Sunday, 9 June 2002
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Inside Jaguar: A visual look at Sherlock 3 and Ink. Think Secret continues its reports (with screen shots) on Jaguar, the next major update to OS X. [ranchero.com]
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XTC: Adventurous Punk of a Troubled Past. In a new boxed set, the British band XTC issues a reminder of how smart and influential it was. By Barry Singer. [New York Times: Arts]
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A New 'Cut' of 'Cinema Paradiso' Only Deepens the Nostalgia. With 48 minutes and a lost girl restored, "Cinema Paradiso," Giuseppe Tornatore's sentimental epic from 1989, is truer to its spirit of a past reclaimed. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Arts]
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Children's TV Catches Up With How Kids Watch. The assumption that very young children can't sit still to watch long narrative stretches on TV has been proven wrong. By Julie Salamon. [New York Times: Arts]
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Surround Professional Item of the Day
Toshiba Launches Innovative DVD Players
Wayne, NJ (June 10, 2002)--Toshiba has introduced two DVD products that
help push the format further--a DVD-Video recorder with a built-in 80 GB
hard drive and a portable DVD-Video/Audio player with built-in widescreen
LCD. [ProSound News]
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Two Euphonix Consoles Ordered by Deluxe
Palo Alto, CA (June 10, 2002)--Deluxe Laboratories in Toronto has ordered
two Euphonix System 5-P consoles for its TV post-production rooms. With
the addition of these two identical consoles, Deluxe will have five System 5
consoles at its Toronto studio location.
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Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare. Jeff Cheney: "After a 17-year legal battle, The Chronicle obtained records that show how a sweeping campaign destroyed UC President Clark Kerr's career and helped vault actor Ronald Reagan into power." [Jake's Radio 'Blog]
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Apple launches new OS X promo [The Macintosh News Network]
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Will David Frasca be the FBI fall guy for 9/11?. Director Mueller mostly won over Congress this week. But in mapping the missed signals before the terror attacks, most roads lead to counterterror chief Frasca -- and at least one senator is miffed. [Salon.com]
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Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 4. This fourth installment features Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell discussing and reading Sitwell's poems, as well as various authors reading drafts of Thomas' "Over Sir John's Hill." [Salon.com]
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Sharon's insecurity, Bush's indecision. As an anxious Israeli prime minister flies to Washington to make sure he has U.S. support, Bush is still wavering and stalling for time -- and Arafat's ouster seems closer than ever.
[Salon.com]
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Dr. Donald Norman Joins Sonic Advisory Board
NOVATO, Calif., Jun. 05, 2002
-- Sonic Solutions announced today that Dr. Donald Norman, one of the world's leading authorities on product usability and user interface design, has been appointed to its advisory board.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare?. A new white paper claiming open-source software is inherently not secure is causing skeptics to wonder whether Microsoft helped pay for the study. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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News.Com interviews Apple CEO Steve Jobs. [Scripting News]
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