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 Tuesday, 19 November 2002
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Canada appealing decision to exempt natives from taxation
Government lawyers will try Tuesday to have a federal court ruling,
which exempts thousands of First Nations people from paying taxes,
reversed.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
.< 11:09:53 PM >
Awesome! Pathe has put 3500 hours of news reels online. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
.< 10:57:15 PM >
BBC: "UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has promised to give every school, university, hospital and doctors' surgery a high-speed link to the internet." [Scripting News]
.< 10:50:55 PM >
DCMA: Evil for all, even worse for Mac/Linux users. TidBITS (a venerable Mac-focused weekly newsletter) is running a wonderful summary of the issues around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act... [PlaybackTime]
.< 10:48:09 PM >
New digital cameras trounce 35mm. Finally! I'd suspected that tests of the Canon EOS-1D (11 megapixel) and the Kodak DCS Pro 14n (14 mgapixel) would... [PlaybackTime]
If photography is anything like the the world of audio (and I'm sure it is) there will be debate on this for some time to come.
.< 10:44:02 PM >
U.S. trade ruling could hurt Canadian farmers
The Canadian farmer took another possible hit on Tuesday as the United
States International Trade Commission ruled that Canadian wheat imports
hurt U.S. farmers.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
.< 10:43:20 PM >
Rebuilding an Apple From the Past. The historic Apple I is a top prize for computer collectors, who have paid as much as $50,000 to own one. No wonder one enthusiast wants to re-create it. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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Criminals find GST credit an easy mark for fraud
A fraud involving the GST is costing Canadian taxpayers millions of
dollars a year, a CBC News investigation has found.
F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]
.< 12:07:26 PM >
Kevin Werbach: "One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam." [Scripting News]
.< 12:58:48 AM >
10.2.2 displays printer status in print dialog box [Mac OS X Hints]
.< 12:57:39 AM >
Apple releases Sherlock3 development kit [Mac OS X Hints]
.< 12:54:44 AM >
Use phonetic name fields in Address Book [Mac OS X Hints]
.< 12:51:25 AM >
Money and true riches
By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- Are there words more hollow than the ''But they're not happy,'' that so often follow ''They're rich''? I have my doubts. If the not-rich people who keep repeating this weren't so miserable themselves, they wouldn't begrudge the fabulously wealthy people who build preposterously enormous and insanely expensive homes a little happiness. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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National rises to challenge of Russian classic
By PAULA CITRON
-- La Bayadere, Act II; A Delicate Battle; The Firebird The National Ballet of CanadaHummingbird Centrefor the Performing Artsin Toronto on SaturdayIf there was a particularly poignancy in the first pas de deux between Nikiya and Solor in La Bayadere, Act II,there was good reason. Solar (Aleksandar Antonijevic) dreams he is visiting the Kingdom of the Shades in an afterlife meeting with his late, beloved Nikiya (Greta Hodgkinson). The company members of the National Ballet had just learned that William Marrie was dead. The former principal dancer, who left the company to join the Broadway musical Movin' Out,had died following a motorcycle accident in New York. This performance, which opened the season, was dedicated to his memory. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
.< 12:46:00 AM >
Booker Prize Won't Include U.S. Writers. The organizers of Britain's premier literary award have agreed to maintain rules that permit only British, Commonwealth and Irish writers to compete. By Alan Cowell. [New York Times: Arts]
.< 12:39:20 AM >
Sticky problem? Don't worry, you can dump it on Africa. World latest: Leaking oil tanker towed south after Europe says 'not in my back yard'. [Guardian Unlimited]
.< 12:38:17 AM >
Arms inspector row erupts. The United Nations chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has accused hawks in Washington of conducting a smear campaign against him. [Guardian Unlimited]
.< 12:35:59 AM >
Bare Bones Releases BBEdit 7.0 (18-Nov-2002; 1.3K) [TidBITS] 'One wouldn't expect to make a big deal out of a text editor, yet we've run across people who think the Finder is nothing more than an obstacle to launching BBEdit.'
.< 12:30:49 AM >
The Evil That Is the DMCA (18-Nov-2002; 23.5K) [TidBITS] 'In a white paper about the unintended consequences of the DMCA, the Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the DMCA chills free expression and scientific research, jeopardizes fair use, and impedes competition and innovation. In short, this is a law that only the companies who paid for it could love.'
.< 12:22:17 AM >
Lilly Heir Makes $100 Million Bequest to Poetry Magazine. An ailing heir who tried but failed to have her poems published in a small literary journal has given that journal an astonishing bequest that is likely to be worth more than $100 million. By Stephen Kinzer. [New York Times: Arts] A fantastic story. My goodness. Ruth Lilly is quite a lady. Have a look at where she's given money.
.< 12:14:30 AM >
OS X 10.2 Jaguar TutorialSolutions to problems some users are encountering with 10.2.
.< 12:12:39 AM >
Free Mac OS X Orientation - The Atomic Learning Library, by MediaSpinners: "Taming the Jaguar:
A Free Orientation to Mac OS X version 10.2"Wow. Free tutorials in QuickTime! Pretty cool. They use it to advertise their service.
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