Software Engineering

The Highly Unofficial Unfair Park Mayoral Poll

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

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 >>

Caught in the Web

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

Space Aliens are Breeding with Earth Women

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

Bugged By the Millennium

A computer glitch has some Dallasites predicting an apocalyptic meltdown. They may not be that crazy.

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?

Stormy weather

Hot new computer game maker ION Storm appears to have all it needs for success -- top talent, plenty of money, and legions of anxious fans. So why is its future so cloudy?

Fergie

The Dutchess (A&M)

Tree Wave

Cabana EP+ (Made Up Records)

Hard Words for Software

DCAD spends $5.5 million developing its own computer program. Why?

Men From g.o.d.

Why are these Dallas high-tech hotshots chucking the action, gore and riches of the computer gaming world to hawk a genteel digital magazine?

Charlie Robison

Step Right Up (Lucky Dog/Sony Nashville)

Code of Conduct

Dave Thomas' book offers workplace philosophy for more than just computer freaks and geeks

Critic's circle

WFAA movie reviewer Gary Cogill is guru and matchmaker for a caffeinated crowd of film buffs

Jonathan Coulton

Wednesday, May 13, at the Granada Theater

How a Girl on Top Chose, Kinda, to Move Back to Deep Ellum After Two Years Living in Austin

​Lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson or Deep Ellum? That's the question I asked all kinds of folks before moving back to Dallas this month to re-join the Observer. Two and a half years gone while in grad school in Austin, and all kinds of things change in this town. Somebody set off a Banana Republi ... More >>

Lone Star Brushstrokes

​Lower Greenville, Knox-Henderson or Deep Ellum? That's the question I asked all kinds of folks before moving back to Dallas this month to re-join the Observer. Two and a half years gone while in grad school in Austin, and all kinds of things change in this town. Somebody set off a Banana Republi ... More >>