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Roll over. Play dead. This is pretty infuriating. .< 8:56:44 PM  >RIAA engineered the webcast split - former exec. Divide and conquer [The Register] .< 8:54:46 PM >U.S. claims top al-Qaeda leader captured U.S. officials say al-Qaeda leader Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri has been captured. [CBC News] .< 8:53:48 PM >Can this man save classical music?. You think modern concert music is doomed to atonal squonk? You haven't heard Lowell Liebermann, the postmodernist composer listeners actually like. [Salon.com] Wake up folks. It's the 21st century. There is a lot of contemporary music that listeners like to hear. .< 8:50:27 PM >"An irresponsible exercise in political chicanery". In a fiery speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Robert Byrd calls the Department of Homeland Security a butt-coverer for Bush, a corporate boondoggle and a license for Uncle Sam to spy on Americans. [Salon.com] .< 8:35:55 PM >Inflation rate surges to 3.2 per cent 
The annual inflation rate rose to 3.2 per cent in October (up from 2.3 per cent in September), as energy costs drove the headline CPI figure higher than the 3 per cent figure economists had been expecting. [CBC News] .< 8:35:10 PM >Meeting to have bad news for cod fishery
Federal fisheries officials were in Montreal Thursday to present a report that could spell the end of the cod fishery. [CBC News] .< 8:34:39 PM >Ottawa's new Kyoto plan emphasizes individuals
In its latest Kyoto plan, the federal government wants every Canadian to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions by one tonne a year. [CBC News] .< 8:20:53 PM >Frank Gehry at the drawing board Ken Thomson's immense gift to the Art Gallery of Ontario and Gehry's AGO reconstruction are combining to produce a ray of light in these dark times, writes LISA ROCHON
By LISA ROCHON
-- Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, In a light fantastic round. John Milton Before the facts of terrorism and urban decline, we were accustomed to deep, easy slumbers in this country. It's difficult to admit, but darkness swirls all around us now, disturbing our Canadian psyche. So when something powerful enough happens to break through the despair, it dazzles our minds and invigorates our spirits. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
By GAYLE MACDONALD
-- The head of Telefilm Canada weighed in yesterday on the precarious state of Canadian-made drama, pointing out that despite the whopping $1.4-billion taxpayers fork over annually to produce these TV shows, hardly anyone bothers to watch. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Globe and Mail Arts: "[T]here's no mistaking the silk in Karina Gauvin's voice, which has become both more refined and more expressive in recent years, even when she sings a folk tune. Gauvin is outstanding here in a selection of Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne. . . . Gauvin's interpretations are an irresistible mix of queenly artistry and village girl's charm: They're pearly, polished and alive with personality. Raffi Armenian's Canadian Chamber Ensemble glitters too, sharing the limelight -- and a prominence in the mix -- with Gauvin in the best possible way."
Phew. Fascinating. The thing I worried about with the mix was that I'd placed Karina too far ahead of the orchestra. But the reviewer here isn't the only one who thinks there's plenty of orchestra. (Hi Karen!) At least she doesn't think it's out of balance. .< 5:57:53 PM >Classical (G & M) - Marie Antoinette may have loved dressing up as a shepherdess, but her petticoats were pure silk By the same token, there's no mistaking the silk in Karina Gauvin's voice, which has become both more refined and more expressive in recent years, even when she sings a folk tune. Gauvin is outstanding here in a selection of Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne, folksongs in the local dialect of the French composer's native Auvergne dressed up in the aristocratic finery of post-Impressionist harmonies and orchestrations. A project of my friend PC. I know he's put much sweat and tears into this one. Contrats Peter. [Janet's Radio Weblog]Thanks Janet! How do you like that. Hearing about a review of a disc you worked on from a friends weblog! .< 5:52:22 PM >Sony Music Studios Installs 84-Channel Neve 88R Analog Console in Studio B Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] Interesting that at this late stage they are staying analogue. I think it makes a lot of sense for a couple of reasons. One, many of their sources are analogue. Two, there are no DSD mixers and Sony would need that to push their concept of DSD as being the way to go. .< 5:49:22 PM >Proliferation of choice may confuse: As if to prove my point above, this article appears in Wired News today. With so many flavors of 802.11 networks now or shortly available, businesses and consumers may have a hard time sorting out what they need. [80211b News] .< 5:47:59 PM >Three Apple products make TechTV top 20 [The Macintosh News Network] .< 5:40:03 PM >Poetry Hits the Jackpot. Poets reacted to the news that an 87-year-old heir to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune had given what could be as much as $100 million to Poetry magazine. By Martin Arnold. [New York Times: Arts] .< 5:39:02 PM >Future of Wi-Fi: Fast, Fast, Fast. Alternate flavors of 802.11b, the wireless networking standard millions know and love, offer speed -- lots of it. But all is not coming up roses. By Will Wade. [Wired News] .< 5:35:41 PM >Apple's New Net-Based Apps
Apple's latest Operating System, Mac OS X 10.2 (a.k.a. Jaguar), offers a pretty compelling example of what Internet-assisted applications are likely to look like in the next generation. Some of the applications in Jaguar [~] iCal, iSync, and Sherlock [~] use the Internet to produce highly useable and useful applications in very clever ways. Apple has also developed a low-level set of APIs that allow developers to tap into Web services from whichever development environment they use in Mac OS X, whether it be AppleScript, Cocoa, Carbon, or Java.[webmonkey] [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] I wonder if it occurs to the US Americans that he might be talking about them. .< 2:04:53 AM >Microsoft Discloses Flaw in Windows. REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday disclosed a security flaw of ``critical'' severity in most versions of its popular Windows operating system. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] Another cost of giving your money to a monopolist. .< 2:02:15 AM >Somebody stop them! Before they aquire again!. Loudeye -- that webcasting/encoding company with the impenetrably odd name -- continues their feeding frenzy with the aquisition of "Streampipe",... [PlaybackTime] .< 1:58:21 AM >"Move to OS X" presentation to include Woz [The Macintosh News Network] .< 1:55:41 AM >"Where is MP4?". Another day, another My First MPEG-4 story. It's interesting that the author's frame of reference is MP3 -- the only... [PlaybackTime] .< 1:54:24 AM >Could AACplus make MPEG-4 the best streaming format for audio?. AACplus is the next evolution of AAC. It's being used today in XM satellite radio, and it's on its way... [PlaybackTime] .< 1:46:01 AM >Charges laid in tainted blood scandal The RCMP is laying charges against the Canadian Red Cross, a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company and some doctors in the tainted blood scandal that rocked Canada in the 1980s. [CBC News] .< 1:45:54 AM >Infoworld praises PowerBook G4 laptop [The Macintosh News Network] |
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