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Important moves in the background of the 'entertainment' industries. .< 8:22:28 PM  >Canadians remember victims of Montreal massacre 
Members of Parliament observed a minute's silence in Ottawa on Friday to remember the 14 women who were shot and killed by a gunman at Montreal's L'École Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989.
[CBC News] .< 8:20:49 PM >Frontier News: "New beta releases of both Frontier and Radio UserLand for Mac OS X are now available." [Scripting News] '... fix a crashing bug introduced with Apple's release of Mac OS X 10.2.2' .< 8:15:45 PM >Paul Boutin: "'CD quality' is a term audio engineers use sarcastically." [Scripting News] Oh man. It's great to see this get issue get some bandwidth. I have a little rant I must write up soon. This may inspire me. .< 8:07:50 PM >Worshipping at the Altar of Mac. The Mac community is like a new-age religion, one expert argues, but is it truly a cult? Part four in a series by Leander Kahney. [Wired News] A fun romp. Much of this resonates with me. The cult thing is just an attention grabbing headline.. .< 10:42:23 AM >You've Got Tunes, Like It or Not. Need to call AOL customer service? More than a quarter-million people a day do, and all of them have to sit through a ditty by, say, LeAnn Rimes, before ever getting through to a real person. By Steve Friess. [Wired News] .< 10:40:24 AM >Just posted! Canon PowerShot G3 review. Canon announced the new PowerShot G3 at Photokina this year, it builds on the PowerShot 'G' platform by increasing the optical zoom to four times, adding a built-in ND filter, a new control dial, power dial,... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 10:39:11 AM >No children allowed. President Bush wants welfare recipients to marry -- but not have kids. [Salon.com] .< 10:37:41 AM >Washington won't release evidence of Iraqi weapons
The Bush administration says it has solid evidence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, but feels no obligation to prove its allegations before leading an attack on Baghdad. [CBC News] .< 1:02:46 AM >Canadians like Romanow report on medicare: poll 
A majority of Canadians embrace Roy Romanow's report on health care reform, but more than a third doubt that his advice will be followed, according to a new poll. [CBC News] .< 12:57:38 AM >US insists Iraq is hiding weapons. The Bush administration prepares its own evidence against Saddam Hussein as a UN deadline for Iraq to declare its weapons approaches. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says US officials are not revealing what information they have, in order to force Iraq to guess what it might be. Then if Iraq - which maintains it has no banned weapons - tells the UN something which can be shown to be false, the US could direct weapons inspectors towards a target and possibly hasten action against Saddam's regime, our correspondent says.' In other words the US is less interested in eliminating Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction than they are in having pretext under which they can attack Iraq. It's a game like one a maladjusted teenage boy might play. .< 12:50:58 AM >High-Speed Wireless Internet Network Is Planned. AT&T, I.B.M. and Intel plan a venture to offer WiFi service nationwide. The technology allows connection to the Internet at high speed without cables. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:49:34 AM >Judge Likens Microsoft's Effect on Java to a Bang on the Knee. The judge hearing Sun Microsystems antitrust case against Microsoft challenged Microsoft's argument that it should not be forced to include Sun's Java program in Windows. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Technology] |
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