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 Tuesday, 27 August 2002
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Summit agrees deal to save fish. World latest: A plan to restore the world's heavily depleted fish stocks is the first major breakthrough at the World Summit. [Guardian Unlimited]'The problem of saving fish stocks has become increasingly urgent as fleets with sophisticated equipment from Japan and the EU sail the world making short work of once productive fisheries - having a devastating impact on many of the world's poorest people, who rely on coastal fisheries for their main source of protein.'
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Another iChat feature for tonight. iChat allows peer-to-peer file transfers - by far the easiest way to send a file from a one computer to another. Just drag and drop any document from the Finder to an online user on your buddy list and voila (can you tell I'm getting ready for Apple Expo Paris ). [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]This sounds useful.
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Music industry blames Net for all evil. 'We've done everything right...' [The Register]What a bunch of whiners.l
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Propaganda barking up the wrong tree
By JOHN MACLACHLAN GRAY
-- Seldom has the function of the media as a conduit for propaganda become so evident as with the footage, obtained by CNN and reproduced by virtually every newspaper in North America, of a dog put to death in an Iraqi experiment involving poison gas. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Sony Memory Stick up to 4 GB capacity. Thanks to an anonymous contributor who noted that Sony's own memorystick.org website has a road map showing images of new Memory Stick (Magic Gate) in capacities of 256 MB, 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB and 4GB. According... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] Two to three years away. Wow.
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News.Com: Why telecoms back the pirate cause. Q&A with Sarah Deutsch, VP and associate general counsel at Verizon. The whole legislative attack came as a complete surprise to Verizon, because we had thought we had a long-term deal with the copyright community after spending three years negotiating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That was supposed to be the end of the war. [Tomalak's Realm]
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Hewlett-Packard Drops Microsoft Word in Favor of WordPerfect. Microsoft suffered a blow to its most important business when Hewlett-Packard selected a rival software package for its consumer PCs. By Scott Morrison and Paul Abrahams in San Francisco. [New York Times: Technology]I think I just saw a pig fly by.
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BuisnessWeek Online looks at Apple in report [The Macintosh News Network]
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The Jagwyre Review. Rumbles in the Jungle [The Register]'I've been recommending users from two ends of the spectrum to examine OS X: computer phobes who want functionality without fuss - and the UNIX literate or the UNIX curious.'Yes! Gosh, it's fun being a Macophile user these days. The review says that the speed bump everyone is hollering about isn't nearly as great as he'd hoped. Not a wide-eyed review of Apple's latest OS.
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Saint John jeweller calls for highway moose detectors
A jeweller in Saint John, N.B., wants to help reduce the number of
people killed on the province's highways. He's started a drive to raise
money for a high-tech moose detection system.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]I love this country!
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Man missing after World Trade Center attacks found in hospital
A man who was reported missing after the World Trade Center attacks last
Sept. 11 has been found in a New York hospital.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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The latest NACO disc is finished![Canuck]
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Joe's caribou meat came back from the deli yesterday, all cut, wrapped, and in some cases ground or made into sausage sticks. [Janet Patterson's Radio Weblog]Another Canuck gets a blog. Welcome JP!
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Don Park has a weblog. Don and I worked together in the late 80s. I don't remember how we met, but I asked him if he could hack IPC into the pre-System 7 Mac OS, and he said yes, and did it. I put an API on top of it, wrote some docs and sample apps, and thus was born UserLand IAC Toolkit, an ancient forerunner to Apple Events, XML-RPC and SOAP.  [Scripting News]Ancient? How about way ahead of it's time!?
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John Robb: "I really didn't expect weblogs to change the way I met with people. This was a surprise." [Scripting News]
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US court rules against secret deportation hearings. World latest: Federal appeals court says Bush administration's attempts to hold secret deportation hearings of suspected terrorists undermines democracy. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Zoom in on your display to show detail [Mac OS X Hints]
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RIAA: Feeling Burn of Ripped CDs. Recording industry executives have bemoaned the negative impact of new technology on profits since the Sony Walkman's arrival in 1979. Despite ups and downs, the music business isn't dead yet. By Brad King. [Wired News]
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Use small icons in toolbars [Mac OS X Hints]
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Mozilla 1.1 supports MathML, Quartz [The Macintosh News Network]My browser of choice.
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News.Com: "More than 100,000 copies of Apple Computer's OS X 10.2 operating system were sold worldwide during its first weekend, the company said." [Scripting News]Yes!
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The Branding of Apple: Apple's Intangible Asset (26-Aug-2002; 9.9K) [TidBITS]
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Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Unleashed (26-Aug-2002; 1.3K) [TidBITS]
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Gateway slams iMac with ad [The Macintosh News Network]A PC manufacturer feeling defensive about Macs!? Cool.
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Al-Marabh says he was beaten by U.S. guards
Nabil al-Marabh says he's an innocent man who has been mistreated during
the past 11 months while being held in a U.S. jail as a suspected
terrorist.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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Liberals surge in latest poll
It's been a long time since any politician in Canada has been as
popular as Liberal Paul Martin is right now, according to a new poll
done for CBC News.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
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