The Airstream Futuropolis: The Tomorrow That Never Was.

I would be fairly serious in saying that William Gibson's The Gernsback Continuum is one of the best short stories you will ever read. In my mind it ranks up there with Joyce's The Dead. Gibson is an author that might well be grouped into a particular genre of the day, but will inevitably transcend such categories, and rightly so -- his work is too brilliant not to.

Pre-endgame Phase

Maven is the current best known artificial intelligence Scrabble player, created by Brian Sheppard. It has been used in official licensed Hasbro Scrabble games, and the downloadable Funkitron Scrabble.

Once again, thank you Wikipedia for giving my life meaning. What would I do all day if I couldn't sift through endless amounts of information, waiting for that random speck of data to glom onto my mind-tank for some cogitation.