parent. It was, until this morning, available on the district's Curriculum Central website, accessible only to teachers and administration and a resour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2011

    "Commit!" to This Sneak Preview of Dallas Regional Chamber's Plan to Rescue DISD

    Commit!'s no Dallas Achieves, swear​At its August 11 board briefing, Michael Casserly, executive director of the D.C.-based Council of the Great City Schools, told the Dallas Independent School District's board of trustees: It could be a good, long while till you find a suitable replacement for Mi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    At SMU's Living Village, Harvey Lacey Demos a House Built One Plastic Bag At A Time

    Photos by Patrick MichelsInventor Harvey Lacey in front of a mud-covered house built with his Ubuntu Blox, bales of compacted plastic bags and Styrofoam..​Today marks the middle of SMU's Engineering & Humanity Week, where, as Robert already told you, students are field-testing some the latest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    And Now, Our Best App Ever: The "Best Of" App

    Allow me to introduce you to The Company's Best Of app for the iPhone, which has just launched to great acclaim. Long story short: Need to know best place to get a strong drink? Done. Best convenience store in which to eat a meatball sub? Boom. Best record store? Click. Download from the iTunes stor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    An Early Look at "Repurposing" Plans for A. Maceo and North Dallas High Schools

    Via The Past Whispers​Back to the Dallas Independent School District trustees' to-do list for Thursday ...Like I said, lots of interesting stuff there, beginning at the top of the briefing agenda: "Discussion of 2010-2011 Repurposing Plans for Academically Unacceptable (AU4) Schools." That AU4 ref ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    News Delays Launch of iPhone, iPad Apps and "Subscriber Content." Till When? Dunno.

    ​A couple of weeks back we noticed that The Dallas Morning News would begin offering very special "subscriber content"on December 14, the same date the paper intended to launch its new iPhone and iPad apps. Publisher Jim Moroney wouldn't offer any further details about DallasNews.com's banner anno ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Last Night: Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, SLEEP ∞ OVER at The Loft

    Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, SLEEP ∞ OVERThe LoftAugust 25, 2010 Better than: ironing out the kinks of that new Windows XP installation. Derek O'DonnellMemoryhouse. Expect a full slideshow from last night's show later today.​Each of the two non-Texan touring bands who took the stage last night a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2010

    Dallas Police Officer Arrested For Possessing, Distributing Child Pornography

    ​It was just one month ago that Dallas Police Officer Jeffrey Thorn was arrested for an alleged sexual assault not far from DPD HQ in the Cedars. Today, the department sends word that yet another officer is behind bars: Isac De La Rosa, a 3-year veteran assigned to the Southwest Patrol Division, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Mayor Leppert Just Stopped Checking His E-Mail to Chime In on the Love Field Concessions

    Sam MertenMayor Leppert, five minutes into the presentation.​Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano began this afternoon's Love Field Concession Committee meeting by letting folks know why the committee was formed -- to clear up "perception issues reported by the newspaper" -- and what the groun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    DC9er Mixtape, Vol. 9: DJ Merritt

    ​Twenty-something years ago, Merritt was just your average high school kid, hanging out and throwing keggers. But, one Saturday afternoon, on his way to help set up a party, Merritt witnessed a series of life-changing events which transformed him into DJ Merritt--pretty much over night. Now, with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Settle This Argument: Who's the Most Overpaid City of Dallas Employee?

    Justin Terveen​Merten just got around to looking at Texas Tribune's list of city of Dallas employees' salaries. He called me, shocked -- SHOCKED -- at some of those numbers. He also wanted to know who the who is Harold Nogle, the fourth-highest paid city employee at $208,000 -- which puts him betw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Since Everyone Loves Lists, Where Does Dallas Rank on "Riskiest Online Cities"?

    ​According to Symantec, Dallas does rank fairly high on the list of American cities "under the greatest threat from cybercrime" -- 22 out of the top 50, which makes us the Adam Lambert to Seattle's Rihanna. There's one significant reason Dallas doesn't rank higher: We're not so connected to the Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Dallas Among Top 10 Cities When It Comes to Putting Off Filing Tax Returns

    ​So says Intuit, maker of Turbo Tax, which this morning released a list of "this year's biggest tax procrastinators." For the second year in a row, Dallas comes in at No. 9 on the wait list -- which, incidentally, is topped by Houston, so there. And Austin comes in at No. 4, after placing 11th las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Geek Squad to the Rescue

    ​Twenty-nine-year-old Matthew Ruff, a bio-medical engineer, interned last year at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal child pornography charge, which will result in at least a few years in federal prison, lifetime supervision and up to a $250,000 fine shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Play-N-Skillz Launch Label, Sign Local Artist

    The proud owners of a new major label imprint.​ Yesterday, two-time Grammy-winning Dallas hip-hop production duo Play-N-Skillz announced a deal it has signed with Universal Music Group urban imprint SRC/Universal to launch its own imprint, which will be called G4 Muzik. After the jump, the full pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    And The Winner Is...

