Word: flicks
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...consciousness. While we cannot really think of a computer running this "babbler" program as having a fully human-like intelligence, we can consider it to be a viable presidential candidate. Well, to be fair, this "artificial" candidate has one major advantage over its flesh-and-blood cousin--with a flick of a switch its inane babbling is silenced...
SOUND AND FURRY Staid and serious chipmaker Intel has branched out into frivolity with a line of high-tech toys called Intel Play. The latest is the Computer Sound Morpher ($49), which looks a lot like a personal communicator from a '50s sci-fi flick. Armed with Intel's Morpher, kids can record voices and other sounds and then edit, distort, remix and generally transmogrify them on their PCs. Warning: parental commands may lose some authority when played back in "chipmunk" mode...
...used to think these individuals were just very risk-averse people who weren't entrepreneurial enough to take a risk and try and make money without saying "Yes, sir" every day. But with big banks merging left and right these days and entire groups getting cut with the flick of a CEO's pen, landing a job at a bank won't guarantee you anything but a lot of work...
...Hardball, currently shooting in Chicago, KEANU REEVES plays a ticket scalper sentenced to coach some Little League ragamuffins from the Cabrini-Green housing project. Sounds saccharine enough for a Robin Williams flick, but the film, very loosely based on actual events, has Chicago Mayor Richard Daley fuming. A copy of the screenplay Daley obtained has Reeves' li'l sluggers acting like delinquents and making liberal use of the F word. (You'd think Daley might protest that the film's central plot device is stolen from that 1992 classic, The Mighty Ducks--but no.) "They just don't want this...
...funds in D.C. 4. Euro forerunner 7. Fisherman's __ 12. It's luring young viewers with Survivor 13. It's starting interactive TV in selected cities 14. NASA has found evidence of this on Mars 15. Vivendi has agreed to acquire it 17. Me, Myself and __ (new Carrey flick) 18. Photo __ (camera sessions) 19. Eventual hole in the wall? 20. Toots of restaurant fame 23. Ankle bones 27. Osama bin __, who has been linked to the Philippines' Moro Islamic Liberation Front 29. The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her 33. D.C.'s Pennsylvania...