Friday, 30 August 2002
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Mae West. "Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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Field Trip Into the Deep Blue Sea. Under the Neptune Project, 3,000 miles of fiber optics will connect school children with activity on the ocean floor. The undertaking could spawn lots of aspiring Jacques -- and Jacqueline -- Cousteaus. By Robin Clewley. [Wired News]
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Use rotating iPhoto pictures for desktop images [Mac OS X Hints]
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WirelessWeek.com: APPLE'S 'SMART' GENERATION TARGETS EUROPEAN ENTRY "Steve Jobs, chief executive of Apple, and his former partner, Steve Wozniak, are said to be developing a "smart" phone in an attempt to kick-start the market for next-generation mobile phones in the same way that the company's computers popularised personal computing."
I love this story! Hope it's true.
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Eudora Mailbox Cleaner: "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner is a simple drag'n'drop application which provides easy one-step migration from Eudora to Mail.app, directly importing Eudora's mailboxes and filter files and preparing nickname files for import into Address Book"Hmmm. I may need this soon.
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Baseball players, owners strike a deal
It appears hundreds of millionaires have settled their differences and
settled a contract dispute that would have closed major league baseball
parks in North America.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Canadian economic growth continues at brisk pace
Canada's gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 4.3 per
cent in the second quarter -- down from the blistering 6.2 per cent
seen in the first quarter -- but much stronger than the 1.1 per cent
rate recorded in Q2 in the United States.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Ontario may have Canada's first human West Nile cases
Health officials say they have found three probable cases of the West
Nile virus in Ontario residents.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]In the suburbs of Toronto. Yikes. A little too close for comfort.
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According to News.Com, Apple Computer said it "plans by next month to release to the open-source community the technology it calls Rendezvous, which allows networked devices to automatically find each other." [Scripting News]
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Goodmorning from Amsterdam!
Last night Patricia and I watched a self-made documentary Mick Jagger did about himself, friends and family during the post-production period of his movie Enigma. It was completely shot on DV. Good editing, but no special effects, which leads me to believe that it was probably edited on a Media100, or perhaps even in Final Cut Pro.
It definitely inspired me to think about this form of documentary. I'm confident the docu wouldn't have felt as intimate had there been a full camera crew running around all the time. Most impotant part is definitely sound. Mick was wearing a wireless microphone, which deminishes the 'amateur' vibe of the pro-sumer handheld to almost professional proportions. Having Mick man the cam himself throws you yet into another dimension alltogether. It was definitely a "yeah, I can do that" moment :) [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Right on.
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Panorama and Pointillism on 9/11. Richard Bernstein, a reporter for The Times, has produced a synthesis of news coverage related to Sept. 11 by his Times colleagues. By Mike Wallace. [New York Times: Arts]
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On a Hijacked Airliner, Moments of Moral Clarity. Jere Longman, a reporter for The Times, has written a clear and forceful book about the men and women on Flight 93 who helped foil the hijackers. By Vince Passaro. [New York Times: Arts]
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Boys Will Be Girls in Pure Shakespeare. The Globe Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" features Elizabethan costumes, music and props, not to mention the period convention of an all-male cast. By Ben Brantley. [New York Times: Arts]
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Total Digital Photography. Total Digital Photography is a new magazine from the makers of Photography Monthly, Professional Photographer and Which Camera. The magazine is written by an established editorial team based here in London.... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]
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M-Audio Ships Quattro 24/96 for Mac
M-Audio has shipped its new USB AudioSport Quattro 24/96 for the Macintosh. The Quattro 24/96 is a 24-bit, 96 kHz audio interface that also includes a built-in MIDI interface. It's available now for $349.95.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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Quality Films Brush Away the Fluff. The summer is supposed to be the silly season for movies, isn't it? But this year, artistically ambitious movies are surprisingly abundant amid the junk food. By Stephen Holden. [New York Times: Arts] 'Utterly gripping and occupying a cinematic world all its own is Zacharias Kunuk's film "The Fast Runner" ("Atanarjuat"), an Inuit movie based on a legend and set at the dawn of the first millennium in what is now the Canadian Arctic.'
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Death becomes them , Norman Lebrecht, 8/29/2002 [La Scena Musicale - News]Another excellent article from Lebrecht. Here are a couple of quotes: "When we commemorate the Presley and Callas anniversaries we confirm a catastrophic failure of cultural renewal.Say what you like about Elvis and Maria, when they got on stage or in front of a microphone in their heyday-they gave their last drop of vital fluids.The failure to create a legend for later times rests mainly with the music business, which changed since 1977 from a nurturing cottage industry to a corporate controltower."
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