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Yo Yo Ma! .< 1:33:46 AM  >OSXFAQ - Technical News and Support for Mac OS X: "But yesterday, the December issue of Macworld arrived. In addition to a fabulous illustration of Sal "Dr. AppleScript" Soghoian pulling an AppleScript out of a hat, and the Amazing AppleScript article, (penned by Sal and almost certainly the best introduction to AppleScript I've ever read), Chris Breen had the answer in his Mac 911 column." Gotta pick up this issue for the AppleScript article. .< 1:29:58 AM >Early Desktop Pics Ahead of Time. Decorating a computer's desktop with a photo of a pet, a kid or a trip to Florida is commonplace. But back in the early 1990s, a forward-looking designer transformed his Mac's dull gray desktop into an integrated work of cyberart. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] These days I have pictures from our summer vacation rotating on my desktop, changing each hour. It reminds me that there's life away from my laptop. .< 1:25:00 AM >Found: a modern master
By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN After a month in jail and he'd probably have been in there longer if Powell hadn't come to Ottawa today. .< 12:43:43 AM >Powell makes short visit to Ottawa 
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was in Ottawa on Thursday, where he lauded what he called the "treasured relationship" between the two nations. Powell also indicated the U.S. may be looking for Canada's support in any military action against Iraq. [CBC News] .< 12:39:59 AM >Classic Crosby/Nash Concert Released on DVD-Audio Agoura Hills, CA (November 15, 2002)--DTS Entertainment (DTSE) has set a release date (Nov. 26) for a 5.1 surround DVD-Audio (DVD-A) remix of David Crosby and Graham Nash's 1971 live concert performance, Another Stoney Evening. [ProSound News] .< 12:37:48 AM >SADiE Begins DSD, SACD Educational Presentations Nashville (November 15, 2002)--SADiE, in association with the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES), has begun a series of educational presentations to inform the audio community and address leading questions regarding Direct Stream Digital (DSD) and Super Audio CD (SACD) audio formats. [ProSound News] I'm a bit surprised to see this combination of commercial and non-commercial interests. .< 12:31:24 AM >A Heavy Lifter for the Move From Windows to Mac. Packing up and moving all your things from one place to another can be stressful, whether the destination is a new house or a new computer, and a cross-platform move may even seem more daunting than a cross-country relocation. By J.d. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:28:42 AM >A Chance to Select Just the Right Earbud. When Shure began selling a wireless radio receiver system for musicians who wanted to monitor their onstage performances, it noticed something unusual. Scott Sullivan, the company's category director for personal monitor systems, said that the noise-isolating in-ear headphones quickly started outselling the radio receivers."It became obvious that the headphones were being used for other things like MP3 players," he said. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:26:20 AM >The Kind of Noise That Keeps a Body on Balance 'In a series of experiments, healthy 75-year-olds stood on a platform that transmitted randomly varying vibrations to the soles of their feet. With these good vibrations, the subjects reflexively adjusted their balance until they swayed about the same amount as 25-year-olds who did not receive the random signals. Younger people who used the vibrating system also swayed less.' It's like dither in a digital audio system! This model keeps showing up everywhere. We need randomness. .< 12:21:17 AM >Experts Say a bin Laden Impostor Could Fool a Lot of People. The science of using computers and linguists to identify individuals by their speech has improved, but it still involves considerable guess work. By Michael Moss. [New York Times: Technology] |
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