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.< 8:22:31 PM  >RealNetworks drops authoring support for Mac OS X. Most people don't realize that a significant consequence of the Helix DNA platform is that RealNetworks has washed their hands... [PlaybackTime] .< 8:20:23 PM >Music Industry Shows Signs of Adapting Amid Tumult 'Despite that, Doug Morris, chief executive of the Universal Music Group, is optimistic, predicting that the industry's subscription-based online offerings, which recently began to allow CD burning, will provide a lucrative source of secondary revenue [~] enough to rival the sale of compact discs. "Every day it is more and more," he said in a recent interview. "It is going to shock everyone."' The only thing that's shocking is how long it took the music industry to figure this out. .< 8:13:58 PM >Book Excerpt: Good Color Practice. Part 3 of our series of excerpts from Chapter 2 of Web Graphics for Non-Designers discusses good color practice; especially when using color on the Web. 1216 [WebReference News] .< 8:12:24 PM >Forum Considers CD/DVD-Audio Hybrid New York City (December 16, 2002)--Seeking to match the appeal of Sony and Philips' Super Audio CD format, DVD-Audio supporters are discussing development of their own dual-layer stereo CD/multichannel DVD hybrid disc. [ProSound News] I don't know if this is the answer but at least they are doing something. I really wish these guys hadn't blown it so badly. .< 7:40:49 PM >Bush to California: Choke on this. The White House has joined with the oil and auto industries to undermine the state's rigorous environmental regulations. [Salon.com] .< 7:38:18 PM >PC killer on the loose'We beat them twice as hard because they're so pretty and because, well, we're not Mac people. When it was over, the PowerBooks owned us utterly. Trust us; that never happens.' I don't think I've ever seen such a rave for a computer product, particularly for a Mac from a non-Mac publication. Give it a read. What's interesting is that recent reviews of Mac products from non-Mac reviewers are responding to the entire experience. It's not just the hardware that blows them away (we Mac people almost take it for granted). They are equally impressed by the OS. OS X is proving to be a brilliant move for Apple. .< 7:26:36 PM >A milestone today, My Weblog Outliner has a tester, Adam Curry. I'm waiting to hear from him if it worked. My notes are on my Radio weblog, written with MWO of course. Just checking, it still works with Moveable Type. [Scripting News] Dave's New Year's gift to his users? I hope so. .< 7:24:23 PM >Jon Udell: "Fast-Talk Communications' revolutionary phonetic indexing and search technology brings the magic of full-text search to the formerly opaque realms of audio recordings and video soundtracks." [Scripting News] Think Google for recorded voice. Freaky. .< 7:19:25 PM >Warchalking is chosen by the NY Times as one of the ideas of the year. [Scripting News] .< 7:12:12 PM >Canadian activist fights deportation from Israel Canadian peace activist Jaggi Singh won a temporary legal battle in Israel Sunday, after being denied permission to start what he called a fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights abuses against Palestinians. [CBC News] .< 12:38:30 PM >Film Gimp available for Mac OS X [The Macintosh News Network] .< 12:27:49 PM >The Year in Boxes: Bjork to Dylan to Dischord. The pop music and jazz critics of The New York Times consider a selection of boxed sets released this year. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:22:53 PM >Propaganda and 'Lord of the Rings'. For all the proto-multiculturalism of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, in the current climate it's impossible not to experience Peter Jackson's "Two Towers" as war propaganda of unnerving power. By Karen Durbin. [New York Times: Arts] A good piece on the complications of artists' stated intent and what their art represents. .< 12:14:47 PM >Riding a War Horse to Different Destinations: "A desire for spontaneity presumably helped drive the release of this live recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto by the gifted fiddler Gil Shaham. Yet nothing in his poised and potent performance, from May 2000, suggests a magic unobtainable in the studio." I doubt it's really 'live'. "Live' recordings are often in fact a number of live performances edited together and usually include a sound check or patch session without audience. .< 12:07:10 PM >Puccini Turns Respectable. New books by Julian Budden and Mary Jane Phillips-Matz show that Puccini, long a favorite of opera audiences, is finally winning favor among musical scholars. By Gary Tomlinson. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:06:02 PM >Bin Laden 'exploits Palestinian cause'. Yasser Arafat accuses the leader of the al-Qaeda network of hiding behind the Palestinian cause for his own purposes. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] |
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