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Shortly after winning the gold and silver medals in the men's 500-metre short-track event, Marc Gagnon and Jonathan Guilmette led Canada to a gold medal in a lop-sided 5,000m relay final. "I'm so happy, I feel like I'm going to throw up," a giddy Hughes told CBC after the race. "I just had to go out there and do it. I had the race of my life." That's our girl! .< 11:31:38 PM  >CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics - Gold and silver for Canada in men's 500m short-trackGagnon, Guilmette race to 1-2 finish Awesome! .< 3:55:53 PM >Doing some work this afternoon on a static site which I've now moved into Radio 8. There's a new feature (at least new since 5.x) which I really appreciate. If you give the command to render a page which is not in fact a page, instead of going ahead and creating a pile of error messages and generating a bogus page, Radio now simply halts and thows up an error message. Nice! .< 2:34:37 AM >It scares me when Microsoft runs articles entitled "The Death of the Browser?" Why does it scare me? Because if Bill Gates woke up one morning and decided to kill the browser, he could do it. He could even do it slowly so no one notices.  [Scripting News].< 2:24:55 AM >NBC holds its own against CBC's coverage: "There's a charming lack of pretension and hype to CBC's approach to Olympics. Plus, you can see many more events covered live and in their entirety, from cross-country skiing to curling. That's our very lucky geographic bonus in the Motor City, snuggly adjacent to the Canadian border.
Most of America, however, has to make do with NBC's packaged programming geared to prime time, hosted by talented Bob Costas with a touch too much smirky glibness. " Thank the leader of the Axis of Stupidity .< 2:12:40 AM >PC Magazine: iMac elegant and powerful [MacNN] Bring on the converts! .< 2:05:34 AM >Copy-protection company claims 10m discs already out there. Gramophone Feb 23 2002 0:01AM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news] .< 2:03:20 AM >We got a nice mention on TechTV's ScreenSavers show, and there are lots of new Radio 8 users tonight. [Scripting News]Go Radio! .< 1:56:55 AM >Wired: "In a stunning turnaround, a district court judge ruled Friday that the five major record labels must prove they own thousands of music copyrights. And prove those copyrights weren't used to monopolize and stifle the distribution of digital music." [Scripting News]Yup, 'stunning' would be about the right word. .< 1:51:04 AM >Mary Wehmeier's Radio Weblog: "Honestly, the posse sat in our crows nest, watching in total awe of Sarah and how she laid one item after another out on the ice with more maturity, style and grace than most professional skaters ever muster in a lifetime. We all kept looking at one another saying in whispers-- oh my God! Go get em kid! And applauding wildly at just how well she was performing. It was hitting us Sarah had the *it*." Fabulous, amateur, insider reporting. In this case the topic is figure skating, but blogging just might change the world as we all have access to upaid experts. Bravo. .< 1:37:23 AM >Thestar.com/Canada aims for nothing but gold: "Most of today's Team Canada were either unborn or in short pants in 1972 when Paul Henderson's goal won the Summit Series over the Soviet Union and restored a nervous nation's sense of worth." My how time flies. Hard to believe. It was definitely a defining moment in this country's history. .< 1:07:57 AM >Photographer to the Tsar: The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition): "The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world--the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution." Colour photographs of pre-WW I Russia! One of my all-time favourite finds on the web. I found a link to it some time last year and wanted to post it here in hopes that other people might be directed to it. Amazing stuff. |
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