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 Saturday, 18 May 2002
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Charges Against Internet Pharmacy. TORONTO (AP) -- In recent years, busloads of Americans have crossed into Canada to buy cheaper prescription drugs with help from Canadian doctors. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
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Making Copy Right for All. A new nonprofit group will provide an alternative to traditional copyrights by making it easier for artists, musicians and programmers to share their works with the public. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]
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Beginning Database Design, Part I. evolt.org: “Creating a database can be a daunting task to a beginner. As with most complex projects, good database design can be broken down into discrete steps which are easier to manage.” [ranchero.com]
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Watching the Alpha Geeks: OS X and the Next Big Thing. Tim O’Reilly’s WWDC keynote: “There have been an amazing number of iBooks at recent O’Reilly conferences. The adoption by key OSS communities and leaders is also striking. For example: most of the Perl core team is now on OS X; James Gosling, Duncan Davidson, and a lot of other key Java developers; P2P developers; many of the key developers in bioinformatics.” [ranchero.com]
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Inside Jaguar: A visual look at Mail and Address Book. ThinkSecret posts a bunch of (supposed) screen shots of Mail and Address Book updated for Jaguar. [ranchero.com]
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OPML Viewer by Scott Johnson. OPML Viewer by Scott Johnson - Web service that allows you to view OPML outlines as HTML [Ruminations News]
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Frontier Scripting Tutorial. Frontier Scripting Tutorial - Can be applied to scripting in Radio UserLand. This is a print-friendly document. [Ruminations News]
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Building Website Tutorial. Building Website Tutorial - Building websites using Frontier, can be applied to using the staticSites tool in Radio UserLand. This is a print-friendly document. [Ruminations News]
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activeRenderer by Marc Barrot. activeRenderer by Marc Barrot - A Radio/Manila outline renderer. activeRenderer upstreams outlines stored in OPML format to your Radio/Manila public site, translating the outline content to HTML along the way, so that the published version may be read in regular Web browsers. [Ruminations News]
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John Sumser: A dozen things we know about blogs.  [Scripting News]
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Apple offers wireless iBook solution for UN [MacNN]
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Lottery fever sweeps the country
Canada was gripped with lottery fever Friday as thousands of people
parted with hard-earned cash in the hopes of winning a record $34
million.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] '
The odds of winning are estimated at one in 21 million. Detractors say people have a better chance of being struck by lightning several times.
But that didn't deter people from parting with their toonies.'
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Bush defends handling of hijacking warnings
U.S. President George Bush remained under pressure Friday to reveal what
he knew about a possible terrorist threat against the United States
before the Sept. 11 attacks.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] I don't know much about this story but my impression is that the accusations are over the top. That said, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. He's had a free ride since he was elected and most particularly since Sept 11. I'd like nothing more than to see this idiot get dumped.
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Eggleton denies Canadian-Romanian troop swap
The Department of National Defence is denying published reports that
Canadian ground troops may soon be replaced in Afghanistan by Romanian
troops.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] We shouldn't be there anyway. We're peace keepers.
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Bertelsmann saves Napster. For what? [The Register] 'When Napster was underground, it was king. It was community. Now it is just a brand. And very un-rock and roll.'
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Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish Composer and Critic, 90, Dies. Xavier Montsalvatge, a Spanish composer and music critic best known for the lush, Neo-Romantic works he composed in the 1940's and 1950's, died on May 7 in Barcelona. By Allan Kozinn. [New York Times: Arts]
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Living the Music: Brazilians and Americans Exchange Traditions. Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Brazilian Carnivale" offers several concerts and educational events that celebrate the integration of aspects of Brazilian music with aspects of jazz. By Wynton Marsalis. [New York Times: Arts]
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Your Stolen Art? I Threw It Away, Dear. The mother of a French art theft suspect destroyed $1.4 billion in paintings and other art objects, investigators said. By Alan Riding. [New York Times: Arts] 'The police said that Mrs. Breitwieser claimed she destroyed the art out of anger at her son. But they said they believed that her principal motive was to remove all incriminating evidence against her son.'
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