One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 3 September 2002

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Judge Cues Napster's Death Music. A federal bankruptcy court rules that German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG can't complete its purchase of Napster. The company's assets are likely to be sold off to pay its debts. [Wired News]

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Chrétien promises 10 new national parks
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien says the federal government will create 10 new national parks and five marine conservation areas. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Imaginary infants as beacons of hope. Once again, Americans have conjured a baby boom out of a national tragedy. What better way to create a happy ending? [Salon.com] 'But this baby boom, as healing and heartwarming as it may seem, doesn't appear to exist.'

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Adrian Holovaty did some digging and found 15 more BBC feeds. Not sure if we're supposed to know about these.   [Scripting News]

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Mobiles guess that song. Mobile phone users can now use a service that recognises part of a tune and identifies it from a database of 1.6 million songs. [BBC News | MUSIC]

Now that's cool use of technology.

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More specifically it compresses the quartz pdf files created in OS X.

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Wow. First the New York Times. Now the Beeb. Not too shabby! Congratulations Dave.

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Screen Capture has also been improved big time in Jaguar. [Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]

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AES

Events Are Special

New York City (September 3, 2002)--An up-to-the-minute list of the Special

Events slated to take place at the 113th AES Convention at the Los Angeles

Convention Center from October 5-8, 2002. For updates, check the AES website.

[ProSound News]

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Enable user interface sound effects [Mac OS X Hints]

I had to turn these off in OS 9 as they made my machine unstable. I assume OS X is much more capable when dealing with this kind of thing.

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