One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 31 October 2002

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Stravinsky: Missing from His Music , Norman Lebrecht, 10/30/2002 [La Scena Musicale - News]

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News.Com: "In a case of strange bedfellows, Dell Computer has started selling Apple Computer's iPod portable music player." [Scripting News]

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When Headphones Measure Up to the Music. Advances in lightweight headphones have taken the compromise out of listening to music on the go. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology]

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Dolby Launches Virtual Speaker Technology
San Francisco (October 31, 2002)--Dolby Laboratories has launched Dolby Virtual Speaker technology, a next-generation algorithm that is designed to reproduce the dynamics and surround-sound effects of a 5.1-channel speaker system on a PC equipped with just two speakers. [ProSound News]

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Afghan pregnancy death rate soars. Warnings have been issued about the soaring maternal death rates in Afghanistan after it was revealed that 50 women die each day. [BBC News | WORLD] 'Peter Huff-Rousselle, the head of the UNPF in Kabul, said: "In Afghanistan every day, 50 women die of complications related to pregnancy.

"Virtually all these deaths are preventable."

He added: "In my own country Canada, with a somewhat larger population, it would be a national scandal if 50 women died of these causes in a year."'

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Goliath crushes David. Even as it was fighting its antitrust battle with the feds, Microsoft was already on to Round 2: Winning the streaming-media wars. Second of two parts. [Salon.com]

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Culture minister vents his spleen on Turner prize. Arts: "If this is the best British artists can produce then British art is lost. It is cold, mechanical, conceptual bullshit," opines culture minister Kim Howells. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Canadian teachers included in free OS X deal [The Macintosh News Network]

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Queen Street will never be the same The BamBoo closes tonight after 20 cool years. REBECCA CALDWELL reflects on the reggae, Pad Thai and relaxing vibe it brought to the hippest street in Toronto

By REBECCA CALDWELL

-- Winter has at last come to the home of Toronto's eternal summer. Tonight, once the last bottle of Tusker beer is drained and the final bouncing refrain fades into a low hum, there'll be no more jammin' at the 'Boo.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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CEDAR Audio Sets New Standard
Los Angeles (November 1, 2002)--CEDAR Audio introduced a new operating platform at the 113th AES Convention, the modular and scalable CEDAR Cambridge systems. The new topology allows the processing of one to eight channels, with realtime monitoring, at sample rates up to 96 kHz. Processing is always done at a 64-bit, floating-point word resolution, and multiple processes can be applied simultaneously. [ProSound News]

They've set the bar where it needs to be - very high. Bravo.

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