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Cool. There's a picture of some Toronto users taken just outside the CBC building where I work. .< 11:41:35 PM  >Semantic Studios: Ambient Findability. I want to be able to find anything, anywhere, anytime. What's surprising is how close we are to making this impossibly strange dream a reality. Ambient interfaces, sensors and small tech are about to intertwingle the physical and virtual worlds in shocking ways that will make history of the Diamond Age. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 11:40:04 PM >German cell at heart of Sept. 11 attack: prosecutor 
An al-Qaeda member talked about attacking the World Trade Center in early 2000, more than a year before the Sept. 11 attack killed about 3,000 people, a German prosecutor said Thursday. [CBC News] .< 11:32:16 PM >A cool cowpoke gets political. Steve Earle, a new disc under his belt, talks about his tumultuous career -- a hair-raising ride that has included many wives, an ugly romance with heroin, and watching a man die. [Salon.com] .< 11:45:37 AM >Egoyan gets reel The director's art installation features real people unwinding about their '60s-era tape machines and what they recorded on them 
By JOANNE LATIMER Meanwhile another Egoyan is in Venice doing a sound installation. .< 1:19:04 AM >NY Times: "The iMac, a graceful piece of art whose astonishingly thin screen floats in air on a gleaming chrome elbow, sells well enough. But whenever a Windows PC maker tries something similar, buyers stay away in droves."  [Scripting News].< 1:07:42 AM >Earth Summit wants to know if Canada will sign Kyoto
Interest is growing in South Africa over a speech that will be delivered by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien next week: will he or won't he announce that Canada will ratify the Kyoto accord? [CBC News] .< 1:00:53 AM >St-r-r-i-k-e? If It Happens, Fans Can Keep Their Eyes on the Ball. BaseballLibrary.com is a hulking colossus of online baseball arcana, a blog-and-encyclopedia hybrid that can serve up ample portions of the most obscure baseball history. By Marc Weingarden. [New York Times: Technology] Pretty cool. And they're hip enough to send a hearty welcome to bloggers. I like this: today's 'flashback' is 'Baseball Crosses the Border', and of course it's about the Expos arriving in Montréal. .< 12:54:32 AM >More Tech Toys for Digital Music Fans. The first DataPlay player on the market is the iRiver iDP-100, made by iRiver America in San Jose, Calif. Costing $350, it resembles a frozen hamburger sandwiched between two sheets of iMac-like plastic. By Michel Marriott. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:51:04 AM >WordPerfect Gets New Life in Deal with 2 PC Makers. Just as WordPerfect, the once-popular word processing software, was at risk of slipping from the computer world's consciousness, it is set to appear on millions of new screens. By Bernard Simon. [New York Times: Technology] |
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