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MTV. What a pathetic brand. .< 10:15:05 PM  >Beyond the CD: A Bid to Burnish Records' Sheen Discs with remastered, high-resolution digital sound many times the quality of regular CD's are going to become increasingly prominent in record stores. [New York Times: Arts] At last. The word is getting out. The music industry may finally be waking up to the high resolution surround sound carrier. Let's do this! .< 9:46:47 PM >What are you looking at? This morning a friend of mine, Luca Reginato, who works at SrLabs in Padova sent me this very cool movie. Using a technology that they are developing, he tracked his eyes movements while browsing my weblog. The blue spot you will see in the movie shows where he is looking, the larger the spot becomes, the longer he has been looking at a specific item. It's really amazing. While today these services are available mainly to large companies (with large budgets), I'm trying to convince Luca that such a service made available at affordable prices would not only make sense, but be profitable. How much would you pay to have this kind of feed-back on a site you are designing or that you already have? [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Pretty frickin cool! .< 8:52:18 PM >The antiwar sampler Download a selection of the new protest songs from the Beastie Boys, Ani DiFranco, John Mellencamp, Chumbawamba and others. [Salon] .< 3:11:41 PM >Feedster Feedster is a search engine that indexes RSS feeds. I like it! [Ranchero.com] .< 12:37:56 PM >The war dividend Comment: Washington's apparent plans for remaking Iraq provide nagging doubts about what will come after the shooting stops, says Randeep Ramesh. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:37:45 PM >Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Cheney is still paid by Pentagon contractor 'Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.' .< 12:33:31 PM >A Fiscal Train Wreck 'But the conclusion is inescapable. Without the Bush tax cuts, it would have been difficult to cope with the fiscal implications of an aging population. With those tax cuts, the task is simply impossible. The accident ? the fiscal train wreck ? is already under way.' .< 12:27:59 PM >Select all in a text field with one mouse click [macosxhints] .< 12:25:55 PM >Give your battery a thorough checkup [macosxhints] .< 12:10:45 PM >Show more data in the Finder's column view mode [macosxhints] .< 12:05:11 PM >Faces of Fear and Hate, Caught in a Photograph Paul Hendrickson uses a single photograph as a tool to investigate the integration of the University of Mississippi and its consequences. [New York Times: Arts] .< 11:57:34 AM >Officials won't confirm shutdown of Pickering plant 
Officials at Ontario Power Generation are refusing to say whether the Pickering nuclear plant was shut down Wednesday night because of a water leak. [CBC News] .< 11:56:46 AM >BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Analysis: Fog of diplomacy ' Mr Rumsfeld managed in passing to dismiss the whole British military effort with his remark that there would be "workarounds", a statement of fact given that the US does not need the British there militarily. But such candour is not helpful to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has invested so much in sending a third of his armed forces to the Gulf.' .< 1:42:21 AM >Billions lost since 'axis of evil' speech Money: Millions of small investors have seen their pensions, endowments and shareholdings caught in the crossfire of President George Bush's war against terrorism. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:41:25 AM >PM stakes all on US alliance UK will join war without UN backing. [Guardian Unlimited] Ouch. Blair is melting down. The strain is very clearly visible. I'd say he's barely slept in a week. .< 1:37:06 AM >NYPress - Cage Match - Matt Taibbi 'After watching George W. Bush?s press conference last Thursday night, I?m more convinced than ever: The entire White House press corps should be herded into a cargo plane, flown to an altitude of 30,000 feet, and pushed out, kicking and screaming, over the North Atlantic.' .< 1:26:19 AM >BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Analysis: Fog of diplomacy ' Mr Rumsfeld managed in passing to dismiss the whole British military effort with his remark that there would be "workarounds", a statement of fact given that the US does not need the British there militarily. But such candour is not helpful to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has invested so much in sending a third of his armed forces to the Gulf.' .< 1:18:32 AM >US castigates France over Iraq Washington launches an unusually barbed attack on France over its refusal to back military action. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 1:04:09 AM >Natalie Merchant, No Strings Attached After 17 years with Elektra Records, Natalie Merchant stepped off the pop treadmill and decided to release her new album on her own label. .< 12:58:28 AM >Latest Web Article Norman Lebrecht bemoans the Classical Brit and the Royal Philharmonic Society. .< 12:54:11 AM >Chrétien promises millions for bilingualism 
Calling it "part of the Canadian personality," the prime minister announced the federal government will spend $751 million over the next five years to increase bilingualism in Canada. [CBC News] .< 12:53:18 AM >Britain offers new Iraq proposal as U.S. continues diplomatic initiative
At the United Nations, lobbying on both sides of the Iraq question is continuing, with the U.S. suggesting it is closer to winning over some of the undecided, and Britain offering a new proposal. .< 12:48:41 AM >Coalition of the billing -- or unwilling? The Bush administration is lavishing billions of dollars on potential allies at the U.N. Strangely, it isn't working. |
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