立 - Li4 - Stand, Erect

立方 - Li4 Fang1 - Standing Square – Cube

傅立葉 - Fu4 Li4 Ye4 - Fourier

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SiliconValley.com - Professional video-game players had their say recently in Professor Henry Lowood’s class on video games at Stanford University.

Reuters - Video game publisher Take-Two
Interactive Software Inc. on Monday announced a
long-term licensing deal with Major League Baseball, a week
after reaching an accord with the union representing the
league’s players.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. intends to submit a formal proposal to the government of Singapore to develop a casino in the city-state, the company’s president said Friday. The company had previously expressed interest in Singapore, which is inviting seve

Full House Entertainment, the newest player in software development for Internet gaming and the e-commerce industries, is pleased to announce the beta launch of its Multiplayer poker system on February 1st, Full House Poker® V-1.3. “Poker is growi

U.K. gaming companies led by Rank Group Plc and Gala Group Ltd. are fighting Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plan to open the industry to Las Vegas-style casinos, saying their businesses will be damaged by the competition. The British Casino Associat

Don’t confuse All In for yet another shelter or lifestyle magazine. It’s for readers who want to improve their poker game or reclaim the deed to the house they lost in a game of Texas Hold ‘em. That’s the premise for this new national paid-circul

The recent grand opening of the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino southeast of Palm Springs wasn’t just a party with chilled lobster tails and the disco sounds of Kool and the Gang. It was the latest move by Southern California tribes to transform their

袖 - Xiu4 - Sleeve

綠袖子 - Lu4 Xiu4 Zi5 - Green Sleeve – Greensleeves

Cory Doctorow:
Steven Johnson (author of the fantastic Mind Wide Open and other books) has written a fascinating essay about his new creative process, which involves a suite of tools that store his notes and works in unstructured databases, and tease out and suggest subtly connected ideas, so that as he writes, his computer jams with him, suggesting neat tangents to his subjects. It’s a great example of good computer-human interaction, where computers are used to programatically count and compare quantifiable elements (word and phrase frequencies) and human beings are used to pass judgement on the output of the computers. People are good at understanding and crap at counting; computers are just the reverse.

Johnson’s piece is a thought-provoking look at how productivity software can really change the way that you work — that you think! Writing in the era of these tools is truly a different undertaking than the writing of old.

Think of all the documents you have on your machine that are longer than a thousand words: business plans, articles, ebooks, pdfs of product manuals, research notes, etc. When you’re making an exploratory search through that information, you’re not looking for the files that include the keywords you’ve identified; you’re looking for specific sections of text — sometimes just a paragraph — that relate to the general theme of the search query. If I do a Google Desktop search for “Richard Dawkins” I’ll get dozens of documents back, but then I have to go through and find all the sections inside those documents that are relevant to Dawkins, which saves me almost no time.

So the proper unit for this kind of exploratory, semantic search is not the file, but rather something else, something I don’t quite have a word for: a chunk or cluster of text, something close to those little quotes that I’ve assembled in DevonThink. If I have an eBook of Manual DeLanda’s on my hard drive, and I search for “urban ecosystem” I don’t want the software to tell me that an entire book is related to my query. I want the software to tell me that these five separate paragraphs from this book are relevant. Until the tools can break out those smaller units on their own, I’ll still be assembling my research library by hand in DevonThink.

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(There’s also an accompanying NYT editorial that Steven wrote, but I can’t get into it since the Times so aggressively blocks bugmenot passwords. If you think that newspapers should have the right to positively identify their casual readers, you can create a login and read this. Not me, though.)

(Thanks, Steven!)

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Eliot Jacobson believes every player can beat the casinos fair and square at their own games. He wrote his new book, The Blackjack Zone, to help individual players beat the casinos at blackjack. He doesn’t promise that anyone will be able to change t

Nick Panchev Architect & Associates (NPA), a member of the Dinastytown Consortium, Inc. (DCI), is to prepare at no fee (free of charge) to business owners along Ramsey Street, East of 22nd street, in the City of Banning, certain renderings in color,

忘 - Wang4 - Forget

This one is made of 亡 - Wang2 - Die, Escape and 心 - Xin1 - Heart, Mind.

I wish I could 忘記 - Wang2 Ji4 - Forget The Forgotten. Awful.

Testing New Video Poker Games. National Post story

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蓋 - Gai4 - Cover, Build, Construct, Imprint

鏡頭 - Jing4 Tou2 - Mirror Head - Lens, Scene

鏡頭蓋 - Jing4 Tou2 Gai4 - Mirror Head Cover – Lens Cap

And here’s your full Chinese/English photography dictionary.

This book was excerpted in the January 10th issue of Fortune. Here’s the link. Got my attention. I expect it to be hot with the Boomer Generation. Good advice for all of us, however.

Here’s the link to the book at Amazon through my site
Younger Next Year