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Rock on! Even I'm watching some games this year. I think the Olympics got me back into it. But the fact that a Canadian team has made it this far give me something to tune in for. Since that Canadian team is the Leafs, it's impossible to avoid it here in TO. .< 4:42:32 PM  >Teenager With Too Much of Nothing to Do. Josh Koury's 65-minute nonfiction film could serve as a model for what digital video technology might bring. By Dave Kehr. [New York Times: Arts]' Highly irritating at first, Mr. Koury's passive technique eventually begins to yield some interesting results.' .< 4:23:28 PM >More farmers leaving the land 
There are fewer people farming in Canada according to the latest figures from Statistics Canada. Though there were almost 247,000 farms in the country last year, that's down more than 10 per cent from the 1996 census. [CBC News] The family farm is dying. Sad but true. And probably for the best from an efficiency/business point of view. .< 4:20:15 PM >Nikon Coolpix 3 - what's it all about?. Nikon it would appear is going to announce a new digital camera on May 29th. That according to a new splash 'pop-up' on the Nikon Coolpix (USA) website. The clues are - Simply Cool, Digital from all Angles,... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 4:18:19 PM >WWDC 2002: Everyone needs a pet Jaguar. MacEdition: “The most exciting news to come out of the keynote, though, is an answer to the notoriously sluggish Quartz rendering. Mix in a liberal dose of hardware acceleration (Radeon or better cards only, please), broil for 4 months, and what do you get? Quartz Extreme.” [ranchero.com] .< 4:17:10 PM >iPhoto 1.1.1 Adds Needed Features. O’Reilly: “The iPhoto team didn’t waste much time putting together the first major upgrade for Apple’s digital photo organizer. It’s a hefty upgrade, and if you haven’t taken a look at the new version yet, you may want to after you read about the additional features.” [ranchero.com] .< 4:10:27 PM >Stuck in a digital radio daze , Norman Lebrecht , 5/15/2002 [La Scena Musicale - News] Digital Audio Broadcast has always looked like a solution in search of a problem. .< 1:49:30 AM >Mac OS X OpenOffice uses the X11 windowing system from XFree86.org in a preliminary Mac "developer build" of the open-standards office suite, which was originally created as StarOffice and subsequently acquired by Sun Microsystems. [See OpenOffice white papers for more background.] [Macintouch] .< 1:46:32 AM >PCs: For Whom the Decibels Toll. Add this to the list of complaints against personal computers: The noise they make annoys some people to no end. But it's not like noise is going to affect purchasing decisions. Or is it? By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News] .< 1:34:23 AM >U.S. farm subsidies now law U.S. President George W. Bush has signed into law a farm subsidy bill that will see American farmers collect $190 billion in the next 10 years. Opponents say the bill will lead to overproduction which in turn will mean lower prices for crops and commodities. [CBC News] Dubbya moves the US further towards protectionism. .< 1:31:47 AM >Radio to the Past (and Future). [Mark Paschal: Kit] This is a big one. I'm going to wait to see how it settles in. .< 1:23:33 AM >Dazed by a Technical Knockout. The BMW 745i is a remarkable car with so many genuine technical advancements that it is surely the world's most advanced sedan. By James G. Cobb. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:19:17 AM >1-Inch Analog Gains Ground in L.A.
Los Angeles (May 13, 2002)--Artists and producers in the Los Angeles area
are steadily notching up their demand for stereo mastering on the 1-inch
analog format. In response, studios and rental companies are purchasing
additional inventories of 1-inch ATR-102s from ATR Service Company. [ProSound News]
CONCORD, N.H. -- The U.S. Civil War attracted tens of thousands of fighters from Canada, a largely overlooked chapter of Franco-American history.Now, the battlefield exploits of one underage fighter who endured the final bloody months of the war have been published in English for the first time, offering new insights to historians, Civil War buffs and Franco-Americans whose ancestors brought their culture to the United States. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] The Kimmel Centre is a new Artec room in Philadelphia. A music critic compares it to Carnegie Hall. .< 1:06:25 AM >A recent NewsForge posting describes a Microsoft software piracy conviction in France... [Macintouch] How idid they manage to keep this one quiet? .< 1:03:12 AM >[10:00 ET] James Sentman's CD Session Burner for Mac OS X, available in a first beta version, improves Mac OS X's CD-R software: "Although Mac OS X has built in disk burning software, it burns the whole disk whether you have used all the available space or not. CD Session Burner can burn multiple sessions to the same disk until all the space is used up. This makes it terrific for making incremental backups. When you use a multi-session CD each session is mounted as a separate volume."[Macintouch] .< 12:52:24 AM >Apple Offers Computer Servers. CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) -- Stepping beyond the sluggish desktop market, Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday introduced a computer server based on the UNIX platform. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:50:26 AM >States: Microsoft Urged Linux Retaliation. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) executive urged the company to quietly retaliate against supporters of the rival Linux operating system in an August 2000 memo that nine states still suing the software giant want admitted as evidence. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:49:03 AM >Jimmy Carter criticizes Cuba in uncensored speech
Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter delivered an unprecedented and uncensored speech to the Cuban public Tuesday, calling for a referendum on civil rights reforms in the country. [CBC News] Congratulations to Jimmy Carter and Fidel Castro. This must have pea-brain Dubbya in tizzy. .< 12:46:14 AM >Marker pens, sticky tape crack music CD protection. Next, how to rip CDs with an arc welder [The Register] .< 12:34:27 AM >Do More with iPhoto 1.1.1 (13-May-2002; 12.2K) [TidBITS] .< 12:29:53 AM >Health system facing serious problems: report
An internal report prepared for deputy health ministers concludes the health system is in serious difficulty, according to CBC Radio. [CBC News] .< 12:19:28 AM >The Evolution of Darwin. Apple: “Darwin is like Linux with a day job: By day, it stays discreetly in the background, running Mac OS X. By night, Darwin shows its open source roots: hackable, extensible, and the product of the same community, culture, and traditions that created Apache, sendmail, GNU/Linux, Mozilla, and UNIX itself. Users are happy, but engineers also get to have their fun.” [ranchero.com] .< 12:15:27 AM >RealNames to Shut Down as Microsoft Deal Scuttled. The president of RealNames Corp said his company is shutting down because Microsoft will not renew contract to use RealNames technology in the Internet Explorer browser. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:13:59 AM >A Sour Note for Mac Users. New copy protection technology designed to prevent the pirating of music CDs is doing that, all right. It's also causing Apple computers to crash and making a lot of people very upset. By Andy Patrizio. [Wired News] .< 12:13:09 AM >Byron Fast: "Journalists and newspapers and the TV aren't going to change how they report news, so just get used to that. It's not a perfect world. This doesn't mean they are irrelevant or dangerous, it just means you have to listen to four blind men describe an elephant and create the correct mental picture yourself. The wonderful thing about today is that you can read the opinion of dozens of blind men and women in weblogs, and although the spelling may suck you can make a clearer picture of that elephant than people have ever had opportunity to do."  [Scripting News]Weblogs: poor spelling but lots of opinions! .< 12:04:27 AM >Apple Introduces Xserve Rack-Mount Server (14-May-2002; 1.7K) [TidBITS] .< 12:02:38 AM >Few details in 'friendly fire' interim report
Retired general Maurice Baril left many questions unanswered in his interim report on the deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. [CBC News] |
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