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Best wishes to Wende tonight on the premiere of her new piece. .< 11:51:20 PM  >Hundreds of thousands gather to bid farewell to Queen Mother About 400,000 gathered Tuesday morning in the streets outside Westminster Abbey to witness the pomp and ceremony of the funeral of the Queen Mother. [CBC News] .< 11:05:53 PM >Louise Kehoe: "When I first came across weblogs a year ago I was derisive in this column. I saw them as derivative, mostly comprising links to articles written by other people with brief comments. I thought of them as the digital equivalent of scrapbooks containing pictures and articles cut out of magazines and newspapers. My new-found enthusiasm is based in part on finding a few high-quality examples with original thoughts. I am also drawn in by the format and interactive nature of the weblog."  [Scripting News].< 11:04:21 PM >Russ Lipton: How to Create Shortcuts. [Scripting News]A handy feature for newbies but I'll probably stick to the old glossary mechanism. .< 10:42:51 PM >Organizing Train Wrecks as a Photo Opportunity. Vienna Lynn, who wanders around Canada taking graphic photographs of train wrecks in Howard Norman's new novel, is a monster, yet he is not precisely monstrous. By Richard Eder. [New York Times: Arts] 'Though he is from the United States, Mr. Norman sets all his fiction in Canada, mostly the colder parts, and mostly in the first decades of the 20th century. Why is not clear; perhaps bare remoteness provides him elbow room for slightly tilting the world.' .< 10:38:26 PM >Schumann, via Argerich, Both Ferocious and Gentle. When the pianist Martha Argerich is in stride, she is incomparable, as she was on Monday for her performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. By Anthony Tommasini. [New York Times: Arts] 'A force of nature' is the term I hear applied to Argerich. .< 10:33:42 PM >DaveNet: New York Times, UserLand and Weblogs. [Scripting News].< 10:29:34 PM >Internet.Com: "Although blogs have been around for years, the recent blistering pace of their adoption has captured the imagination of Web hobbyists and online news executives alike." [Scripting News].< 10:26:51 PM >EE Times: Intel wants to turn PCs into wireless LAN access points. Intel is working on ways to repartition the software for an 802.11 access point so that part of the task runs on a PC host and part on an 802.11 client PC card in the system. That could reduce the price of a consumer access point from $250 to about $100... [Tomalak's Realm] .< 10:22:44 PM >MacDICT 2.2 now available for OS X [MacNN] A client for accessing online databases. Free. Donations welcome. .< 10:13:47 PM >Tamil leader promoted suicide bombings, now talks peace The leader who brought the suicide bomber to prominence as a weapon has changed his fatigues for a powder-blue leisure suit in his pursuit of peace. [CBC News] .< 10:11:41 PM >A little bird just passed on the news that Martin Beaver is the new first violin in the Tokyo String Quartet. Congratulations Martin! .< 12:55:46 PM >Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection. Download and listen to the entire Dylan Thomas CD "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems," with a new introduction by Poet Laureate Billy Collins. [Salon.com] I bought a CD of Dylan Thomas reading 'A Child's Christmas in Wales' in NYC at Tower Records a number of years ago. My mom puts it on every Christmas. .< 2:50:49 AM >Deck 3.5: digital audio software OS X comp. [MacNN] .< 2:48:13 AM >BMG to Test Protected CDs on Industry Insiders. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new batch of compact discs designed to defeat Napster-style piracy is coming soon to record-industry insiders. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 2:21:46 AM >Robo-docs. Medical errors kill more people each year than auto accidents, breast cancer or AIDS. Can automating medicine prevent tragedies like the Andrea Yates case? [Salon.com] .< 2:20:42 AM >Canadians gather to remember Vimy Ridge. Toronto Star Online Apr 9 2002 5:50PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] .< 2:11:07 AM >WebDesign 1.5.2 released [MacNN] .< 2:00:28 AM >PC-Mac-Net FileShare v1.5 adds drag n' drop [MacNN] .< 1:42:10 AM >Five Music Libraries Join to Create Librarytracks.com Mar. 28, 2002 -- 615 Music Library, Manhattan Production Music, Megatrax Production Music, Omni Music Library and VideoHelper, the nation's most innovative and creative music companies, have joined forces to launch librarytracks.com, a first-of-its-kind site on the internet to provide an array of production music library services Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 1:21:56 AM >Sonic Studio HD Splits to New Company Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] Very big news. It's a shame it didn't happen a couple of years ago. But I'm really looking forward to eenergy being focused on this superior product. All the best to the nnew team at "Sonic Studio". .< 1:17:33 AM >Digidesign Licenses Sonic NoNOISE Technology Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] Interesting move. Here's hoping (I'm speaking as a Sonic user here) it doesn't cannibalize sales of Sonic Studio and that the plug-in down't get cracked within two weeks. .< 1:10:45 AM >OSXFAQ - Technical News and Support for Mac OS X: "Before departing I asked if he'd consider a Mac next time. He replied, "Absolutely. In fact, if we hadn't wasted so much money trying to transform that Dell into a multimedia computer, I'd get one today." " A fun article on the taken-for-granted multimedia capabilities of Macs. |
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