One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 26 November 2002

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The Register: "Or perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts? "

OK. Can anybody tell me what this means? This is a sentence from a letter from an outraged RIAA rep responding to a spoof the Gaurdian wrote. I guess they didn't get the joke. Not surprising given the sentence above.

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By ROBERT EVERETT-GREEN
-- Glenn Gould left his whole estate to the Toronto Humane Society and the Salvation Army. Some of his admirers thought there should be some remainder for artists who, like Gould, have changed the musical world, so they raised enough money to fund a $50,000 triennial prize, the latest edition of which was given to French composer Pierre Boulez on Sunday at the CBC's Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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The 9/11 movie Hollywood won't let you see. The "stridently anti-American" anthology film "11'09"01" is sometimes arty, sometimes preachy and sometimes brilliant. In Bush's America, it's also commercially untouchable. [Salon.com]

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High on war. A foreign correspondent and eyewitness to horror argues that war and patriotism are lethal addictive drugs and America should go cold turkey. [Salon.com]

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100 Computers of U.S. Midshipmen Seized. The United States Naval Academy has seized 100 computers from students who are suspected of having downloaded unauthorized copies of music files over the Internet. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]

The RIAA is completely out of control.