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...mark it as a favorite (using the "+" button on the remote) or give it a thumbs-down (with the "-" button). The uMusic system stores your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using a database that catalogs each song. If it guesses wrong, you hit the "-" button to skip a song and train the system...
...part of the evolving world of museums, operating under the influence of everything from theme parks to installation art, that presentations make ever more of their points through mood and metaphor rather than written information. This museum is no exception. One long, curving display case holds hundreds of guns and rifles, from finely engraved Spanish pistols to modern Glocks, to bring home the ways in which force has always been the final arbiter in dealings between natives and settlers. Would it be useful somewhere to have that old-fashioned timeline too? Jolene Rickard, a professor at the University at Buffalo...
...mark it as a favorite (using the "+" button on the remote) or give it a thumbs-down (with the "?" button). The uMusic system stores your preferences, then creates customized presets that play songs you have indicated you like, as well as tunes from your collection that have a similar mood, melody or genre. It makes these calculations using a database that catalogs each song. If it guesses wrong, you hit the "?" button to skip a song and train the system. After a few days, uMusic did a good job of learning my tastes. But it offers too few options...
...criticism as praise. Though silence on topics outside one's immediate purview is no doubt appreciated in many quarters, the closest a prominent U.S. designer is likely to get to such activism is to dress a Dixie Chick. Like other artists, designers must constantly monitor and process the public mood to create a relevant product, but whether out of economic self-interest or lack of curiosity, such consideration rarely translates into political expression...
...That mood barely lasted another week. In November at a small breakfast that included the four top congressional leaders and Bush and Cheney, the President asked Daschle to move quickly on some controversial judicial nominees. Nothing doing, Daschle said. After the breakfast meeting broke up, Lott pulled Bush and Cheney aside and said, "That's the real Tom Daschle you just saw." Daschle felt he had also seen the real George Bush when the President insisted on pushing through another tax cut, with or without the Democrats on board. Soon Cheney went on TV denouncing Daschle and the Democrats...