One Canuck's Radio WeblogA 'news items' 'clipping service' for myself and anyone else who's interested |
| Last modified: |
|
30/1/2006; 1:10:41 |
|
This is a wonderful rant. Go read the article. One little quote from it doesn't do it justice. .< 5:57:14 PM  >Salon.com Politics | A Saddam connection? The central trail of evidence appears to show bin Laden's unquestionable complicity, but a second, subtler set of footprints may lead to Saddam's door .< 5:54:01 PM >Salon.com People | They live to give Yusuf Islam, the man the world knew as Cat Stevens before he left the pop music biz to devote himself to Islam, has stepped up to condemn last week's attacks. Islam, who caused a stir a few years back by appearing to endorse the fatwa against Salman Rushdie (he insists he was misunderstood), has issued a statement, posted on the fan site CatStevens.com, decrying last week's violence.
Phew. Dude was getting too weird on me there for a while. .< 5:48:44 PM >New York Loves America New York is not alone in suffering from a drop in tourists, of course. Airline vacation travel has stalled, and hotels and restaurants around the country have been deluged with cancellations. But for New York, the loss of so many visitors is like a second body blow coming at a time when the city needs help in returning to normal. Right now, New York is far too uncrowded for its own good. I was supposed to be at a convention this weekend in NYC. I got postponed to the Nov-Dec weekend. A lot of people have been thinking twice about going even then. I love New York. I want to be there. I just hope the US is not at war. It will be very hard to go there under those circumstances. .< 5:44:40 PM >Al-Ahram Weekly | Fall-out | Caught in the middle Cairo is urging caution and restraint to a hotheaded Washington, warning: look before you leap, write Nevine Khalil and Soha Abdelaty ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Egyptian officials did not miss the opportunity this week to promote their decade-old call for organising an international anti-terrorism conference as the best means of stamping out terrorism worldwide. Decade-old . . . . .< 5:33:30 PM >Six Nominated for Englands Booker Prize. International Herald Tribune Sep 22 2001 5:24AM ET [Arts and culture news] No Canucks this year. .< 5:30:56 PM >MS Denies Wingding Thing, Again The resultant collection of images -- which includes symbols for a skull and crossbones, a Star of David and a thumbs-up sign -- has led some to conjecture that the program contains a deliberate anti-Semitic message.
My goodness people are pretty spooked out there these days. .< 5:18:55 PM >IHT: In U.S. Media, Flags and Flag-Waving In between presenting straightforward reports - or even, like Mr. Rather, in interviews away from their news programs - anchors and correspondents have not hesitated to conduct the post-attack coverage primarily through the prism of U.S. patriotism. . Use of the pronouns "our" and "us" has been commonplace. . CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC have incorporated screen icons of waving, American flags. . And red, white and blue ribbons and flag pins have at times adorned the lapels of news anchors, including Brit Hume on the Fox News Channel and Tim Russert of NBC. . Critics say that, with such displays, they undermine their position as disinterested conveyors of news and can intensify public opinion in a way that could help push the American public into a war footing. This is a big problem. Very soon we'll have to start hearing some critical voices again. .< 5:11:27 PM >EXABYTE AND ECRIX SIGN DEFINITIVE MERGER AGREEMENT - VXA Tape Drives and Media for Data Storage and Backup from Ecrix"... we see an excellent opportunity to capture significant share in this market with VXA-1 and VXA-2, an 80 gigabyte drive which is expected to ship to OEMs in late fourth quarter of this year." Great. This could mean the survival of VXA which looks like a very cool format. We're looking for something big to use in backing up my Sonic drives and our projects recorded on RADAR. Maybe we could backup our Genex material as well. Much cheaper than keeping those discs sitting on the shelves for years. The other key will be to find a way to fluidly connect all of these systems in a backup strategy. .< 4:12:21 AM >Japan Today Japan News - Bush tries to calm Canada down The United States sought to smooth Canada's ruffled feathers on Friday over President George W Bush's omission of the U.S. neighbor from a list of countries he thanked for offering anti-terrorism support.
Whoops. OK, I'm of two minds here. The first thought is "hello?!" The second thought is, what the heck. No need to be insecure about it. George ain't so bright. It slipped his mind perhaps. (In the age of the teleprompter?!). All the hand-wringing is related to anxiety about whether we think the American's find fault with Chrétien's response and the fact that before all this happened dubbya seemed unaware that Canada was their biggest trading partner. |
| Archive: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On this day in |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Navigation: |
|
Home The Arts Audio Canuck Fallout Macs Microsoft Music Photography thingsUserland Weblogging 
 |
|