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I just checked the Juno Awards web site and I see that we (CBC Records) won a Juno. James Ehnes does it again. [Canuck] .< 3:19:28 AM  >Personal Technology -- Personal Technology from The Wall Street Journal. 'The most striking thing about the 17-inch PowerBook, after the screen itself, is how brilliantly Apple managed to shrink the size of the machine built around that big display. Sure, the PowerBook is an unusually wide 15.4 inches, but it's only one inch thick. Yet, it feels solid as a rock. It's just 10.2 inches deep and weighs only 6.8 pounds.
To get an idea of how sleek those dimensions are, compare the new PowerBook with another brand-new laptop, Dell's Latitude D800. This model also boasts a widescreen display, measuring 15.4 inches diagonally. But, even though the Dell has a significantly smaller screen, it looks like a whale next to the 17-inch PowerBook.' Digidesign Updates Pro Tools 6 .< 3:10:43 AM >Listening to Walls and Ceilings Instead of Music Music critics should be banned from reviewing acoustics. It's none of their business, and it takes their minds off what really is their business. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:05:01 AM >Found: Shostakovich's Long-Lost Twin Brother Although Gavril Popov's and Dmitri Shostakovich's career paths began the same way, Gavril Popov's music was lost to time and history. That is, until now. [New York Times: Arts] .< 3:03:23 AM >CBC News: Peace protesters slam U.S. ambassador 'Thousands of Canadians held more rallies against the war in Iraq Saturday, denouncing violence and condemning recent comments by U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci.' Right on .< 3:00:24 AM >CBC News: SARS death toll, fears rise in Ontario 'An eighth person has died of SARS in the Toronto area, and health officials warned Saturday that the struggle to contain the outbreak may have been dealt a setback.' .< 1:58:22 AM >CBC News: Storm cancels Toronto flights for second day ' The airport had used its entire 700,000-litre supply of glycol, usually enough for 30 days during the winter. Three truckloads of the de-icing fluide arrived Saturday and the airport is waiting for more. Thousands of passengers have been stranded by a storm that dumped freezing rain on southern Ontario. More than 400 flights have been cancelled since midday Friday.' The train back from Montreal is usually very quiet on Sat evening but tonight is was packed. I sat with a fellow who'd been trying to get back to Winnipeg. The earliest flight he could get was Tues morning. He was taking the train to TO, a bus to the airpot, a rental car to Hamilton and flying home from there! .< 1:50:39 AM >Vials 'not chemical weapons' First tests of a white powder found at a complex near Baghdad do not suggest the presence of chemical weapons, US officials say. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] The yanks are pretty desperate to find evidence of their rationalization for going to war. .< 1:48:49 AM >Viewing the War as a Lesson to the World 'For a year now, the president and many in his team have privately described the confrontation with Saddam Hussein as something of a demonstration conflict, an experiment in forcible disarmament. It is also the first war conducted under a new national security strategy, which explicitly calls for intervening before a potential enemy can strike.' .< 1:45:10 AM >War opponents voice concerns France, Germany and Russia call for humanitarian issues to be addressed in Iraq and for a central role for the UN. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 1:40:42 AM >New Signs of Terror Not Evident A protracted American presence in Iraq after the war could stir violence against American interests around the globe. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Duh .< 1:39:11 AM >Allies' New Test: How to Define Victory As American troops enter Baghdad, the relevant question seems to be how the U.S. and its allies will know when they have won the war. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] .< 1:38:11 AM >Barrage of Fire, Trail of Death A three-hour raid by sixty American tanks through Baghdad was a blur of bullets and explosions with an estimated 1,000 Iraqis killed. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] .< 1:36:18 AM >US begins 'regime change' The US is ready to install the first leg of an interim government for the new Iraq as early as Tuesday. [Guardian Unlimited] I just watched a CBC report on the rage swelling in Arab countries over this war. If Dubbya thinks he's going to bring peace to the middle east he's got another think coming. Actually I don't think he really cares. .< 1:29:51 AM >Cannabis 'link to schizophrenia rise' UK: Softer drugs law blamed for risk of mental illness as users aim to get heavily 'stoned'. [Guardian Unlimited] ''Modern cannabis is nearly 10 times the strength the "flower power" generation was used to, and in Amsterdam it is at least twice as strong as in the UK,' he said. 'We know that for those who take the drug there is a fourfold increase in schizophrenia and a fourfold increase in the chances of suffering major depressive illness.'Not my dad's pot? First I've heard of the connection to schizophrenia. .< 1:29:04 AM >North Korea and the US 'on a slide towards conflict' World: War in North Korea is now almost inevitable, a senior UN official claims. [Guardian Unlimited] |
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