Wednesday, 25 September 2002
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Opera 6.0 beta praises sung. MacWorld: “Tabbed browsing mode makes its first appearance in this release allowing for multiple windows to be opened within the Opera browser.” Me, I use tabbed browsing with Chimera. I love tabbed browsing. It’s the best thing to happen to browsers since support for graphics. [ranchero.com]
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Ukraine faces 'Iraq radar sales' claim. Ukraine comes under increasing pressure to explain allegations it broke UN sanctions on Iraq by supplying sophisticated radar equipment. [BBC News | WORLD]
I guess the Americans will just have to bomb them. (sarcasm)
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Photo to Movie 1.06 creates QT, DV files [The Macintosh News Network]
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Apple open-sources Rendezvous technology [The Macintosh News Network]
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Apple releases Darwin 6.01 for PPC, x86 [The Macintosh News Network]
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Some day, they'll call this the Golden Age
By JAMES ADAMS
-- For Canadian writers, these truly are the good old days.Yesterday's announcement that three of the six finalists for the Booker Prize are Canadian was just the latest instalment in the stunning apotheosis of Canadian writing that has occurred in the past two decades. For some, all that's needed now is a Nobel victory to put the country inarguably in the pantheon of the world's great literatures. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Still playing solo Pianist Glenn Gould endures as a figure of legend, but in terms of the current life of the art, he's a leader without followers, writes ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN [The Globe and Mail: Arts] I didn't make it through this article. Read the last couple of paragraphs and it looked just a little too self-congratulatory for me.
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Plato. "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]He was thinking of weblogs.
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AI's CWoB: YellowText: "The process of writing is not without its challenges, of course. This afternoon, it was going so well that the only thing stopping me from throwing myself out the window to a messy end ten stories below was the knowledge that I'd have to stop partway down and dig an eight-story hole in the yard under my office window...which seems like an awful lot of trouble just to get out of writing a closing paragraph."Andy's brilliant.
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Onkyo Debuts DVD-Audio, SACD Universal Player
Upper Saddle River, NJ (September 25, 2002)--Onkyo has introduced the
DV-SP800 universal player that decodes SACD (Super Audio Compact Discs),
DVD-Audio discs, and MP3 CDs in addition to conventional DVDs and CDs. [ProSound News]1 US kilobuck
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AES Goes to School
Los Angeles (September 25, 2002)--The 113th AES Convention, taking place
at the L.A. Convention Center from October 5-8, will provide student members
around the world with an opportunity to meet and share experiences related
to education in the field of audio. [ProSound News]
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Gore blasts Bush's war plans. The former vice president takes the gloves off, saying Bush has squandered the world's goodwill, is failing to focus on the war on terrorism and could be creating a global "reign of fear." [Salon.com]Bingo. Here's hoping we get some debate now.
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Bush to Arab world: Drop dead. Driven by right-wing ideologues and his own zeal, President Bush has taken Ariel Sharon's side in the Middle East even while plotting a war with Iraq. Foreign policy experts say that's a dangerous combination. [Salon.com]
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Online Fans Start to Pay the Piper. Music fans once scoffed at the attempts by the record industry to create Internet subscription services. Now they are joining them. By Neil Strauss. [New York Times: Arts] "The selection has finally reached a threshold I'm happy with, and the interface is good now."Interesting.
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Lance Knobel of Davos Newbies does a quick review of Tony Blair's case against Sadam Hussein. [Scripting News]Actually that's Lance quoting a BBC analysis. Blair is really looking like a lapdog. What a shame. "What the document entirely fails to do -- and possibly could never have done -- is show that Saddam Hussein is a current threat, or what his future intentions are."
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This Modern World. Osama? Sooo 2001. All the cool kids are worried about Saddam now! [Salon.com] And besides, we know where to find him!
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Bringing the war home. A rash of murders in military families highlights the weaknesses of the armed services' well-meaning domestic-abuse program. [Salon.com]
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Building the underground computer railroad. Anti-globalization activists in Oakland, Calif., are recycling old machines, loading them with free software and shipping them off to Ecuador. [Salon.com]
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Iraq condemns UK arms dossier. Iraq dismisses UK claims that it has a growing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction[cedilla] offering "unfettered access" to UN inspectors. [BBC News | WORLD]
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Peter Gabriel album preview deployed in MS audio push. First the Stones, now this. We have nothing to fear... [The Register] "We at The Register are unable to confirm the truth of this, as religious convictions prohibit us from possessing all of the bits necessary to get the thing..."Ditto here. Sorry Peter. I'm not buying into MS's view of the world.
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This is a very funny weblog. I especially enjoyed the story about the x-ray glasses. [Janet's Radio Weblog]Good find JP. My fav is a wrong turn
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