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 Thursday, 22 August 2002
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SJ Merc interviews Janis Ian. "She credits Napster and its progeny with sparking renewed interest in her music, at a time when she can't be heard on contemporary-hit-obsessed radio stations. And she says her decision to offer free music downloads had done the opposite of what the industry predicts it would do: It caused a 300 percent spike in merchandise sales."  [Scripting News]
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Big-media Axis of Evil on the march. RIAA assaults on several fronts [The Register]
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MSN cuddles up to OS X. Snaring newbies [The Register]
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Dude, Where's My Pain?. Marijuana-derived drugs could be powerful painkillers, but experts say research is just starting to reach critical mass. Randy Dotinga reports from the World Pain Congress in San Diego. [Wired News]
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Gramophone Awards 2002 short list announced!
Six best recordings in each category named
[Gramophone - News]
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First we take Manhattan
They may have to sneak across the border to get there, but for some Canadian actors, New York's International Fringe Festival is a chance to shine in the world's theatre capital, SIMON HOUPT writes
FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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The film fest that offers the world
By MATTHEW HAYS
MONTREAL -- The 26th annual World Film Festival begins unreeling tonight, and if the organizers are to be believed, it's the biggest publicly attended A-category competitive film festival in the Western hemisphere. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Wireless Web Comes to Starbucks Shops. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As if the caffeine wasn't enough to get customers going, Starbucks Corp. (SBUX.O) on Wednesday launched coffee drinkers into cyberspace with high-speed wireless Internet access at some 1,200 cafes. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology]
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Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed. The Mac operating system called version 10.2 (and nicknamed "jaguar") arrives this week. Is it a quantum leap for Apple? By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]'This is a polished, innovative and - if such a term can be applied to something as nerdy as an operating system - exciting upgrade. Mac OS X 10.2 is the best-looking, least-intrusive and most thoughtfully designed operating system walking the earth today.'
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Switcher's remorse. An Episcopal priest goes from Windows to Mac but then has second thoughts. Is her computing soul at risk? [Salon.com]
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Branford Marsalis starts a new record label. "We guarantee that we will give artists the freedom to make great music." [Scripting News] "The consolidation of the record industry into major conglomerates has turned the business into a mega-hit pop music machine with a very short term focus. Artists who want to be musicians, not marketing creations, have very few places to record anymore," Branford notes.It's not just that. Record labels used to be run by people who cared first about the music. Now all they care about is 'did it ship 5 million units in it's first week?' All the best to Marsalis Music.
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John Patrick: "Stopping for a bite to eat in a small New England town, was I ever surprised to find a Wi-Fi connection available at 1.2 megabits per second. Where was this bandwidth coming from? No idea. Who was paying for this bandwidth? Same answer." [Scripting News]
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Water and Woe for the Czechs' Cultural Gems. Raging floods that tore through the Czech Republic last week caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to the country's cultural fabric. By Peter S. Green. [New York Times: Arts]
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Negotiations Are Under Way for Clinton Talk Show on CBS. Associates of Bill Clinton and executives from CBS are involved in negotiations to make the former president the host of a daily afternoon talk show. By Bill Carter and David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Arts]Good grief. What has happened to that country? What next? Dubya as a game show host?
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Paolo is leading a project to share bookmarks. [Scripting News]
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XHTML 2.0 Drafted. New language specs can be both a blessing and a curse for Web developers. While new, easier to use elements provide the blessings, the removal of elements you already know can be a curse. Find out what the next XHTML version has in store in this quick overview. By Michael Classen. 0821 [WebReference News]
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Final tally: 344 movies Michelle Pfeiffer, John Cusack and Sophia Loren are among the stars expected for next month's bash, writes LIAM LACEY
By LIAM LACEY
TORONTO -- From shameless stargazers to hardcore cineastes, there's plenty of choice at this year's 27th Toronto International Film Festival.From Sophia Loren to Michelle Pfeiffer, from Adam Sandler to John Cusack (along with occasional names from the past such as Suzanne Pleshette and Tim Curry), a long A-list from Hollywood and European cinema was rhymed off as an addendum to an even longer lineup of films, more than half of which are not in English, and come from around the globe. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Insert text files into documents via drag and drop [Mac OS X Hints]
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Change IE's JPEG picture handling preferences [Mac OS X Hints]
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The Art of Listening, to Lake Waters and to John Cage. The Lucerne Festival is unusual among music festivals in its devotion to the art of listening, its abstention from opera or other kinds of musical theater. By Paul Griffiths. [New York Times: Arts]
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Apple posts Security Update 2002-08-20 [The Macintosh News Network]
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