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By RAY CONLOGUE
-- The CBC has high hopes for Music Hall, the six-part Quebec miniseries that starts tomorrow. It's a brightly coloured, fast-moving drama about the struggle between Montreal's mafia and a nightclub owner who decides to go straight and promote real artists rather than gangsters' girlfriends. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 11:24:24 AM  >Dr. Mac OS X Tip-of-the-Day. Dr. Mac - Speed up Word Instantly With Today's Tips. [OSXFAQ] .< 11:22:46 AM >Serve user sites without the tilde in the URL [Mac OS X Hints] .< 11:20:30 AM >How Stuff Works' Satellite Radio entry gives a good -though basic - overview of the technology, geopolitics and competition in that arena. [Roymond Radio] .< 11:17:35 AM >Eye on America, Indeed. The pure concept of public video surveillance cameras may make sense, but the more prevalent they become, the scarier their implications get. Commentary by Lauren Weinstein. [Wired News] .< 12:55:44 AM >British Firms Join Up to Lead in Floppy TV Screens. AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two British companies said on Monday they would join forces to become a world leader in the technology of glowing plastics, which by 2005 should yield the first roll-up computer screens and TVs. By Reuters. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:53:53 AM >Scolded, Microsoft Takes Blame for Swarms of Butterfly Decals. The New York City Transportation Department has done in a day what the United States Justice Department could not do for years: made Microsoft say it's sorry. By David W. Dunlap. [New York Times: Technology] "When it gets to the point where it's annoying even to us in the heart of the most rampantly naked commercial district," said Tim Tompkins, the president of the Times Square Business Improvement District, "one has to say that Microsoft has probably gone too far." .< 12:49:05 AM >Name That Tune, From Your Cellphone. Shazam Entertainment, a British start-up, is attracting attention with a music-searching service that runs on cellphones. By David F. Gallagher. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:20:28 AM >SJ Mercury: Tools coming for connecting information. Dan Gillmor. But we need more sophisticated methods for gathering, massaging and making connections among all the pieces of information that enter our lives each day -- everything from e-mail to Web pages to phone numbers and more. So when I see useful tools, I pay attention. [Tomalak's Realm] 'The best part of Find, from my testing of a pre-release version, will be its indexing of e-mail' .< 12:10:21 AM >Solti and Wagner But Not `The Ring'. Mention Richard Wagner and Georg Solti in the same sentence to a record collector, and a discussion of the "Ring" cycle is likely to ensue: specifically, Solti's famous Decca recordings of the four "Ring" operas, made in the 1950's and 60's.By James R. Oestreich. [New York Times: Arts] 'Now comes "The Solti Wagner Collection," a 22-CD set from Decca (with Culshaw partly involved) that includes almost everything but the "Ring".' |
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