One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 20 November 2002

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Islamists riots over Miss World report. Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria burn down the offices of a newspaper which referred to the Prophet in an article on the Miss World contest. [BBC News | WORLD]

Great photo

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The International Children's Digital Library is a place where kids all over the world can find lots of books from many different countries. It's a place where kids can read as much as they want without having to pay a lot of money or travel very far to find the books. If you have a computer and access to the Internet, you can see books from places like Croatia, Egypt, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and more!

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We're getting a lot of Chimera feedback asking why the Windows Media Player plugin doesn't work. Unfortunately no Mac OS X browser other than IE is capable of using this plugin, as it appears that Microsoft implemented it in a non-standard manner. Rather than complaining to browser developers to add support for it, people should lobby Microsoft to release it as a standard plugin that all Mac OS X browser can use. Not that I'd know how one goes about lobbying Microsoft :-)

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By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN

-- ''Music contains an energy long since lost to language,'' Virgil Thomson writes in his 1996 memoir. That may be why opera still exists, and also why so many film directors are willing to desert their sound stages for opera houses.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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Face-off over a portrait Intriguing things came out at a forum on the reputed Shakespeare likeness, writes STEPHANIE NOLEN, including Oxfordians
FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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A Catastrophic Failure to Think the Unthinkable. Bill Gertz asks why America's intelligence apparatus failed to assemble and interpret clues that might have suggested what the terrorists were about to inflict. By Sam Roberts. [New York Times: Arts]

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Race to contain tanker disaster. An ecological catastrophe looms in north-west Spain, where bad weather is hampering efforts to tackle oil pollution from a sunken tanker. [BBC News | WORLD]

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Confusion over fate of Canadian man deported from U.S.
The wife of a Canadian man deported to Syria is asking federal officials to say publicly what they've told her in private -- that her husband is not a terrorist. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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The Salon Interview: Daniel Ellsberg. The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers talks about why five American presidents lied about Vietnam -- and how to get the truth on Iraq. [Salon.com]

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'Americans ignorant of their UK kinsfolk'. Travel: Most Americans are so ignorant of their kinsfolk in Britain they believe the UK is a country "somewhere" in the Middle East, according to the tourism minister, Kim Howells. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Tales of Oz, Wonderland Go Online. A digital library of international children's literature puts best-loved classics and new stories from around the world at kids' beck and call. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News]

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Carbon Copy Cloner 2.0 offers sync options [The Macintosh News Network]