Sunday, 24 February 2002
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ABC News - Canada breaks ice hockey gold drought: "Canadians won five of the first six Olympic titles but had not captured Olympic gold in the sport their homeland adores since the amateur Edmonton Mercurys won at Oslo in 1952. "
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A day made for hockey hooky. Globe and Mail Feb 23 2002 1:34PM ET [Moreover - moreover...]
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In the latest twist in the Napster trial,
Judge Patel is examining the question of music label collusion, according to a News.com story:
"Specifically, Napster argued that the labels have sought to impose anti-competitive licensing terms with online rivals even as they have created joint ventures among themselves aimed at tapping the same market.
Friday's decision gave new life to those arguments.
'The evidence now shows that the plaintiffs have licensed their catalogues of works for digital distribution in what could be an overreaching manner,' Patel wrote. 'The evidence also suggests the plaintiffs' entry into the digital distribution marketplace may run afoul of antitrust laws.'"
[Macintouch]
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HBImageProcessor 1.0 is a new image editor for Mac OS X that works on duplicate image files, leaving the original unchanged. Hog Bay Software's $15 utility features drag and drop support, file format conversion, variable compression, and the ability to crop, rotate and resize images. [Macintouch]Looks like a cool utility. Leave the original alone.
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LA Times: "Chuck Jones, the animator who helped give life to that wascally wabbit, the portly pig, the lisping duck and the tormented coyote, died Friday in his Corona del Mar home. He was 89." [Scripting News]
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National Post: "On Sept. 11, however, there was no appetite for debating the merits of Web scripting tools, nor for discussion of Microsoft's questionable business practices. Instead, Winer posted news updates, first-person reports from the streets of New York and links to articles about everything from the history of the World Trade Center to a discussion of the knives the terrorists used." [Scripting News]Whaddya know? A Canuck paper picks up the story. I wonder how Mr. Cowan made the connection with Scripting News. I think we're at that happy/sad moment where something move into the mainstream. It's like when your favourite band - the one you've been following for years - suddenly goes to number one. You're happy for their success. But you're sorry that the connection you had with them is a whole lot less unique.
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Montreal Symphony Orchestra gets a new home. CBC Feb 23 2002 12:06PM ET [Moreover - Arts and culture news]Great news for the OSM. Félécitations! Here's hoping they get something with great acoustics.
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Click on the pictures to read the full story at the cbc.ca.
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