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I smell a disaster. Greed'll get you. .< 11:07:13 PM  >Crash Kills William Marrié, 33, a Lead Dancer in 'Movin' Out'. William Marrié was a classical dancer of exceptional dramatic power from the National Ballet of Canada who was appearing in "Movin' Out." By Anna Kisselgoff. [New York Times: Arts] .< 11:06:35 PM >NY Times: entrenched interests fear Wi-Fi may cause retrenching: In a nicely clever piece of reasoning, John Markoff spells out Wi-Fi's potential to disrupt entrenched telecommunications interests especially as the FCC examines opening up more spectrum to unlicensed or related use. As I have often said, incumbent market interests always get angry when consumers produce a more efficient marketplace. Rather than fight in the market, they encourage regulation or legislation to tip the playing field that's already heavily tilted their direction. [80211b News] .< 10:57:39 PM >iPulse is a modern-art-inspired system monitor for OS X. [Hack the Planet] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] Looks pretty freakin' cool if one can judge from the web pages .< 9:30:04 PM >Personal music stations for 3G phones. Brussels, the MUSICAL [The Register] Music?! Good god, no. How about speech intelligability first? .< 8:49:28 PM >Iranian students clash with hardliners. Iranian students clash with hardline militia groups in the latest protests against a reformist academic's death sentence. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 8:48:36 PM >Thousands mourn executed Pakistani. Crowds chant anti-American slogans as the coffin of Aimal Khan Kansi[cedilla] executed in the US on Friday[cedilla] arrives in Pakistan. [BBC News | WORLD] .< 8:47:47 PM >Businesses, Big and Small, Bet on Wireless Internet Access. In the wake of the wild boom and bust that followed the emergence of the Web, some now argue that the wireless Internet is the next frontier. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] .< 7:51:53 PM >Toronto has now had its first real dump of snow. And, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, we are still virtually snow free. [Janet's Radio Weblog] Oh dear. BTW, Janet lives in the Yukon! .< 7:46:03 PM >Is Macintosh losing ground as a digital media client?. An article on News.com today discusses how most pay-to-play (and many free) content services don't support Macintosh. As is the case with many of News.com[base ']s articles about digital media, the reporters are a little too lazy or uninformed to follow up on some of the most interesting bits. For example... [PlaybackTime] .< 7:42:38 PM >Microsoft Shows 85% Profit Margins for Windows. Microsoft has revealed for the first time that it has made profit margins of 85 percent on its Windows system while its remaining businesses made losses. By Paul Abrahams, Ft.com. [New York Times: Technology] The make an obscene profit from Windows which means they can lose incredible amounts of money on other projects (eg about US$120 on every xbox they sell). This allows them to destroy competition in other markets and eventually take them over. Nice. .< 7:29:30 PM >Producing Great Sound for Digital Video Released Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 7:28:37 PM >AOL's new streaming technology. Today AOL Time Warner introduced Broadband Radio@AOL, a broadband radio service built on Yet Another Proprietary Streaming Format. This YAPSF... [PlaybackTime] .< 10:42:33 AM >Canadian activists stage anti-war rallies 
Thousands of protesters opposed to a military strike against Iraq are holding demonstrations in big and small communities across the country this weekend. [CBC News] |
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