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...gifted, I give in. I give you / all my old synesthetic fire.” These are the more saccharine moments, but they set the general tempo. More frequently, those bytes join forces to experiment in vagueness: “The sex & chess & cello fever’s gone / from your myopic trust, my Avalon.” “rare black-tipped cigarettes / in a handmade basket-case...
...trend watchers are fully aware of your foibles. Scan research firm Media Metrix's list of sites people spend the most time on each month--known as "sticky" sites--and you'll discover that 7 of the top 10 destinations are for online games, such as sweepstakes, bingo and chess. There's pogo.com a hub for virtual card and other games; simslots.com a site where slot-machine junkies can win up to $5,000 each month; and bingo.com the decidedly old-wave site that hooks people for an average of four hours a month, or twice as long...
...binary code and employed his brilliant theories as practically as a rower would an oar; in Medford, Mass. Initially geared to help the telephone industry use automatically switching circuits, Shannon's work with binary code became the basis for all modern digital communications networks. His later work with chess-playing machines helped create the field of artificial intelligence...
...fingertips and then attempts to diagnose a person's health. Joo paid $1 million for the program, which he is marketing to herbal medicine shops that have computers. Samsung, meanwhile, paid $730,000 for five KCC programs, which it is loading onto its PCs. They include cooking software, a chess game and a reading program for children. "Their programmers don't have a lot of access to the outside world," says Samsung's Park, "but their fundamentals are very strong...
...Later that weekend, I had a chat with Sting as he lounged on a couch in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace. "I'm having a good time," he said. He had gotten some sun, and he had also gotten in some chess while hanging out by the pool. Chess and tanning simultaneously. That's why he's Sting. "Brazilian music has informed my work from the very beginning of my career," he said. "Particularly Jobim and Ivan Lins." Sting says he's also a fan of the city of Rio. "It's a very compelling city," he said...