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The study also said Mac users tend to be more Web savvy, with more than half having been online for at least five years. And the Mac faithful are 58 percent more likely than the overall online population to build their own Web page and also slightly more likely to buy goods online, according to the report." :-] .< 1:18:33 AM  >Dorle Jarmel Soria, 101, Writer and a Founder of Angel Records, Dies. Dorle Jarmel Soria was a co-founder of Angel Records in the course of her long and varied career in the classical music business. By Anne Midgette. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:17:55 AM >YOUR TIME IS UP MICHAEL JACKSON A weekly look at people, things or obnoxious phrases that are ready to be put out to pasture -- We won't mention the wide-ranging surgery, the marriages, the relatives, the terrible fashion choices nor the charges of pedophilia.But one would think that's nothing's really shocking Michael Jackson could do any more. That is until Michael, in cahoots with the Rev. Al Sharpton and O. J. lawyer Johnnie Cochran, declared war on his record company, Sony, and chairman Tommy Mottola for ''failing to promote Invincible [Jackson's last album] properly,'' even though Sony says it spent $25-million on it. Michael has called Mottola, ''a racist and very, very, very devilish.'' FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] A predictable story. Try this one instead. .< 12:46:04 AM >Apple also released iDVD 2.0.5 Update, which, it says, includes enhancements to the burning process, more accurate progress reporting and error notifications, and corrects a situation where some files would mistakenly be identified as iDVD 2 documents.[Macintouch] .< 12:41:50 AM >Canadian ambassador attacks ICC exemption for U.S. 
The Canadian ambassador to the United Nations has accused the UN Security Council of exceeding its powers by agreeing to exempt American peacekeepers from prosecution for any war crimes. [CBC News] Excellent news. What a travesty. I'm so pleased to hear that Canada is standing up to the yanks. .< 12:26:49 AM >Apple Security Update 7-12-02 fixes flaw [The Macintosh News Network] .< 12:23:35 AM >Newcomer Aims to Break Mobile Speed Barrier. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A technology with a tongue-twisting name may one day turn the wireless industry on its ear, offering the potential of speeds 10 times faster than standards that mobile companies around the world are adopting. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:20:18 AM >Capitalists without a clue. Once all-seeing captains of industry, America's CEOs are now playing the Sgt. Schultz dumbo card, braying "I know no-thing, no-thing!" [Salon.com] .< 12:19:44 AM >Winnipeg widens mosquito campaign after West Nile scare 
Some people in Manitoba's capital city are furious that the province has expanded a chemical spraying campaign against mosquitoes. [CBC News] .< 12:15:28 AM >Famed photographer Karsh dies
Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer whose camera captured many of the most influential figures of the 20th century, died Saturday. He was 93. [CBC News] 'The long list of names included Trudeau, Churchill, Kennedy, Kruschev, Castro, Shaw, Hemingway, and Einstein.' .< 12:08:17 AM >EyeTV turns an OS X machine into a PVR. Jim Heid digs into the capabilities of the about-to-be-released EyeTV, a $199 gadget that attaches to any Mac running OS X through a USB port and turns your Mac into a TV viewing and program recording device, much like a TiVo. Interesting...read about it in EyeTV Review on the Macintosh Digital Hub site... [Macintosh News] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Oh man. This is cool enough to make me want to watch tv! A USB port?! Too cool. If you really need to keep the show, dump it to CD (big enough to hold 60 minutes). And CDs are much cheaper than video tape. Of course I've probably taped 8 hours of tv in the past 10 years. |
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