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The better to bomb your allies with. .< 11:12:13 PM  >iLife will create home video 'revolution' [The Macintosh News Network] .< 11:11:27 PM >Canada to follow UN in Iraq policy 
Canada will always operate under the auspices of the United Nations, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said on Monday, a day after his predecessor accused him of being juvenile in his foreign policy. [CBC News] .< 11:06:38 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Madonna video to blast Bush stance on Iraq 'American gossip writer Matt Drudge reports that the clip will contain scenes of dismembered Iraqi men and women and wounded Iraqi babies and children.' .< 11:04:32 PM >Newsday: "This absence of youth has been blamed for shrinking circulation at many dailies of as much as 1 percent to 2 percent per year. The average age of a newspaper reader is 53." [RavenX News] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 11:04:07 PM >Digital Needle is a virtual grammaphone open source program that converts scanned--yes, scanned--vinyl records into audio. Rip this! [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] .< 10:01:26 PM >BBC NEWS | Talking Point | Taken a good picture lately? 'BBC News Online wants to report the world from your perspective. And the digital revolution will help us to do that. So, if you have been active with your phone camera, or any other digital camera, send us your pictures.' Looks kinda cool until you read the fine print. 'In contributing to BBC News Online you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media.' Think I'll just put the pics up on my own site, thanks! .< 9:59:37 PM >Avalanche victims mourned by schoolmates, families
Thousands of people gathered in Calgary Monday for an emotional tribute to seven teenaged schoolmates killed in an avalanche. [CBC News] .< 9:58:46 PM >Reyat changes plea to guilty in Air India case
An unexpected twist in the biggest mass murder trial in Canadian history: with just six weeks before the Air India trial was set to begin, one of the accused, Inderjit Singh Reyat, has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter. [CBC News] .< 9:53:40 PM >Pro Sound News Online Daily - AES Advises Librarian of Congress on Selection of Historic Recordings 'As a member of the Board, the Audio Engineering Society (AES) advised the Librarian on his selection. The AES serves as the pivotal force in the exchange and dissemination of technical information for the audio industry. Representing the AES on the Board are Elizabeth Cohen, AES past president; and George Massenburg, renowned recording engineer and producer' .< 9:50:01 PM >Canada sides with U.S. in NATO dispute
Canada is siding with Turkey in the dispute over whether it should be able to boost its defences to prepare for a possible war against Iraq. [CBC News] .< 9:48:59 PM >Whatever happened to the American left?. The left in America was once a powerful force that fought for civil rights. Where is it now? By Gary Younge. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 3:24:51 PM >Biometric ID cards may be needed to cross U.S. border next year
Canadians may soon need new national identity cards if they want to cross the border into the U.S. The cards have been criticized by the privacy commissioner as an invasion of privacy. [CBC News] So much for the world's longest undefended border. .< 3:23:13 PM >BBC NEWS | Entertainment | First notes for 639-year composition 'The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, are being played on a German church organ on Wednesday.' .< 12:20:03 PM >"Bush Wants Secret Arrests" [Daypop Top 40] .< 12:19:29 PM >Drag and drop Flash files directly to iMovie3 [Mac OS X Hints] .< 12:18:31 PM >Wrestling Pi and a tiger onto the screen By SANDRA MARTIN -- So, what do you do with the tiger? That's the first question that comes to mind in the aftermath of last week's announcement that Fox 2000 has bought the film rights to Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel, Life of Pi. The novel is the story of Pi, a teenage boy shipwrecked in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a ravenous, 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] .< 12:16:50 PM >On rethinking the commonplace, by design
By DAVID MACFARLANE
-- When I heard that an exhibition called Re Design: Daily Products of the 21st Century was opening at the Design Exchange in Toronto, I put aside the new CD I'd been trying to open for an hour and a half, and decided to go down to King and Bay and have a look. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] |
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