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SXSW 2010
The SXSW Festival in 2010 once again flooded Austin with technological innovators, film icons, and music shakers. This convergence of creativity attracts commercial promoters, dedicated followers, and wanna-be acts alike, and the result is a spectacle experienced nowhere else in the world. See a glimpse of the festival from a street-side view.
April 2010 Photographs by Dylan Clement
What’s the Big Idea?
How to make the Lone Star State even better.
May 2009
The Searcher »
When a UFO streaks across our skies— c’mon, the truth is out there!—Ken Cherry gets to work.
April 2008 by Skip Hollandsworth
Denise Fulton »
37, video game producer, Austin
February 2008
Susanne Paul »
41, semiconductor designer, Austin
February 2008
Robots »
David Hanson on robot love.
February 2008 Interview by Skip Hollandsworth
Dell Freezes Over »
It’s not just the stock price. It’s not just the executive exodus. It’s not just the flaming laptops. It’s not just the lousy customer service. It’s not just the sagging employee morale. It’s all of these things—and it’s deadly serious. Inside the sudden decline of the world’s most
powerful computer company.
October 2006 by S. C. Gwynne
Rocket Man »
Richard Garriott wants to experience space travel because it would be cool—and because his dad did.
January 2006 by Jan Reid
"I Had a Great Future Behind Me" »
So says my friend Jost Lunstroth, one of thousands of formerly successful Texans for whom unemployment is more than a statistic.
February 2004 by Mimi Swartz
Does Not Compute »
Why I won't plug in, boot up, or log on.
April 2002 by Kinky Friedman
This Is living.com? »
He’s worth tens of millions of dollars at age 28, but money, as they say, can’t buy happiness: Two weeks in the life of Andrew Busey, dot-com hotshot.
February 2000 by Katy Vine
Date Line »
The world’s largest online love line.
May 1999 by Patricia Busa McConnico
CompuSoap »
An Austin soap opera goes online.
January 1999 by Patricia Busa McConnico
scalpers.gov »
Internet profiteers target George W. Bush.
January 1999 by Evan Smith
Can John Glenn Do It Again? »
As the 77-year-old prepares for yet another liftoff, fans and foes alike are praising his missionÑand questioning NASA’s.
October 1998 by Helen Thorpe
Success by Design »
At Texas’ top industrial design firm, the old style-versus-substance debate is a nonstarter: Why choose when you can have both?
September 1998 by Patricia Sharpe
Total Exposure »
Is there such a thing as privacy on the Internet?
September 1997 by Gregory Curtis
“Boom” Is a Four-letter Word »
No one will admit we’re in the middle of one, even as the economy surges. How come? Because the last time we had it this good, bragging only hastened the arrival of another four-letter word: “bust.”
July 1997 by Helen Thorpe
Fly-boy »
A Wylie computer programmer flies high.
May 1997 by Josh Daniel
Mac Attack »
Computer users at NASA don’t get Mac—they get even.
February 1997 by Pableaux Johnson
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