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CLUB SURFING: What club is Smashing Pumpkins playing at in Vienna, Austria? Is that Monkees Reunion tour coming to your town? Search the Worldwide Internet Live Music Archive - http://www.wilma.com - and find out. The site has seemingly complete worldwide listings by venue or band, Cox News Service reports.

EXECUTIVE DECISION: Add the White House to the Internet's red-light district. SurfWatch software, which prevents children from seeing indecent text and pictures on the Net, recently blocked access to part of the White House's Word Wide Web site. That's because it contained a dirty word: "couples." The program searches for words commonly found on sexually explicit Web sites, and "couples" is one of them. But on the White House page - intended for children - the word referred to Bill and Hillary Clinton and Al and Tipper Gore. "It has many different connotations on the Internet," Susan Larson, director of technical support for SurfWatch Software, Inc., said of the offending word. The Los Altos, Calif., company fixed the problem soon after a White House computer systems operator got electronic mail from a youngster who couldn't see the kids page because her parents put the SurfWatch program on their computer.

TOLL ROAD: Pacific Bell's rush onto the "information superhighway" is running into traffic from two Mac trucks - Intel Corp. and Compaq Corp., the San Francisco Chronicle reports. In an unusual assault, the two high-tech giants - the largest chipmaker and computer maker, respectively - are fighting Pac Bell's plans to raise rates for high-speed Internet access, known as ISDN, or integrated services digital network. They call the price hikes "unreasonable" and argue that the increases could stifle high-tech growth in California. They also criticized Pac Bell's customer service for ISDN lines.

FORCED EFFORT: Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker will be coming soon to CD-ROMs for personal computer users, Marin County filmmaker and media mogul George Lucas has announced. Lucas Learning Ltd., a new company at Lucas' entertainment group, will be piloted by multimedia executive Susan Schilling, whom Lucas has hired away from Minneapolis-based MECC, the San Francisco Examiner reports. According to Schilling, the new company - to be stocked with Lucas veterans from Industrial Light & Magic and LucasArts, plus outside hires - will feature "product tie-in strategy with 'Star Wars' stories and characters, embedded within learning projects for both the home and school market," she said.

TRAFFIC JAM: In an incident reminiscent of the Pentium math flaw, Intel Corp. apparently has fixed a bug in the chips that surround its new Pentium Pro microprocessor, without explicitly telling customers that its newest system ever had a problem in the first place, the San Francisco Examiner reports. The flaw apparently involves the Orion chipset that works hand in glove with the new Pentium Pro or P6 microprocessor. The Orion acts like a pipeline, carrying computations from the P6 to other parts of a computer system, such as network devices, hard disk drives and memory chips. Intel spokesman Tom Waldrop said last week his company had not hidden the Pentium Pro's input-output problems.