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Music programmes. .< 11:10:19 PM  >Ashcroft says no special status for Canadians entering U.S. 
Canadian citizens crossing the border into the U.S. should not expect any special treatment, according to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. He says every country in the world will be screened by the same new, strict standards. [CBC News] .< 11:09:20 PM >PM threatened to call election to bring caucus into line 
CBC News has learned that two days ago, at the Liberal cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien threatened to call an election, if he found it too difficult to govern. [CBC News] .< 11:04:01 PM >
US Army uses "laser" to shoot down artillery shell. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog].< 10:59:38 PM >No Fish Tale: Swimming in Macs. Aquariums made from old Macintosh computers have become as iconic as the Mac itself. The practice started as a joke, but has evolved into a booming cottage industry. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 'No can identify who made the first Mac aquarium, but Andy Inhatko, a veteran Mac columnist, seems to have kicked off the trend in 1992.' I remember reading his sarcastic answer. Bet I still have that issue of MacUser in the closet! .< 9:27:22 PM >Stop and search bias revealed. UK latest: Black people are eight times more likely to be stopped by police than white people, figures show. [Guardian Unlimited] So it's not just Toronto? Or the US border? .< 5:06:22 PM >Ashcroft says border controls not based on race
The United States is not using an individual's birthplace alone as a trigger for extensive border checks, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday. [CBC News] .< 3:45:04 PM >"The Spinster and the Prophet" by A.B. McKillop. In the 1920s, judges ridiculed a Canadian woman who said H.G. Wells plagiarized her book, but a modern scholar finds her case convincing. [Salon.com] .< 3:39:34 PM >Storm lashes Nova Scotia
Parts of Nova Scotia were snowed in Thursday morning after an overnight storm dumped as much as 30 centimetres of snow on some regions of the province. [CBC News] Sounds like fun! Mom's down there now with Amber and family. I bet the kids were home from school today. .< 3:36:44 PM >Iranian academic sentenced to death. Academic Hashem Aghajari, who criticised "blind obedience" to decrees from Iran's clerics, is handed the death penalty. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 3:34:07 PM >ACM Workshop on DRM papers available for download. The 2002 ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management is being held on 18 Nov 2002 in Washington DC as part of... [PlaybackTime] Includes a paper on copy protection for audio CD. .< 1:34:39 PM >Use speech service to help proofread documents [Mac OS X Hints] .< 2:23:21 AM >Virtix Effects for Final Cut Pro released [The Macintosh News Network] .< 1:11:26 AM >For Canada's Top Novelists, Being Born Abroad Helps. A good many if not a majority of the leading lights of Canadian letters today are immigrants, including the three finalists for the Booker Prize this year. By Clifford Krauss. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:03:14 AM >Beyond MP3s: iPod Holds Genome. Hipsters everywhere tote their favorite tunes on Apple's sleek iPod. One geneticist uses it to store the human genome. Together with custom Apple software, it could help uncover what separates humans from chimps. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] .< 1:00:47 AM >It's finally happened. As I sit here writing this, it is snowing outside. [Janet's Radio Weblog] So let's just be sure I've got this right. It snowed in Toronto (last Friday) before it snowed in Whitehorse?! .< 12:55:19 AM >Spiky Ravel to Relieve Anxiety. The tempestuous pianist Martha Argerich played magnificently to a sold-out house at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night. By Anthony Tommasini. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:53:42 AM >Sound Designer's Secrets Revealed to DV Editors Lawrence, KS (November 7, 2002)--Audio Post Production for Digital Video, a new book by Clio- and Emmy-award-winning sound designer Jay Rose, is a compendium of virtually every professional audio technique that can be adapted to desktop audio. [ProSound News] .< 12:52:59 AM >Court Grants Second Major Victory in Aimster Case Washington, DC (November 7, 2002)--In a major victory in the fight against the illegal uploading and downloading of music and other copyrighted works, a U.S. District Court Judge granted an all-encompassing preliminary injunction against the file-swapping site Aimster (a.k.a. Madster). [ProSound News] .< 12:44:26 AM >Chris Hamady, technology coordinator for the Regina Coeli School, raves about a hardware/software combination we mentioned recently: Having just read your news item concerning the Microscope 1.0 software created by Eric Hangstefer, I immediately went out and purchased the Digital Blue QX3+ Microscope from ToysRUs for only $39.95. I downloaded and installed the software, connected the microscope to the USB ports on my iBook, and was completely blown away. I took it to my school and showed it to the science teachers who were equally flabbergasted. Everyone thought that it must have cost me $200.00 or more. This is one serious academic tool and I would highly recommend it to anyone. The software worked flawlessly, and allowed me to make image files and time lapse movies of my specimens. Kudos to Eric for his awesome contribution to the Mac community.[Macintouch] Hmmmm. Might be a Christmas present in there. .< 12:31:01 AM >How the world sees Americans. Journalist Mark Hertsgaard traveled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. [Salon.com] 'Some might bristle at Hertsgaard's grave assessment of our ignorance, but his central assertion -- that America needs to listen to the rest of the world instead of dictating policy -- is compelling and heartfelt.' Duh. Only Americans can possibly be surprised by this advice. Good grief. The article is an interview and is a good read. .< 12:16:22 AM >BBC cuts jobs in £200m shortfall. News and current affairs programmes expected to bear brunt of job losses. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:12:35 AM >Breaking the silence After surviving 'one war, two exiles and a death,' Montreal playwright and novelist Wajdi Mouawad has stories to tell
By KATE TAYLOR
-- For an artist who is setting the Quebec cultural scene on fire, Wajdi Mouawad is surprisingly soft-spoken. If the 34-year-old Montreal playwright, director and now novelist can sound furiously angry in his public pronouncements, if the central character in his plays is often the confused and rebellious child flinging insults in the face of an incomprehensible and idiotic adult world, then the man himself is gentle, with little flashes of wry humour erupting from the earnest thoughts on the power of art that he speaks in the flowing French learned during his adolescence as a Lebanese exile in Paris. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN Boycott BMG. They are not manufacturing 'red book' audio CDs. That means that there is no gaurantee that they will play in your CD player. This industry seems content to eat itself. .< 12:01:39 AM >Say Cheese, for Airport Insecurity and for Art. A Canadian artist gathered an unusual collection of photos taken at security checkpoints by spreading the word on Web 'zines. By Sarah Boxer. [New York Times: Technology] |
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