Tuesday, 17 December 2002
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50 Most Loathsome People. Don't miss the Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America --it's funny, provacative and just mean enough without being ugly.... [Steve's No Direction Home Page] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
ooh la la. Dude is hot! I'm not sure what it says about American culture that pop culture 'stars' are as loathesome as the people who just wanna bomb the bejesus out of anyone who doesn't think like them.
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The Wireless Networking Starter Kit (16-Dec-2002; 13.4K) [TidBITS]
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Digital Camera Goodies 2002 (16-Dec-2002; 17.1K) [TidBITS]
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Some Macs to Boot Mac OS 9 Through Mid-2003? (16-Dec-2002; 1.7K) [TidBITS]
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BBC NEWS | Health | Brain secrets of music melody: ""One chunk of the brain was responding when the melody was in G major or E minor and another part of the circuit was responding when it was in E major for example.""
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Ship collides with Channel wreck. A cargo ship strikes the sunken vessel that went down in the English Channel on Saturday carrying a $50 million load of luxury cars. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]Doh!
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Zal Yanovsky, Guitarist With Lovin' Spoonful in 60's, Dies at 57. Zal Yanovsky's distinctive guitar playing and ebullient personality helped make the Lovin' Spoonful one of the most popular rock groups of the late 1960's. By Peter Keepnews. [New York Times: Arts]
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Limits Sought on Wireless Internet Access. The Defense Department is seeking new limits on wireless Internet access, arguing that it could interfere with military radar. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]
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New Premise in Science: Get the Word Out Quickly, Online. A group of prominent scientists is challenging the leading scientific journals with the creation of two peer-reviewed online journals this week. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]
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DaveNet: Lott tripped by bloggers? [Scripting News]
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Slow down and smell the onions
By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- Since everyone seems to be writing about reading these days, I feel I should point out that I often read with swim goggles on. Not that I swim very much, although with the polar ice cap melting that could change. I wear swim goggles when I'm chopping onions. I do so because when I'm cooking I find it difficult to refill my wine glass with my eyes closed. Locating the stove can also be tricky. As a result, I can often be found in the kitchen, reading a cookbook through a pair of olive oil and butter smudged Speedos. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]
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Good-time guitarist, gourmet [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful has died.
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The papers that cried wolf. Cairo dispatch: Brian Whitaker looks at how the American media is softening up public attitudes to war with Iraq. [Guardian Unlimited]
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M-Audio Intros 7.1-Channel Surround Card
Dec. 13, 2002
-- M-Audio has introduced a new high-definition audio playback card called the Revolution 7.1. The new card offers eight channels (seven plus subwoofer) of 24-bit, 192 kHz audio output on a PCI card and is targeted toward the home theater and gaming markets. It's expected to ship for Mac and WIndows in January.
Read more [Digital Pro Sound News]
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THE AVALANCHE CONTINUES

Our critics have listened to great music all year, and now they tackle some CDs that almost got away
-- When CDs replaced the long-playing record, music moved out from under the tree and into the sock -- a new stocking-stuffer born. It is quite an amazing thing, these little bundles of melodia, and while the packages got smaller, the noise got bigger, in numbers so prolific as to overwhelm the space we have to critique them. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Includes reviews of 2 CDs I worked on.
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