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One of my favourite stories is about a contest The New Republic once held in which it's readers were to come up with the most boring headline possible. The winner? 'Worthwhile Canadian Initiative' .< 6:34:55 PM  >Pro Sound News Online Daily - AES Standards Committee Proposes Revision to AES10 'The AES Standards Committee (AESSC) has released a call for comment on the revision of Standard AES10-1991, which describes the data organization for a multichannel audio digital interface designed for the serial transfer of digital multichannel audio.' .< 6:33:06 PM >ProSoundNews Online Daily - European AES Convention Program Set 'The European 114th AES Convention, taking place March 22-25 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will prove to be a sound investment for those audio professionals convening at the RAI Convention Centre. The convention program includes events that will appeal to exhibitors, engineers and scientists, as well as members of the recording, broadcasting and sound reinforcement communities.' .< 6:31:31 PM >ProSoundNews Online Daily - Jones, Mardin Grab Top Grammys A list of the engineers and producers who won Grammys this year. .< 6:28:43 PM >Pro Sound News Online Daily - C.A.S. Announces Sound Mixing Awards Nominations No music category . . . yet. .< 6:19:30 PM >AOL Offering Music Catalog for Downloads. America Online's new system for downloading music is the strongest attempt yet to create a rival to free music-trading sites. [New York Times: Technology] .< 6:14:53 PM >NASA engineers warned of major problems a day before Columbia tragedy Senior NASA engineers warned that the space shuttle Columbia's left wing might burn off leading to the death of the crew a full day before the disaster that killed all seven astronauts on Feb. 1. [CBC News] .< 6:02:27 PM >Argument 'Indeed, reading a new CNN document, "Reminder of Script Approval Policy", fairly takes the breath away. "All reporters preparing package scripts must submit the scripts for approval," it says. "Packages may not be edited until the scripts are approved... All packages originating outside Washington, LA (Los Angeles) or NY (New York), including all international bureaus, must come to the ROW in Atlanta for approval."' The article includes an example of a story which showed the Israelis in a bad light which was not approved until a lie was built into the script to make them look better. .< 5:55:28 PM >"How evil are you ?" [Daypop Top 40] It says here that I am 'good'. I was about to abort the thing when I saw 'Canada' listed as an option under 'Favourite European Nation' but then I figured it was probably a joke. Then I noticed it was also an option under 'Choose your weapon'. .< 3:05:38 PM >"Virtual March on Washington" [Daypop Top 40] .< 11:56:49 AM >Change iPhoto2's roll date display format. With the introduction iPhoto 2 I was a little frustrated to note that the Rolls date format used in the Photo Library was set at MM/DD/YY and does not use the default system format.
This hint will thus give a brief and simpl... [macosxhints]
"This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] I always felt from their writing that the Engst's would make fine Canucks. .< 2:14:22 AM >.Mac Upgrades & Goodies (24-Feb-2003; 1.3K) [TidBITS] .< 2:10:26 AM >Now I know for a fact that Ashcroft is crazy. With all the problems in the world, they go after people who sell hash pipes and bongs. Geez Louise. [Scripting News] .< 2:08:13 AM >Matt Brown of Macromedia shows how to use Dreamweaver with Radio, thanks to Paolo and eVectors. "Blogging is cool," says Matt. [Scripting News] .< 2:06:00 AM >Apple aims to boost market share [The Macintosh News Network] .< 1:57:29 AM >[15:00 ET] Bare Bones Software released TextWrangler, a $49 general purpose text editor and programmer's editor for Mac OS X and Mac OS 9. [See comparison with BBEdit.] TextWrangler is $49 for Mac OS X 10.1.5 and up and Mac OS 9.1 and up. Bare Bones also announced today the discontinuation of BBEdit Lite, its freeware text editor [Macintouch] .< 1:54:44 AM >SonyEricsson P800 survives the hype, and some [The Register] 'My fellow Macintosh users should be particularly pleased with the P800, as it feels exactly like the kind of phone you could expect Apple to make itself.' Hmmm. Looks like a major geek gadget. Must think of ways to rationalize this. Well, I'm almost in the market for a new phone and a pda. Here they are. All in one. .< 1:39:50 AM >Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented. With the online swapping of songs growing at a crippling rate, the CD is being rethought, repackaged and, in some cases, repriced. [New York Times: Technology] I don't buy the explanation for why a hi res carrier didn't take off. The industry didn't invest in launching the new formats. Of course having two formats was a disastrous move. .< 1:32:54 AM >I was just about to write something about mirosoft's total domination of lameness with their new product Three Degrees, when Yoz Grahame came running to answer the door. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] 'It's part of a worrying trend MS have been displaying recently that I'll call (for want of something wittier) feature-creep-away. Version 7.0 of Windows Media Player (a.k.a The Huge Blue Useless One) removed the ability to install .mov support. Now the latest version has removed streaming MP3 and AVI support (i.e. play during download). The lockdown has started. It's more than just "Trusted Computing"; they're trying to be Apple '90.' It's a hilarious review. This person is funny. .mov files, by the way, are QuickTime files and QuickTime is a format Apple developed. .< 1:23:36 AM >Microsoft tries to weaken spam law. Washington State's anti-spam law, one of the strongest anywhere, might be weakened because of Microsoft. [GlennLog] .< 1:19:39 AM >Mugabe: US must disarm. The United States should lead by example and destroy its weapons of mass destruction, says Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 1:16:38 AM >Designing Surround Sound. Ron MacLeod has seen all sides of audio, from designing his own instruments to performing with bands. In recent years he's helped develop software surround sound tools and provided expertise on surround mixing and encoding for film, music and DVDs. [Feb 21] [Apple Hot News] .< 1:14:17 AM >Apple's Internet Developer site reviews JavaScript in Mac browsers, running a test suite of seven scripts on Explorer 5.2, iCab Preview 2.8.2, Mozilla 1.2.1, OmniWeb 4.1, Opera 6.0 and Safari 1.0 beta [Macintouch] .< 12:41:00 AM >"They Blog, You Blog, iBlog" [Daypop Top 40] A sort of review of blogging tools for OS X. .< 12:17:55 AM >Threats, Promises and Lies 'But the rest of the world simply doesn't trust Mr. Bush either to honor his promises or to tell the truth. Can we run a foreign policy in the absence of trust? The administration apparently thinks it can use threats as a substitute.' A properly righteous rant about what I've been going on about for some time here: Bush has no credibility. |
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