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By SANDRA MARTIN
-- Guy Vanderhaeghe is like a tree standing tall on the prairie -- solid, dependable, solitary. Dependable does not mean dull.For two decades and seven books of fiction, he's been a literary landmark against which other writers have measured themselves. His new novel, The Last Crossing, is a page-turner of a western that abounds with brawls, battles, booze and babes. It begins with the rape and murder of a young girl and ends with the last and probably the largest Indian battle in the Canadian Northwest, a bloody engagement in October, 1870, in the coulees of what was then called the Belly River. But The Last Crossing is more than a gripping read. It is a serious and layered novel about our deep, human fault lines around gender, race, class and the past. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
By GAYLE MACDONALD Lots o' Canucks in that show. .< 5:58:36 PM  >Smart parts Science fiction is becoming medical fact as a new generation of artificial implants interact with the human body, SHAFIQ QAADRI writes
By SHAFIQ QAADRI What? A smart penis? I don't think so! ;-] .< 5:54:15 PM >Microsoft's media monopoly. Bill Gates wants to control the delivery of digital entertainment into your home. And according to a lawsuit brought by a pioneering software company, he's prepared to crush anything that gets in his way. First of two parts. [Salon.com] .< 5:47:50 PM >Snow in Edmonton - but still our ground is bare. We're all taking bets on whether we can make it to Halloween without any of the white stuff. Never in my time here in the Yukon (since 1984) have we had a green Halloween. [Janet's Radio Weblog] .< 2:22:29 PM >PodNews 3 is an aggregator for Apple's iPod. [Scripting News] Very very cool. Cait's iPod might not be safe (from her father)! .< 2:19:26 PM >Chicago Sun-Times: "The aggregator found in Radio Userland is even more powerful, but then again things from Userland generally are." [Scripting News] No question. .< 3:25:48 AM >End of the Line for a 'Free Bird'. Music producer Tom Dowd, who died on Sunday, achieved prominence for making some of the finest recordings for Aretha Franklin, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. But he had a hand in the atom bomb, too. By Noah Shachtman. [Wired News] How sad. One of the greatest pop music engineers of all time. .< 3:21:47 AM >Apple nearly triples server marketshare [The Macintosh News Network] .< 3:13:49 AM >Libby Brooks: Lights, camera, phwoar!. Why do people video themselves having sex? Libby Brooks on the camcorder in the bedroom. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 3:04:52 AM >Chirac furious after row with Blair. Enraged Chirac cancels Anglo-French summit after row with 'very rude' Blair. [Guardian Unlimited] Amazing. A Frenchman finds an Englishman rude!? .< 3:02:26 AM >US weapons secrets exposed. Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warn that the US is developing new weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare. [Guardian Unlimited] Nice. How's your axis lookin' now? .< 2:58:56 AM >Minneapolis-St. Paul Wi-Fi: This comprehensive feature covers many aspects of hot spots, from business to community to individual, focused on the Twin Cities region. It's quite a nice article, moving from local to national to international and back without missing a beat, and the reporter (Julio Ojeda-Zapata) knows his stuff, explaining the technology well and offering context for free and commercial hot spot service. I love that he was able to get actual connections numbers for the Concourse service at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport! [80211b News] .< 2:50:02 AM >The Post-Dutoit Montreal Symphony Visits Carnegie Hall. When the Montreal Symphony Orchestra visited Carnegie Hall on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, it brought two conductors. By Allan Kozinn. [New York Times: Arts] .< 2:38:19 AM >Refugee advocates say they'll resurrect underground railroad 
Some refugee advocates in Canada say they'll defy the law and become people smugglers if Canada puts into effect its new 'safe third country' agreement with the United States. [CBC News] .< 2:34:52 AM >Windows Media Audio reverse-engineered. Microsoft's very-proprietary Windows Media Audio format has been reverse engineered as part of the FFmpeg project. Codecs from the FFmpeg... [PlaybackTime] .< 2:05:53 AM >Universal Releases First Batch of SACD Titles Santa Monica, CA (October 29, 2002)--Universal Music Group (UMG) has released its first Super Audio CD (SACD) titles in the United States. [ProSound News] .< 2:04:19 AM >Opensecrets.org has posted graphs of Microsoft campaign contributions, which apparently shot from a few thousand dollars a year to millions of dollars a year after the U.S. Justice Department opened its investigation into illegal abuse of Microsoft's monopoly power [Macintouch] .< 2:03:38 AM >Cube-Tec Shows CubeDVD-A Proof at AES Los Angeles (October 29, 2002)--During the recent AES Convention in Los Angels, Cube-Tec demonstrated CubeDVD-A Proof, an addition to the company's DVD-A authoring package. [ProSound News] .< 1:57:51 AM >The first casualty of the cold wars
By DAVID MACFARLANE -- The cold season is upon me once again. And it doesn't feel as if it plans on getting off. I am shivering, wheezing, hacking, snuffling, coughing. I am (barn door; horse) downing echinacea like there's no tomorrow. And if tomorrow feels anything like today, having none of it would be just fine by me. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Funny. I woke up with a cold myself this morning. Sigh. .< 1:50:02 AM >[10:30 ET] Ethan Rutter's BeerMeister 2.0 is a searchable database that lets home brewers manage recipes and track such things as name, origin, style, difficulty, color, specific gravity, ingredients, instructions, notes, and multiple brewing logs. Recipes can be imported, exported and printed. The $13 program, from MR Stuff Shareware, runs on Mac OS 8 and higher, with a Mac OS X version now available. [Macintouch] |
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