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I love the look of this site. Very clever! Stumbled across it when checking my referrer log. .< 7:16:14 PM  >Miss Liberty strikes back. The courts and even some of his allies have turned against John Ashcroft and his attack on civil rights -- and he has only his own bungling and overreaching to blame. [Salon.com] .< 6:58:54 PM >Real Solace in a Virtual World: Memorials Take Root on the Web. Thousands of memorial Web Sites sprang into existence in the days after Sept. 11 and continue to attract throngs of visitors each month. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology] ' "For the first time in history we have grass-roots, spontaneous records of how people were feeling and how they reacted and what they were saying during this kind of major event," said Tom Scheinfeldt, the site's co-director and a historian at George Mason University. ' .< 6:06:17 PM >World remembers 11 September. People and countries around the globe launch their own events to honour the victims of the terror attacks. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 6:00:58 PM >One Camera, Then Thousands, Indelibly Etching a Day of Loss. IT started with one shot. At 8:46 a.m., Jules Naudet, a rookie filmmaker making a film about a rookie firefighter, was practicing his camera work. He heard a roar overhead and pointed his camera up. Kenneth T. Jackson, the president of the New-York Historical Society, believes that was the only camera that captured American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the north tower. By Sarah Boxer. [New York Times: Arts] "A growing divide separated the raw and the cooked. Kevan Jackson, the vice president for operations and business development at the New-York Historical Society, which became a repository of Sept. 11 videos, photographs and artifacts, said, "What we really want is raw footage." But as time passed, more and more videos were cooked." .< 5:36:56 PM >US threatens world peace, says Mandela. Nelson Mandela condemns US action in the Middle East[cedilla] saying President Bush wants to attack Iraq because of oil and arms sales. [BBC News | WORLD] Good to hear from a man with some moral authority. .< 5:30:28 PM >Newfoundland hosts PM, remembrance services 
A Newfoundland town played host to thousands of people who gathered Wednesday to remember the Sept. 11 attacks and the safe harbour Canadians provided to stranded travellers. [CBC News] "More than 6,500 people and 37 planes were diverted to Gander, a town of 10,000 people." .< 5:28:40 PM >Boston Globe Online / Living | Arts / The buyer's market: notes on collecting recorded music: "Many of the classical record companies are in deep trouble, but in some respects life has seldom been better for the collector." .< 5:23:36 PM >Entertainment Recordings reissued on Glenn Gould's birth date .< 4:41:09 PM >Indianapolis Violin Competition has begun Contest broadcast live on web The cbc.ca page on the first anniversary. .< 2:13:25 AM >Even free, iCal isn’t worth the price. RandomMaccess: “Apple’s newly released iCal is the most beautiful calendaring program I have ever seen. It’s a shame it sucks.” [ranchero.com] Ouch. .< 2:05:06 AM >Apple Launches Software and Announces Printer Deals. Apple signed up several electronics makers to a software standard and launched two programs that will make it easier to connect its computers with cell phones, printers and other devices. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] "Apple currently gives away Rendezvous to electronics makers, and Jobs said Apple was considering making it officially ``open standard,'' meaning the code will be freely available without royalty payments." Apple brings brilliant technology to the industry once again. .< 1:43:32 AM >Switzerland admitted to UN. UN delegates applaud as famously neutral Switzerland finally joins the world body, but there is little sign of public excitement at home. [BBC News | WORLD] |
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