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It certainly has been a bizarre 'spring' so far. The middle of June and I'm still in long pants. .< 11:16:40 PM  >Founders, CEO Regain Control of Audio Precision Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 11:14:50 PM >Mac Net Journal: Can ThinkFree woo OS X users?. "ThinkFree will appeal to people like me, who tend not to trust or want much to do with Microsoft products but who need to be able to work with the rest of the world that has bought into the Microsoft product line." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] I hope so. My experience was so so. It was great to be able to open MS Office files but it sometimes opened files with warnings about layout changes. And since it's a java app and does not directly access many of the advantages of OS X (eg, Print to pdf). A great start, but not there yet. .< 8:05:08 PM >Playing God. Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? [Salon.com] .< 8:02:26 PM >Every dial you take. The FBI is asking for more information about what you do on the phone, and no one is saying no. [Salon.com] .< 8:00:49 PM >Ontario opens door to some private health care 
Ontario's Tory government says that it will allow private MRI and CAT scan clinics to set up shop, and that it's also considering private day surgery facilities. [CBC News] Very bad news. .< 7:59:53 PM >CanWest 'very stupid' to fire Citizen publisher
Politicians and journalists say the firing of Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills has raised serious questions about freedom of the press and media concentration. [CBC News]'During its licence renewal hearings before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission last summer the company promised that journalistic independence would be maintained in its newsrooms across the country.' Time to pull the plug on Izzy the idiot. .< 7:56:20 PM >Apple Says Earnings Will Fall Short. Apple Computer warned that earnings for the current quarter would fall short of its earlier guidance. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 5:47:52 PM >SparkLE and SparkLE Plus Version 2.5 Downloads Available Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 5:44:27 PM >Sex Tips for Geeks is climbing the dayPop Chart. Please see the paragraph about hair, especially long hair is a 'chick magnet'. swoosh! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Yikes. .< 5:40:55 PM >The headlines all weekend on Fox News (We steal it from satellite in Belgium) are about the Golf course prostitution bust. Coverage included helicopter footage of the 'sex-tents'. Geez, what's the problem?! If you put up a Club Med sign it would be ok. Silly yanks, always arresting people for having paid-for sex. Isn't there a war on terror to fight somewhere? [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] I love it that someone so famous in the US is sitting in Europe, poking a finger in the American's eyes. .< 5:37:59 PM >U.S. Soccer needs you now.The US soccer team has not been this far in the World Cup since 1930. Where is the sea of red, white and blue? Watching mundane sports...like baseball. [MetaFilter] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 5:34:15 PM >John Robb: "Here's an update on Dave. He just gave me a call. He sounds great. Very upbeat. He was overwhelmed by the wonderful outpouring of support for his recovery. I expect that he will be back online this weekend." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] .< 5:22:38 PM >CBC Sports: Arrivederci, Italia'South Korea pulled off one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history on Tuesday, stunning Italy 2-1 in extra time with a dramatic golden goal in the 117th minute.' Wow. The Korean community in Toronto is centered about a block south of where I live. The young Koreans are driving up and down the street honking horns and waving flags. Their elders stand and watch with broad smiles on their faces. .< 2:12:28 PM >Apple's Knowledge Base Article 106796 covers a variety of Mac OS X network troubleshooting topics: I. Internet Connection and Troubleshooting[Macintouch] .< 1:40:34 PM >Essential Blogging book. Cory Doctorow: "The O'Reily catalog page is up for 'Essential Blogging: Selecting and Using Weblog Tools', which is the blog-book I contributed to, along with Rael 'Blosxom' Dornfest, J. Scott 'Radio' Johnson, Shelley 'Burning Bird' Powers, and Mena and Ben 'Movable Type' Trott." [Jake's Radio 'Blog] .< 1:37:09 PM >Morons.org: Graduating students threatened with arrest for silently protesting Bush's grad speech. [via Boing Boing Blog] [Jake's Radio 'Blog] I thought this was a joke but apparently not. .< 1:18:10 PM >Restoring the imperial presidency. The Bush administration rivals the Nixon White House when it comes to secrecy and unchecked power, with John Ashcroft as our modern-day John Mitchell. [Salon.com] .< 1:17:29 PM >"Unmasking Deep Throat". John Dean, on a decades-long quest to identify history's most elusive news source, brings new evidence to the fore in his new book. [Salon.com] .< 1:14:43 PM >Economists Push for Microsoft Penalties. A group of six leading antitrust economists has filed a last-minute brief urging the federal judge presiding over the Microsoft case to impose tough penalties on the company. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:13:22 PM >Disney Shifting to Linux for Film Animation. The Walt Disney Company, the doyen of animation studios, is joining Hollywood's embrace of a technological upstart [~] the GNU Linux operating system. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology] Ouch. Surely this was a market Jobs wanted. He's gotta be pissed to read this given his other little company's (Pixar) connection with Disney. .< 1:09:48 PM >Avoiding Trouble in the Move to Mac OS X, Part 2 (17-Jun-2002; 14.3K) [TidBITS] .< 1:05:27 PM >SparkME: advanced audio editing for consumer [The Macintosh News Network] .< 1:02:50 PM >Exabyte begins VXA-2 tape backup shipments [The Macintosh News Network] We're using the original VXA here to back up RADAR and (soon) Sonic HD and so far so good. Turns out only select partners are getting units now. The rest of us will have to wait until September. .< 12:58:05 PM >ADQ here to stay, says leader Mario Dumont 
The leader of an upstart third party in Quebec says Monday's byelection results prove there are now three legitimate political parties in the province. [CBC News] Exciting times in Qubec politics. I didn't even know there were by-elections taking place. It wasn't news in ROC until the PQ got kicked in the butt. .< 12:56:26 PM >The reel Watergate. "All the President's Men" caught the moment in which America got wise to White House corruption -- but the more recent "Dick" captures the sheer exhilaration of unseating a president. [Salon.com] Vietnam. Watergate. Why did I grow up with a negative view of the US? .< 11:43:25 AM >Kit 1.1.6. Kit 1.1.6 is out. It adds a Radio to the Past form bit to the weblog post page, and incorporates a couple minor minor fixes I'm going to let the Kit page claim I released as 1.1.5. [Mark Paschal: Kit].< 11:38:54 AM >Border security questioned in wake of Ont. murders Ontario police are investigating how a Milwaukee man was able to enter Canada carrying a gun which he later used to kill his former fiancée and her family. [CBC News] How do we defend our borders from gun-toting Americans? The irony would be delicious if it weren't attached to a tragic story. .< 11:36:40 AM >Global Digital Photo Network Sought. Photo industry rivals are teaming up on an initiative to establish what they hope will become the ATM-equivalent of a global digital photo printing network. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] .< 11:32:28 AM >Citizen publisher fired after critical coverage of PM
The publisher of the Ottawa Citizen says he was fired after the newspaper ran articles criticizing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, raising fears about freedom of the press. [CBC News] Izzy Asper is not a good man. .< 11:31:02 AM >News.Com: The little engine that could beat Google. AlltheWeb, run by Fast Search & Transfer, said Monday that it now searches 2.1 billion pages versus Google's 2.07 billion. AlltheWeb has attracted a cult following among researchers seeking hard-to-find results. However, the number of pages in an index is only one indicator of a search engine's power. [Tomalak's Realm] |
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