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Pretty freakin' cool. Your cell phone controls your Mac. Mind you, that's a pretty expensive remote you're weilding! .< 11:25:35 PM  >Blix calls Iraqi decision 'significant disarmament' 
Destroying the Al Samoud 2 missiles would be a large step down the path to disarming Iraq, Hans Blix said on Friday, but it's a step the Iraqis are reluctant to take. [CBC News] .< 10:06:19 PM >"An introduction to weblog terms for weblog readers" [Daypop Top 40] There are also some links to good articles explaining what a weblog is. .< 7:12:00 PM >CBC News: Removing Saddam a dangerous move: Chrétien '"If you start changing the regime, where do you stop, who is next?" Chrétien said to reporters. "It is disarmament we are talking about." Chrétien was responding to a report that Washington wants to use a possible war with Iraq as a way of replacing Saddam, rather than just disarming him.' .< 11:20:26 AM >Canon EOS-10D - the improved D60. Pre-PMA 2003, 14:00 GMT: Canon has today announced the new six megapixel EOS-10D digital SLR. The EOS-10D is the direct successor to the popular EOS-D60 digital SLR, just like the D60 the 10D utilizes a six... [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)] .< 2:49:00 AM >Winning trade centre design stirs pride of New Yorkers. Arts: New York mayor hails Daniel Libeskind's winning design to restore lower Manhattan "to its rightful place in the world". [Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:48:24 AM >A Friend in the Neighborhood. To some, Mr. Rogers was more than a face on television - he was a friend, a mentor, and maybe even a saint. [New York Times: Arts] .< 2:48:12 AM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | UK taxpayers forced to pay millions for Iraq arms 'The government has secretly written cheques totalling more than £33m for arms companies who supplied Saddam Hussein in the 1980s. The files on these disastrous insurance deals have been locked up for 12 years since they were secretly authorised by Margaret Thatcher. The total loss to the taxpayer on military and civil credit sales her administration carried out with Iraq now exceeds £1bn.' Brilliant. .< 2:41:14 AM >Angry U.S. response to 'American bastards' comment For the second time in three months a CBC News Online story has provoked hundreds of mostly angry e-mails from the United States. [CBC News] .< 2:40:35 AM >Service Keeps Music Files Humming. MusicBrainz, a free, open-source, community-run service, offers music fans with huge collections of digital song files a way to clean up the data associated with those tracks -- artist, song title and so on. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] .< 2:33:25 AM >David Davies: Mobile blogging how-to guide. [Scripting News] .< 2:31:14 AM >Sea King crashes on Canadian warship
A Sea King helicopter slammed into the deck of HMCS Iroquois Thursday, damaging the warship and forcing it to return to port. [CBC News] I hate when that happens. .< 2:27:59 AM >Scroll pages with the space bar. Don't know if you've run this already, it seems very very basic (but I never actually noticed it before). You can page down by hitting the space bar and page up by using shift space bar. It works in Safari, Mail, OmniWeb, etc... [macosxhints] I did not know this! .< 2:27:02 AM >Jump to non-hyperlinked URLs in Safari. In Sarafi, highlight an URL, NOT a hyperlink but a URL in plain text. Control-click or right-click on the highlighted URL. The contextual menu lists three commands: "Go to Address," "Copy," and "Google Search." [macosxhints] .< 2:22:42 AM >TerraTec Creates New Division for Professional Audio Cards and I/O Solutions Read more [Digital Pro Sound News] .< 2:07:58 AM >IBM announces PPC 970 at 2.5GHz [The Macintosh News Network] Yeah baby! .< 2:01:23 AM >Newsweek: Blogman Becomes Harvardman. Heh. [Scripting News] Nice. I've been reading Dave's writing since he started what was probably the first weblog. Sometimes infuriating, but definitely an inspiring guy. .< 1:40:42 AM >'Perdition,' With Its Ghosts. A fine DVD released this week shows the real strengths of "Road to Perdition" are in the film's art direction, cinematography, sound, sound editing and original score. [New York Times: Arts] 'Sound is vital, and so is the lack of it.' .< 1:35:23 AM >ProSoundNews Online Daily - Lexicon Unveils Processor 'Lexicon has unveiled the MPX 550, a true stereo dual-channel processor featuring 24-bit A/D and D/A conversion and 24-bit internal processing.' Weird! I wondered if the date on this press release wasn't actually 1998. Then it would have been news. .< 1:32:29 AM >"Bush: New Iraq Will Pave Way For Peace in Region (washingtonpost.com)" [Daypop Top 40] Someone said 'George, we gotta try another approach if we're gonna sell this thing.' So he started talking about democracy, freedom and peace. The guy's just spewing a new pile of lies. They don't get it. The problem is not the tough war talk. The problem is Bush has not credibility. |
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