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A solid review with a bunch of good tips thrown in. Worth the read. .< 11:47:43 PM  >iMovie, Take 3 (03-Feb-2003; 5.4K) [TidBITS] .< 11:45:52 PM >MS in talks with Apple to avoid court battle [The Macintosh News Network] .< 11:45:21 PM >Five hunters die in boating accident in Newfoundland 
Searchers in Newfoundland have found the bodies of five men who drowned off Musgrave Harbour early Monday morning. A sixth person in the hunting party survived. [CBC News] .< 11:35:54 PM >Pro Tools 6.0 Released Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 11:18:45 PM >Memo warned of shuttle damage. Nasa was warned over shuttle's heat protection two days before disaster. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 11:02:06 PM >"If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines" [Daypop Top 40] .< 10:35:07 PM >MacResQ offers PowerBook service to Canada [The Macintosh News Network] .< 10:34:56 PM >U.S. foes show sorrow over catastrophe "It is a very sad event," said Ali Jabur Khassem, who ekes out a living reselling canned milk and baby formula originally purchased under Baghdad's U. N.-mandated "oil-for-food" program. "What we hate is the American administration, not these astronauts. For them, we feel respect." .< 10:32:04 PM >Photos show odd images near shuttle 'The pictures, taken with a Nikon-880 digital camera on a tripod, reveal what appear to be bright electrical phenomena flashing around the track of the shuttle's passage' .< 9:33:21 PM >Phil Spector, Music Producer, Held in Shooting. Legendary record producer Phil Spector was detained on Monday in connection with the shooting death of a woman at a house in a suburb of Los Angeles. [New York Times: Arts] Sad news. .< 6:43:08 PM >School resumes under cloud of grief
Students returned to an Alberta private school on Monday under a cloud of grief over the deaths of seven students in a weekend avalanche. [CBC News] .< 5:12:23 PM >Janis Ian: "Don't sever a high-tech lifeline for musicians". Recently, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that Verizon must give the RIAA the name of... [PlaybackTime] .< 3:48:36 PM >Where art is good medicine FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 3:46:26 PM >No arts money? Then where's Glenn Gould Street? By DAVID MACFARLANE FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 3:45:17 PM >Can Grit Director Jerry Ciccoritti tells RAY CONLOGUE that his latest TV crime thriller, Chasing Cain II: Face, shows 'a portrait of Toronto that has never been seen before' -- Watching Jerry Ciccoritti's homicide thriller Chasing Cain, which is set in Toronto, is a subversive thrill. We've seen police cars scorching down Toronto's streets before, but they usually have Chicago Police or Denver Sheriff's Dept. painted on the doors. This time it's actually Toronto cops on duty, and Toronto -- bless it -- has finally come out of the closet. Mom, dad -- I'm Toronto. Accept me as I am. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 3:41:51 PM >Russell Beattie Notebook 'CNN has turned into "All Crisis. All the Time." As is MSNBC and FoxNews. These channels use the hype they create to bump up viewership and advertising dollars. It's in their best interests to blow up any event into a national disaster. They're no better than Hearst running the fake-picture of The Maine being blown up and starting the Spanish-American war. Actually, in today's nuclear world it's worse. The people in the U.S. are becoming war-mongering, xenophobic psychos because every day they are bombarded with images of war, terrorism and disaster.' Not only that, they have a leader who plays on the fear his obdient press peddles. This is an excellent rant. .< 3:39:39 PM >Digital Music Fans Get a Break in Europe: The European Commission has presented a draft directive that punishes copyright infringement for commercial purposes, but leaves the home music downloader untouched, infuriating the entertainment industry. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 3:38:13 PM >A bad case of DVD rot eats into movie collections - smh.com.au [Daypop Top 40] 'The failures are a combination of corrosion - known as "DVD rot" - and delamination, where the layers of the disc separate. Symptoms of the rot include picture break-up and freezing at a specific place on the disk. The main cause is believed to be poorly designed cases. Delamination shows up as a coffee-like stain that prevents the disc from playing.' .< 3:23:24 PM >TIME.com: The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped It's costly, outmoded, impractical and, as we've learned again, deadly .< 3:21:31 PM >Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Nasa chiefs 'repeatedly ignored' safety warnings 'In a letter to the White House, Don Nelson, who served with Nasa for 36 years until he retired in 1999, wrote to President George W. Bush warning that his 'intervention' was necessary to 'prevent another catastrophic space shuttle accident'. ' Arrogance? .< 3:18:31 PM >The Guy in That Canadian Film Sounds Like a Noo Yawka, Eh?. So many New York movies are being made in Canada that David Schaap, a New York transplant, works as a dialect coach helping Canadian actors pass for New Yorkers. [New York Times: Arts] "Canadians have upward inflections at the end of sentences and stress different syllables. You can really hear the difference in words like mobile, resource, adult and contributed. Canadians stress the first syllable, making the word sound longer." A fascinating article about the differences between how Canucks and Americans speak. .< 3:11:30 PM >Sirius Tries to Sell Pay Radio. Sirius Satellite Radio is starting a campaign intended to remind music lovers of the annoying things they can turn off by turning Sirius on. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:02:24 PM >Turning a Digital Database Into Local Radio '"Most Requested" has been on the air for nearly two years, but only recently have people not directly involved in the program become aware of the extent to which technology is allowing Mr. Daly to cozy up to local listeners. Radio experts say the program involves perhaps the most extensive use yet of digital audio processing to offer localized shows from a central location. And members of a major broadcasting union are investigating to determine whether the techniques violate local labor agreements.' .< 2:58:30 PM >TheStar.com - Marketing a maestro 'As Forrester explains with a shrug: "We'll do whatever we have to do to get Peter's face on camera." Instead of throwing a hissy fit and insisting that he's an artist, not a salesman, Oundjian quips: "Well, you can't be an artiste in an empty hall."' .< 12:40:55 PM >Scroll left and right via scrollwheel in iPhoto2 [Mac OS X Hints] .< 12:40:08 PM >Zoom more accurately with iPhoto2 [Mac OS X Hints] .< 12:39:41 PM >Drag and drop to create albums in iPhoto2 [Mac OS X Hints] .< 11:15:23 AM >Bush plans huge military boost. US President George W Bush is to propose increasing American defence spending to almost $500bn a year by the end of the decade. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 11:14:23 AM >The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm: The Sapphire Worm was the fastest computer worm in history. As it began spreading throughout the Internet, it doubled in size every 8.5 seconds. It infected more than 90 percent of vulnerable hosts within 10 minutes. It looks like nobody is safe. Even if you don't use any Microsoft application or OS, you can still be put off-line by badwidth saturation. Whew... [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Another cost of allowing a monopoly to develop. .< 11:12:43 AM >Safari browser has fast adoption rate [The Macintosh News Network] .< 11:12:14 AM >Week of funerals for Alberta high school
An Alberta private school known for its outdoor sports program is mourning the death of seven of its students in an avalanche Saturday. [CBC News] |
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