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This is what I'll be up to on the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. .< 3:09:15 PM  >Taliban's latest censorship: music Instruments are destroyed and musicians must hide or face punishments. Music has long been an important part of Afghani culture. .< 2:04:04 AM > SpaceRef.Com: "This morning at 1038 UT a powerful X2.6 solar flare erupted near the large sunspot 9632. A radiation storm (currently S2-class) is in progess and intensifying. The explosion also hurled a lopsided halo coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The Earth-directed CME will sweep past our planet late Tuesday or Wednesday and probably trigger geomagnetic storms."  [Scripting News]
Here's a safe bet. There'll be a power outage in Québec this week. .< 1:55:55 AM >Red Apple [Professional Bartender's Potent Potables] I've stayed away from apple juice in drinks so far but really must give it a try. This looks like a nice simple way to start. .< 1:46:32 AM >Canon EOS-1D professional digital SLR. 13:00 JST / 04:00 GMT: Canon has today announced its EOS-1V based digital SLR, the EOS-1D. It features a 1.3x focal length multiplier, 4.48 megapixel CCD producing a 4.06 megapixel (2464 x 1648) image. The... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] This is what I want! 7k US bucks? Oh. Well, I want one of these about 5% of the price. Seriously though. I've invested in an analogue EOS and lenses so I just want a digital version. .< 1:35:38 AM >On Slashdot, Philip Zimmerman, the developer of PGP, says that the Washington Post misrepresented him in their article about software used by the terrorists. "This misrepresentation is serious, because it implies that under the duress of terrorism I have changed my principles on the importance of cryptography for protecting privacy and civil liberties in the information age." [Scripting News]
Two things: it's important to keep our heads about us even in times of chrisis; the media will tell the story it wants to tell. .< 1:29:54 AM >Dispatches from Afghanistan. Like Vietnam chronicler Michael Herr, Russian journalist Artyom Borovik captured the hallucinatory hell of war -- but these days it's Borovik's account of Afghanistan that seems the most relevant. [Salon.com] |
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