Tuesday, 21 January 2003
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US gone mad. Sunday Times: "Bush has an arm-lock on God. And God has very particular political opinions. God appointed America to save the world in any way that suits America. God appointed Israel to be the nexus of America's Middle Eastern policy, and anyone who wants to mess with that idea is a) anti-Semitic, b) anti-American, c) with the enemy, and d) a terrorist." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
I wish everyone would read this article. Powerful stuff. I read it in the Globe last Saturday.
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'Friendly fire' hearing told waiting just seconds might have saved lives of Canadian soldiers
The U.S. military hearing into the accidental bombing of Canadian
soldiers in Afghanistan heard Monday that if the two F-16 pilots would
have waited just seconds longer, the four Canadians who were killed
would still be alive.
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
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Mexico asks court to stop US executions. Mexico brings a case to the International Court of Justice to prevent the US from executing dozens of Mexicans being held on death row. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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ProSoundNews Online Daily - DTS Presents Surround Music Awards 'The winners in the two DTS-sponsored categories of the Surround Music Awards have been announced. The winner for Best New 5.1 Mix went to Steve Parr of Hear No Evil for his production of track from a U.K. group called the Orchestra, while the Best New 5.1 Composition award went to Alexandr Jero of Surround Records for his composition entitled, Space or Dream of Life.'
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Film's unsung hero

The art of sound-effects is named after a movie pioneer who never got screen recognition for his work. Today's foley artists make the credit roll, but they're just as invisible [The Globe and Mail: Arts]Check it out. A mainstream newspaper article on sound effects in movies and the people who create them. Not very well written but it's hard to complain when someone brings attention to those of us who toil in the world of audio.
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Distilling the Music of Poetry. For 50 years Anthony Hecht, that epitome of Formalism in poetry, has been a bulwark against the invasion of contemporary poetry by the undisciplined. By Dinitia Smith. [New York Times: Arts]
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HyperJeff has updated its list of native Mac OS X software,
which organizes products into several categories [Macintouch]
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Peace goes mainstream. In frigid conditions, thousands -- from 30,000 to 200,000, depending on the source -- show up in Washington, and Middle America outnumbers the radical fringe. [Salon.com] Excellent. Congrats to all. There was a big protest here in TO. I'll try to make the next one. I didn't find out about this one until it had started.
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Add text highlights to printed Safari pages [Mac OS X Hints]
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Drag brushed metal windows with any metallic part [Mac OS X Hints]
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Researchers translate DNA code as music. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
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