One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  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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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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Cool. Guess I'll use this on a per category basis . . . certainly not for the home page!

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[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.