    It was an unusually frantic week at City of Ate, thanks in part to those [expletive deleted]'s at Lazare, but more to our own tedious blogging software, which one day decided--all on its own--to block all comments.Still, we had a lot to work with. And if we were giving away prizes, these fine folks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Legal Battle Over Locally Not-Produced Duke Nukem Forever Now Names Plano's GearBox

    The only thing that'll take longer than the development of Duke Nukem Forever is the lawsuit is created after the game never showed.Long story short for those without short- or long-term memories: After Garland-based video game developer Apogee Software/3D Realms took forever developing and never de ... More >>

  • Music

    May 7, 2009

    Jonathan Coulton

    Wednesday, May 13, at the Granada Theater

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Top 10 Country Albums of 2008

    Photo by Michael Alan GoldbergTwo young blondes with toothy smiles and hard-core work ethics, Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, helped country expand its fan base in these years of shrinking music sales. Meanwhile, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    By December 10, Maybe the Council Will Have Its Head Out of Its Ash

    As you can see from the photo of Pauline Medrano here, council members spent the first 40 minutes of today's meeting of the City Smoking Ordinance Special Ad-Hoc Committee scarfing down sandwiches -- too busy to have a proper lunch, apparently, what with back-to-back meetings on the schedule. (And ... More >>

  • Music

    November 6, 2008

    YACHT

    Thursday, November 6, at Club Dada

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    In the Absence of a Trinity River Project, Fun and Fascinating Meetings

    Thursday, November 6, at Club Dada

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2008

    Credit Card Hacking, Not Just the Newest Game at Dave & Buster's

    Thursday, November 6, at Club Dada

  • Calendar

    January 31, 2008

    Doo bee doo ba ba da!

    Danny Tanner would be proud

  • News

    October 18, 2007

    Gunfight at the Trinity

    The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2007

    The Highly Unofficial Unfair Park Mayoral Poll

    The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2007

    Get on the Bus

    The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2007

    Man...That Was Quick

    The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2006

    Cubes, Cubed

    The biggest shoot-out in Dallas' political history

  • Film

    March 9, 2006

    Bull@$#*%

    The latest What the Bleep!? is as irresponsible as the first

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Whiz Biz Kids

    Dallas' young entrepreneurs live by their creed: Just do it.

  • Music

    April 22, 2004

    Misty Watercolored Memories

    The Dallas Observer Music Awards, remembered. Kind of.

  • News

    March 18, 2004

    Screwing the Man

    Electronic Robin Hoods claim music file-swapping is an act of civil disobedience

  • Best of Dallas

    September 25, 2003

    Best Computer Store

    Micro Center

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002

    Best Bookstore (Used)

    Half Price Books

  • Best of Dallas

    September 20, 2001

    Best Computer Store

    Tran Computer

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Censor.com

    Plano wades into the thicket of Internet access, porn, and the First Amendment

  • News

    November 12, 1998

    Invasion of the bodyshoppers

    A shortage of American engineers and programmers spells boom times for brokers who peddle skilled foreign workers at bargain prices. Is it exploitation, or just good business?

  • News

    April 30, 1998

    Life in the slow lane

    The Information Age meets the technological Stone Age at Dallas schools

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    Attack of the geeks

    A cadre of computer whizzes plans to expose DISD's finances to the world

  • News

    May 29, 1997

    Buzz

    A cadre of computer whizzes plans to expose DISD's finances to the world

  • News

    April 17, 1997

    "It's our turn to be heard"

    With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say

  • News

    May 23, 1996

    Virtual legality

    For an up-and-coming Dallas multimedia company with a hot lawyer game, life imitates CD-ROM

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Space Aliens are Breeding with Earth Women

    For an up-and-coming Dallas multimedia company with a hot lawyer game, life imitates CD-ROM

  • News

    December 7, 1995

    Caught in the Web

    Zach Loafman, a gifted St. Mark's teen, fights an addiction to the Internet.

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    BeloWatch

    Zach Loafman, a gifted St. Mark's teen, fights an addiction to the Internet.

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