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Sennheiser to Co-Sponsor AES 5.1 Seminar Cool. And in version 2 they'll be able to go in the other direction . . . AIFF to RADAR. $750 US.Check out the article which has more background info and a link to DAMSEL's website. .< 2:37:16 PM  >New York remembers September 11 City resounds to musical tributes [Gramophone - News] .< 2:34:09 PM >Interview with Cocoa Guru Andrew Stone. iDevGames interviews Andrew Stone of Stone Design: “HyperCard was the precursor to the Internet—the idea that mere mortals could make cool software was very appealing. Now that Apple has Interface Builder and provides the entire IDE for making Cocoa applications, perhaps we’ll see several replacement applications.” [ranchero.com] .< 2:32:20 PM >Technology Review: Data Extinction. Both are faced with the knowledge that current methods for preserving digital things work poorly, even in the short term. Just how bad is the problem? Examples of digital things lost forever abound, some personal in scale, some global. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 2:31:51 PM >P2P swamps broadband networks. Cap doesn't fit... [The Register] .< 2:24:43 PM >Levi's trousers protect your testicles. No flies on them [The Register] .< 2:19:12 PM >Bush issues ultimatum to Iraq. The US president tells the UN that "action is unavoidable" unless Saddam Hussein destroys all weapons of mass destruction. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 2:16:59 PM >Mac Heads Immortalized in Pixels. A new service called Iconize Me brings portraiture to the digital masses by creating computer icons from users' likenesses. Well, Mac users, anyway. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] Includes a link to DVD Graphics which hosts a number of wonderful icons and desktops. .< 2:15:06 PM >Hurricane Gustav blasts Maritimes 
Hurricane Gustav hit Canada's East Coast Thursday morning, causing minor flooding in coastal areas and power outages. [CBC News] .< 2:05:08 PM >Immigration deal with U.S. bad for Canada, say critics
In what critics call a secret side deal and dangerous precedent, Canada has agreed to take up to 200 people a year from U.S. jails or detention centres. [CBC News] .< 1:58:12 PM >Update: Background Image Links. A light and tasteful background graphic may be just the touch you need to spice up your next project. Our updated collection of background graphic links is your gateway to thousands of downloadable borders, tiles, and textures specifically for use on Web pages. 0912 [WebReference News] A HUGE collection. .< 11:15:17 AM >Last year on this day, we began to pick up the pieces, to figure out what had happened, and see what it meant to each of us. Thoughts from one year later are here. Over the next few days I will link back one year on the same day, allowing those who want to, to retrace the steps after 9-11-01. I plan to make time every day to review it, to click on the links, to re-experience the enormous growth, through the medium I love, the World Wide Web.  [Scripting News]Yup. This is the medium. .< 11:12:53 AM > Last year yesterday, Scripting News covered the events of the day. I recommend reading from the bottom up. The day began as any day on SN begins. A few nerdy links. Then I got an email from Bill Seitz. A plane just crashed into the WTC. A link to the Empire State Building webcam. Another plane crash. What?? More emails. Pictures. Confusion. One of the towers collapses. Comments from all over the world. Pictures live from the scene. A day when everyone was involved, no one was ambivalent. [Scripting News].< 11:07:43 AM >Add Canadian holidays to iCal [Mac OS X Hints] .< 11:05:46 AM >Chrétien says Western world 'arrogant ... greedy' Prime Minister Jean Chrétien told CBC-TV in an interview Tuesday night that the United States must accept some responsibility for the terror attacks of last September. [CBC News] Merci, Jean. .< 10:51:04 AM >Bush's war talk ends 'peace dividend'
The fear of more terror attacks and a looming war on Iraq could deliver severe economic consequences, say some Wall Street analysts. [CBC News] And why aren't I reading any stories about the cost to American tax payers? .< 12:38:04 AM >Modified iCal AppleScripts enable Eudora support [Mac OS X Hints] .< 12:33:14 AM >Maxtor preps 320GB HDD. Big is Beautiful [The Register] "Maxtor is touting the line at OEMs as an alternative to tape and optical drives. Certainly, prices are attractive, ranging from $299.95 to $399.95. Also, eh MaXLine HDDs have much faster seek times, enabling instant recall for archived apps which "may need to be recovered on demand," Maxtor says. Volume shipments begin in Q1, 2003." |
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