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Great! This is a tool I use every day with Radio. As Mike Krus - the tool's creator - points out, it's possible to tweak the formatting of the posts. I remove the emphasis tags from the quoted text and then add a blockquote and italicis to the end of the post. This way my comments to a post are set off from the original news post. .< 3:04:59 AM  >Radio UserLand : Wishlist - category command file before rendering: "Adding this to #prefs.txt works: #setDaysToDisplay weblogData.prefs.ctDaysToDisplay = 10 where setDaysToDisplay is some made-up directive name, since you're only after the side effect." How to set a specific category to display a differernt number of days than the home page. Read to the end of the thread for more details. .< 2:44:01 AM >Tessa: Sign of the Postal Times. An avatar that can sign for the hearing-impaired will soon be introduced to post offices in England. Inventors hope for a stamp of approval. By Louise Knapp. [Wired News] .< 2:42:04 AM >Where Old Macs Go Off to Thrive. Old, all-in-one Macintosh computers are nothing more than landfill in the United States. But in Japan, they're valuable collector's items with second-hand stores devoted to them. Leander Kahney reports from Tokyo. [Wired News] .< 2:40:27 AM >Mobile phones more dangerous than drink driving. One for the road? [The Register] So can we do something about this? Think about how (rightfully) demonized the drunk driver is. Guess what? Talking on the phone while driving is worse! I've been guilty. No more. P.S. Is that a UK phrase? 'Drink driving'? .< 2:34:11 AM >The Register: Cyborg strip-searched by Air Canada: ""My client is a cyborg, not a terrorist."" Perhaps he's a twit. .< 2:33:13 AM >Too many invites to the Ontario PC Party. Globe and Mail Mar 22 2002 5:30AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 'The candidate isn't the focus of the leadership campaign; it is the capacity of money and hired help to sign up names.' .< 2:22:09 AM >Rochambeau, Macworld-Tokyo Style. Macworld Tokyo visitors play rock-scissors-paper to win booth giveaways. Also: The 'glamorous' attendees.... Jobs' keynote, redux.... and more, in Leander Kahney's notebook from Macworld Tokyo. [Wired News] .< 2:15:08 AM >[12:25 ET] We now have our second report on Macworld Tokyo 2002 from contributing editor Joel Breckinridge, who offers his trademark analysis and colorful impressions of the Japanese Mac scene (complete with photos). [Macintouch] .< 2:14:03 AM >One year ago today, Glenn Fleishman nailed it. "There are a lot of plans floating around to control media, and none of them benefit the artists or consumers, and all of them impose ridiculous burdens on manufacturers." Even more true today.  [Scripting News].< 2:03:08 AM >John Boynton: "The single best thing you can do with stylesheets is to add a little extra space between your lines of text." [Scripting News].< 1:55:33 AM >Guardian Unlimited Observer | UK News | Thumbs are the new fingers for the GameBoy generation The study, carried out in nine cities around the world, shows that the thumbs of the younger generation have overtaken their fingers as the hand's most muscled and dexterous digit. The change affects those who have grown up with hand-held devices capable of text messaging, emailing and accessing internet services. Experts claim it proves technology is causing physical alterations that previously happened over generations. Gag. NO! This is silly journalism. I'm not sure if writers purposely mislead readers or if they just don't understand that they are leaping to conclusions. This is not a physical alteration nor is it any kind of mutation. It's a change in behaviour. Big difference. .< 1:47:46 AM >ARTS & FARCES internet : When elephants dance: "ïFD2If you think about it, the entertainment industry does not want people to have computers; they're too powerful, too flexible, and too extensible. They want people to have Internet Entertainment Platforms: televisions, VCRs, game consoles, etc.ïFD3 " The entertainment industry wants to control the bits. Get over it guys. .< 1:34:28 AM >No More Fortissimo? Europe Wants a Little Quiet. Legislation in Brussels would limit the decibel level in the workplace in the European Union, with concert halls and opera houses included. By Bernard Holland. [New York Times: Arts] Completely ridiculous. I'm all for a quieter world but legislating maximum peak levels at a classical music concert is damn silly. Measuring sound pressure levels is not a trivial task. It is even more difficult to properly relate those measurements and our exposure to peak levels over time to hearing damage. .< 1:26:50 AM >Finding Freedom Under a Guiding Hand. Vienna Philharmonic concerts raise an old question: who really needs a conductor? By James R. Oestreich. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:58:46 AM >A Virtuoso Who Favors the Fringe. The curiosity of the French-Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin sends him down many forgotten, intriguing paths. By Jeremy Eichler. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:44:11 AM >Freeplay Music, Inc FreePlay music may also be synchronized in programming for the purpose of retail videotape or DVD distribution, if such distribution follows broadcast or transmission of the synchronized FreePlay music in the programming over radio, television, satellite, wireless or Internet media. These rights are also granted for personal, non-commercial uses. These reproduction rights (known as mechanical, synchronization and master recording rights) are absolutely FREE, and are granted in perpetuity. Could be a handy resource. Apple also provides these via iTools for folks who use iMovie to make their own videos. .< 12:35:24 AM >Lilith: Geek Music to Girls' Ears. Susannah Camic started a computer club for middle school girls when she was in 10th grade. It's helped hundreds of girls get a boost building technology skills. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] |
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