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Wow. Big news. Good luck Dave. Go UserLand. .< 2:08:39 AM  >Canadian peace activists return from Iraq 
A group of Canadians who have been in Iraq for several weeks returned on Tuesday, bringing back a clearer idea of what life is like for the people who live there. [CBC News] .< 2:01:18 AM >Half a Million Afghan Refugees Left Homeless and Cold in Cities. The urban poor made homeless by war in Afghanistan have fallen through the aid net and face the freezing winter with completely inadequate shelter. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 1:58:43 AM >Book Excerpt: Good Color Practice, Pt. 3. 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. From glasshaus. 1216 [WebReference News] .< 1:55:19 AM >Tales From Detroit's Other Industry. Gerald Posner's gossipy new book is about the recording empire where the blues weren't just in the songs. By Janet Maslin. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:50:25 AM >A Piano That Runs Hot and Cold to Keep Itself in Tune. The author of a book about piano technology is developing a prototype of the self-tuning piano. By Ian Austen. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:44:45 AM >Mastering 88 Keys Con (Digital) Brio: "If Ms. Bernstein is enthusiastic about the Music Tutor, her teacher, Nancy Parent, is positively fervent. Trained as a classical pianist, Ms. Parent had been skeptical about electronic aids for years. Her doubts faded when she attended a workshop on the Music Tutor in 2001. "I thought it was just going to be a big sales thing," she recalled. "But I was amazed. I saw immediately what this could do."" .< 1:33:06 AM >Top 10 web design worsts of 2002. Jakob Nielsen, a usability expert whose opinions are usually sound, has published a nice article listing his top ten list... [PlaybackTime] .< 1:26:49 AM >Books: Interview with Annie Proulx. Books: Duncan Campbell visits novelist Annie Proulx in the wilds of Wyoming. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:26:02 AM >Seoul calls for help in Korean stand-off. World: South Korea has begun an intensive diplomatic effort to try to avert a nuclear stand-off between North Korea and its closest ally, the United States. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:00:53 AM >Companies in U.S. Sing Blues as Europe Reprises 50's Hits: "Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in European Union countries, compared with 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America. So recordings made in the early- to mid-1950's " |
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