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] Gary Kasparov achieved a psychologically important draw
] against his computer opponent Deep Junior in the second
] game of their six-round match on Tuesday.
] Playing black, the former world champion forced Deep
] Junior into a draw by sacrificing a strong piece for
] better tactical position. But observers said Deep
] Junior's performance improved, compared to the first game
] in which Kasparov won easily.

Drawn chess game lifts Kasparov

] Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee and Itten, as
] well as the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel and his
] friend Salvador Dali, were said to be the inspiration
] behind a series of secret cells and torture centres built
] in Barcelona and elsewhere, yesterday's El Pais newspaper
] reported.
]
] Most were the work of an enthusiastic French
] anarchist, Alphonse Laurencic, who invented a form of
] "psychotechnic" torture, according to the research of the
] historian Jose Milicua.

This is wild...

The Guardian | Surrealist art used as torture...

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!

"Wal-Mart's influence on the U.S. economy has reached levels not seen by a single company since the 19th-century rise of Standard Oil, economists and historians say. Even if you don't shop at Wal-Mart, the retail powerhouse increasingly is dictating your product choices -- and what you pay -- as its relentless price cutting helps keep inflation low."

Interesting article on just how huge Wal-Mart has become.

Wal-Mart's influence grows

Observe the 2 easter egg launches on the automatic transmission system.

Fun with an M3

Digital piracy does indeed threaten to overwhelm so-called “content” industries. As the power and reach of the internet continue to grow, the illicit trading of perfect copies may well devastate the music, movie and publishing industries.

No, not devestate. Transform. There is a difference, but it is up to the firms to make a choice as to which they want.

My stance is to repeal copyright altogether. I think it would be a tremendous boon to humanity to have freely flowing content and ideas. At the very least, it would be a grand experiment.

But in the interests of practicality and a smooth(er) transition, at least pull back copyright to something more in line with the shelf life of content. Something like 5 years.

Economist.com on Copyrights

] World chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated computerized
] challenger Deep Junior on Sunday in the first of six
] games pitting human wit against computer logic.

Awesome! Go Kasparov!

Kasparov 1, chess computer 0

I'm almost disappointed that I'm going to see the Pretenders tonight now.

The State of the Union Drinking Game 2003

Another great 'Switch' Ad..

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