Wednesday, 28 August 2002
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A Midnight Rendezvous With bin Laden. John Miller, a television reporter on the terrorism beat, offers a view of the events that led up to Sept. 11 and American intelligence efforts before it happened. By James Bamford. [New York Times: Arts]
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Opening Western Eyes to a View of Islam. In this anthology of random pieces going back to 1990, Daniel Pipes says that what hit us on Sept. 11 was the product of a relatively recent ideology, Islamism. By David Schoenbaum. [New York Times: Arts]
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Digitally Giving Time and Space the Silly Putty Treatment. The newest effort by the experimental director Michael Snow is a playful parlor trick that depicts the mundanity of office life and the need to escape it. By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Arts]
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'Happy Mac' Killed By Jaguar. The Macintosh operating system's corny but somewhat loveable startup icon appears to be a victim of the latest upgrade. And Apple doesn't want to discuss it. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
I almost forgot. There used to be a Sad Mac and a Dead Mac too. Much better than a blue screen, methinks.
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With "no filmmaking experience whatsoever", MacInTouch reader Josh Rafofsky used iMovie and iDVD in a unique project that literally "changed his life" and also won Bridal Guide magazine's $72,000 "Bride of the Year" [Macintouch]
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Sony Pulls Plug on Betamax VCRs. TOKYO (AP) -- Sony closed the final chapter of its legendary battle with Victor Co. of Japan to dominate the home video machine market, when it announced Tuesday that it would discontinue its Betamax VCRs. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]Wow. I had to double check the date on that one. I didn't realize they were still supporting it. I'm a proud Betamax owner. Never had one of those inferior VHS machines myself.
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Convert currency and other units in Calculator.app [Mac OS X Hints]
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Scroll Finder windows horizontally via the mouse [Mac OS X Hints]'The content will scroll to the left and right while pressing shift and using the wheel! This is very useful in column view!'
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BW: Jaguar is spectacular [The Macintosh News Network]"It's arguably the best OS ever released for personal computers. Fast, stable, elegant, and intuitively easy to use, OS X makes owning a Mac once again a mark of distinction."
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Hackers Rub MP3s in RIAA's Face. The Recording Industry Association of America, fresh from blaming free music downloads as the cause of a drop in CD sales, gets hacked Wednesday morning. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]
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Monthly Archives for Radio Weblogs. New feature: Monthly archives. You can now generate archive pages for your Radio weblog, which display all of the posts for a given month. Check a box, and you're done... [Jake's Radio 'Blog]' Depending on how many posts you make to your weblog and how large each post is, your monthly archive pages could get quite large. Keep your readers in mind -- don't bother enabling this feature if you're a post-10-times-a-day-every-day type of writer.'Cool. Guess I'll use this on a per category basis . . . certainly not for the home page!
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The Jaguar hint flood continues... [Mac OS X Hints]
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IM Notification for Radio's Instant Outliner. New feature: Radio now sends and receives outline-change notifications over AIM and Jabber. This may not seem like a big deal, but it is. Let me explain:... [Jake's Radio 'Blog]Looks very useful for some. I'll wait a bit.
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For today's Jaguar new feature (this one could be 5 or 6 features by itself
but we don't count like that), there's the new Character Palette.
Be prepared to be blown away by something as 'simple' as a palette with glyphs
from your installed fonts. There is a ton of information in the Unicode spec,
and this feature exposes as much of that info as you want.[Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]Follow the link for the details.
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Clan Lit
A whole bunch of Canadian authors were invited to Edinburgh for the city's annual international book festival. LEAH McLAREN investigates why the Scots love our writers, and what our writers do when the readings are done By LEAH MCLAREN
[The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Vancouver named to Olympic short list
The attempt to bring the Winter Olympics to the West Coast in 2010 was
given a boost on Wednesday morning as the Vancouver-Whistler bid made
the short list.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Felt-tip marker hack for copy-protect CDs 'completely neutralized'. Midbar updates technology [The Register]
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Canada preps Internet snoopers charter. Join the crowd [The Register]'Comments on the Canadian DoJ's Lawful Access consultation document can be sent
to la-al@justice.gc.ca by November 15.'Strangely enough The Register has a paragraph on the missing goose story and makes a not-so-enlightened quip about freezers in Canada's north. Perhaps "JP" could set them straight.
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