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...poison of choice happens to be "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater" for Sony Play Station. The sport of virtual skateboarding, somehow overlooked in the broad scope of Harvard varsity athletics, requires a focus and persistence perhaps unmatched by sports that require the competitor(s) to move...
...Jersey City and they said it was readily available, and everything was in place to make the order when the proprietor asked "Can I have your permit number, please?" I indicated that I didn't know what he was talking about. He said to go to the police station and fill out the forms and they'd issue the permit in six weeks...
What I needed was Radio Me: a station that knew my likes and dislikes so intimately, it could offer me new music that would hit my groove each time. This concept being something of a holy grail in the digital-music world, there has been an explosion of websites that offer music custom-made for you--among them radio.sonicnet.com (owned by MTV's online division), tuneto.com and mongomusic.com But be warned: most can be wrong as often as they are right...
...about 50 subgenres. You're asked how much you like to listen to each on a scale of 0 to 5. I nixed rap and country, gave Top 40 a low priority and high marks to electronica, jazz, R. and B., classical and old-school rock. I named my station "Taylor Radio: Home of Tasteful Music." And what did Sonicnet choose for Taylor Radio's inaugural tune? Electric Youth, by that forgettable '80s pop singer Debbie Gibson. Ouch...
Tuneto takes the opposite approach: you start off by ranking a screen full of artists (Are the Police better than Madonna? Is Seal better than Supertramp?), and then you get matched to one of thousands of preset stations according to your preferences. You can do this five times in five different genres. It isn't exactly personal radio, because you're likely to be sharing each station with 10 or 20 other listeners, and you can't skip ahead or pause tracks. But here's the cool bit: your thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote on each artist here will...