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A fine article on the best search engine around. .< 7:52:08 PM  >Boxes and Arrows: The story behind Usability.gov. Today, Usability.gov has earned a following among technology professionals. For the uninitiated, Usability.gov is a one-stop source for government web designers to learn how to make websites more usable, useful, and accessible. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 7:48:41 PM >Garth Kidd discovered the feature that makes the instant outline so much more than just an instant outline. There's a mind bomb tucked neatly in there. If you link to another outline it expands in place. It's as a web page links to another page, but you kept your context. All my work with outliners, since 1978, has been about getting to this place. It's a big idea. I call it the world outline, and it's as ambitious an idea as the world wide web. [Scripting News] Yup! This is what I was talking about. .< 7:33:15 PM >The CNET staff dreams of a perfect email client.  [Scripting News].< 7:09:11 PM >Google is working on a SOAP-based API. We've already verified that Frontier and Radio work with it. I'm not sure how much more I can say about this at this time. [Scripting News] This should be fun! .< 6:54:21 PM >Canada to drop textile trade barriers: PM Canada will soon drop some trade barriers in an effort to help African economies grow, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said on Sunday. [CBC News] .< 6:52:15 PM >S.Africa, Canada Confident of Africas Revival Plan. Xinhuanet Apr 7 2002 9:14AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] .< 6:50:55 PM >Cuba Defends Canadian in Embargo Case : ""They have found him guilty in the United States, put him on trial, for selling Cuba resins to purify the water which goes to our schools and homes," Perez said. He added sarcastically: "I don't know what sort of dangerous or strategic material this is. I don't know if you can maybe make a nuclear missile from it." " .< 6:43:58 PM >NYTimes: Oprah Winfrey announced that she would no longer host monthly "book clubs" on her television talk show, saying that she could no longer find enough compelling books. A sad statement indeed [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Sorry, but that's just ridiculous. Can't come up with twelve titles a year? This is not the real explanation. .< 5:31:51 PM >Radio UserLand : Shortcuts: "Shortcuts make it easy to enter repetitive or hard-to-remember text in your weblog" I'm confused. They are already plenty of glossary or shortcut mechanisms available for Manila and Radio. Why a new one? I'd like all my sites to look at one glossary so I can maintain one list. There appears to be a mechanism in place for this already but this new feature (which admittedly would be easier for the newbie to grasp and implement) seems to move in another direction. Must figure this out. .< 4:48:06 PM >~Explained: Crisis in the Middle East. As President Bush tells Sharon to end West Bank occupation Simon Jeffery looks at why the conflict in Israel has reached crisis point and whether peace is possible. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 4:47:28 PM >"My son was killed because of the occupation". Israel's Women in Black say the blood of their children is on Sharon's hands. [Salon.com] .< 4:01:02 AM >With Sept. 11 in Mind, Neil Young Gets Rolling. Neil Young's "Are You Passionate?" is an album of its moment: moody and inconclusive, uncertain about everyday life. [New York Times: Arts] 'Mr. Young mentions a pre-Exxon "Esso station" as he seeks a woman who'll bring back good times.' Whoops. Perhaps rather than reflecting on an earlier time Mr. Young was simply referring to a gas station back home in Canada. Ahem. .< 3:52:30 AM >Good times roll for Canadians: Buoyant economy, job creation, give boost after six months of doubt and turmoil : "And the number of jobs has skyrocketed, astounding experts. According to figures released by Statistics Canada yesterday, 88,000 new jobs were created in March. Add together the past three months, and the country has not seen such a job rush since 1987. " What's going on? .< 3:46:54 AM >Canada takes aim at the red planet. National Post Online Apr 6 2002 10:51PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] .< 3:46:23 AM >Report: MS Foes Bribed Attorneys. A Washington Post columnist claims state attorneys general were bribed by Oracle and Sun, et al., to keep the antitrust case alive. This and more from Washington bureau chief Declan McCullagh's notebook. [Wired News] .< 3:35:46 AM >Display uptime as a screensaver [Mac OS X Hints] The software is called ShowOff .< 3:08:53 AM >Such Serious Music, So Why Not Have Fun? .< 1:53:13 AM >Hugh Caley notes a problem with iMovie, Firewire and Mac OS X that's apparently not a problem under Mac OS 9: "There is a running topic on the Apple iMovie discussions about a problem importing into iMovie over Firewire onto an external Firewire drive under Mac OS X."[Macintouch] No question. There's a problem. I have a 60 Gig Firewire drive I bought to use with iMovie. It imports video just fine if I'm running OS 9 but it jumps and stutters under OS X. It would be great if something gets done about this. .< 1:47:08 AM >Digital Voodoo's new HD Fury is a PCI card for handling uncompressed High Definition 10-bit video on Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. The company describes it as "a high definition capture and playback card featuring 1 HD SDI Input, 1 HD SDI Output and 8 channels of AES/EBU Digital Audio and simultaneous SD SDI downconversion." [Macintouch] .< 1:17:34 AM >The Band Is Gone, the Waltz Plays On: "With a bit of fuzzy math, the 25th anniversary of "The Last Waltz," the original Band's final performance in an all-star concert in 1976, is being celebrated with a fanfare that rivals both the lavishness of the original event and the hoopla surrounding the release two years later of the acclaimed movie and soundtrack album that documented it. The film, "The Last Waltz," which was directed by Martin Scorsese, has begun a 10-city theatrical run. A DVD version, set for release on May 7, offers performances from the concert not seen in the original and commentary by musicians and critics." Great! |
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