One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 22 October 2002

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Apple's Stickiest Marketing Ploy. One of Apple's greatest -- and no doubt cheapest -- marketing coups is handing out decals of the company's logo, which proud users slap on everything from cars to skateboards to Windows computers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

How about 'studio door'? Someone tried to peel it off once. That's ok. Apple ships two stickers.

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Two weeks later he was deported to his native Syria, even though the 32-year-old was travelling on a Canadian passport and has lived in Canada since he was a teenager.Human rights groups like Amnesty International have condemned the actions of the US, and say it has violated international law and put Mr Arar's life in danger.

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Rules are made to be bent

By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- Departing briefly from what must surely be the most tedious question in the entertainment world (are the Rolling Stones too old, yawn, to play rock 'n' roll?), I thought I might instead address the subject of generosity.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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The Vietnam War, as Seen in Art From the Other Side. The Vietnam War was the most filmed, photographed and documented conflict in history, but until recently most images have come from the American side. By Alan Riding. [New York Times: Arts]

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Canadian high-tech trash polluting poor countries
Canada is exporting high-tech trash that could pose a health hazard in poorer countries. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Farce in hunt for sniper. Police beg the killer to ring in again because they had not heard him properly the first time. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Diplomacy 'could resolve Iraq crisis'. President Bush suggests the Iraq crisis could be resolved without military intervention as the US circulates a new draft resolution at the UN. [BBC News | WORLD]