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Guess who recorded those tracks? Glyn Johns! More discussion. .< 9:52:40 PM  >5.1 Production Services Does Quick Turnaround on Nora Jones DVD Read more .< 9:51:25 PM >Pro Tools 6.0 Plug-in Compatibility Chart for OS X Online Read more .< 3:50:51 PM >Doubts mount over Iraq resolution Speculation grows that the US and its allies will stop seeking a fresh UN resolution on Iraq before starting a war. .< 3:50:33 PM >Oldest human footprints found Italian scientists find three human footprint trails that were made 350,000 years ago. .< 3:46:21 PM >BBC NEWS | Business | World markets fall ' Traders blamed the falls in Europe on poor corporate news, high oil prices, and the ever-present fears of war against Iraq. Political moves on Wednesday were seen as heightening the risk of a lone US campaign against Iraq. "It increasingly seems that the US is going to go it alone, which is the least desirable outcome," said Rupert Thompson, global strategist at independent brokerage E*trade.' Keep it up Geroge. You'll bring us all down with you. .< 3:34:52 PM >Growing Number in U.S. Back War, Survey Finds 'At the same time, there was evidence that many Americans remain perplexed about what Mr. Bush is doing and why he is doing it. While Mr. Bush says his main goal is disarming Iraq, Americans are more likely to say he is motivated by a desire to oust Mr. Hussein from power. A majority of Americans say the White House has failed to tell them what they need to know about the justification for a pre-emptive attack.' .< 1:20:17 PM >Honoring Rock's Past, Talking of Here and Now The Clash, the Police, and Elvis Costello were some of the bands newly inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Uh oh. I'm getting old. Artists I grew up with are entering the Hall of Fame. These are three of my favourites. .< 1:17:40 PM >Europe finds MS guilty, but wonders what to do about it Have we been here before? .< 1:10:58 PM >Replace text with icons on Safari's bookmark bar .< 12:52:55 PM >Asya Schween - My Own Self: Digital Photography Review 'Asya's haunting, beautiful and inspiring self-portrature is the perfect example of how digital photography aides the rapid realization of your own photography skills. Asya's work stands as testimony that many who consider themselves amateur photographers have far more inside them.' .< 12:48:41 PM >"threatened to fire on the satellite uplink... The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned." [Daypop Top 40] .< 11:37:36 AM >CBC News: Serbian prime minister assassinated 'After leading the popular revolt that toppled former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, Djindjic played a key role in sending Milosevic to the Hague, where he is on trial before the UN War Crimes Tribunal.' .< 11:36:23 AM >
Britain has set out the conditions that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein must meet to avoid war. I don't think the 'the war party' will be very happy with this. .< 11:33:31 AM >Commentary: Macromedia lacks common sense The dizzying new design of Macromedia's Web site has more fundamental problems than its incompatibility with Apple's Safari browser. [CNET News.com] .< 1:52:27 AM >The Globe and Mail: John Ralston Saul on the genius of the Canadian experiment The genius of the Canadian experiment is our embrace of a non-monolithic society, says JOHN RALSTON SAUL. It is never more important than in times of war .< 1:48:40 AM >Fujifilm FinePix A310 Zoom 0530 GMT: Fujifilm has today announced the new FinePix A310 Zoom, the second camera to be based on Fujifilm's fourth generation SuperCCD HR (High Resolution) sensor. The A310 has a three million pixel sensor... .< 1:32:38 AM >Got a (Legal) Concert Recording? Pass It On MUSIC fans are keeping a venerable tradition of the 1960's alive: following their favorite bands around the country, making recordings of concerts, and trading those recordings. .< 1:31:25 AM >Congress Clings to a Pager Made in Canada American lawmakers have an affinity for Canadian BlackBerrys, the popular e-mail devices made by a Waterloo, Ontario-based company. .< 1:30:40 AM >AOL in Talks to Sell CD-DVD Maker AOL Time Warner is in talks about selling the CD and DVD manufacturing business of its Warner Music division. .< 1:22:40 AM >TidBITS: Scripting the Unscriptable in Mac OS X 'Any user can write a script that can access the interface elements of any program. Any user can script an unscriptable program, using AppleScript! You wouldn't need any special macro program, because AppleScript itself, which is already on your computer, would become a macro language.' .< 1:12:29 AM >Antiwar Song, With Whimsy With no advance fanfare he Beastie Boys released "In a World Gone Mad," an anti-war single, on their Web site. .< 1:05:35 AM >No. 1 with a bullet Darryl Worley's hot new country single "Have You Forgotten?" plumbs a new low in post-9/11 pop, arguing that to avenge terror we must attack Iraq. .< 1:04:49 AM >Salon.com News | Bush vs. Bush 'The coming Iraq war represents the president's ultimate rebellion against his father' .< 1:00:38 AM >The Cost of War David Charter of the Times Online reports on George Allison being hired to construct a $200,000 set for General Tommy Franks to hold briefings on during the war that is still officially not imminent. According to the article, the shipping alone cost $47,000. Inside, some other costs associated with war. [Kuro5hin.org] .< 12:59:21 AM >MacNN | News: PowerBooks used in Middle East for reporting 'Chicago Tribune's 24 TV stations, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC.com and Newsweek magazine have joined television news organizations who are equipping reporters and producers in the field with Apple's PowerBook laptop, loaded with Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software and Sorenson Squeeze 3 compression software to send audio, video, and still photos back to their home bases via satellite videophones." ' The right tools for the job. .< 12:52:42 AM >Three and a half-year old SETI@home project identifies candidate radio signals from space, heads for Arecibo to take second look | SpaceRef 'After more than a million years of computation by more than 4 million computers worldwide, the SETI@home screensaver that crunches data in search of intelligent signals from space has produced a list of candidate radio sources that deserve a second look.' .< 12:22:35 AM >Unions warn of mass Labour revolt Politics: Union leaders have warned Tony Blair that he will be deserted by the labour movement if he goes ahead with a war in Iraq without a second security council resolution. [Guardian Unlimited] |
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