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In the past few weeks, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, ordered contingency plans for a war on Syria to be reviewed following the fall of Baghdad.' The provocations begin .< 5:14:15 PM  >Clash in Mosul Complicates Already Troubled U.S. Arrival At least 10 Iraqis were reported killed today in what marines called a gun battle and Iraqis described as the shooting of unarmed civilians. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] .< 3:41:32 PM >EE Times: Cryptographers sound warnings on Microsoft security plan. Whitfield Diffie, a distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, said an integrated security scheme for computers is inevitable, but the Microsoft approach is flawed because it fails to give users control over their security keys. [Tomalak's Realm] .< 3:39:41 PM >Free SoundField 5.1 Mic Demo DVD Available Las Vegas, NV (April 15, 2003)--A free SoundField 5.1 DVD-Video demo disc is now available from the Transamerica Audio Group, the exclusive importer of SoundField microphones to the U.S. To get a free DVD, log on to www.transaudiogroup.com and register. [ProSound News] .< 12:24:51 PM >MacNN | News: OmniGraffle 3.0 diagramming app now available 'The Omni Group today released OmniGraffle 3.0, an update to its its diagramming and charting software for Mac OS X.' .< 12:09:35 PM >FootTrack offers iMovie users a catalog solution 'FootTrack uses an interface metaphor similar to iPhoto, with a main window that displays information on all your tapes or clip groups on one side, and thumbnail images of the clips on the right. You import your video clips through iMovie and use FootTrack to index to the content, complete with intact DV timecode and record date information.' This looks very slick. .< 12:04:01 PM >Open multiple web pages with one click in Safari Beta 2 You know how Command-Click opens a link in a new tab in Safari Beta 2? Well, I just stumbled on this . . .[macosxhints] .< 12:03:19 PM >Switching tabs via the keyboard in Safari Beta 2 I accidentally found out how to switch between open tabs in Safari Beta 2 without reaching for the mouse. [macosxhints] .< 12:02:33 PM >Close all open tabs in Safari Beta 2 Don't forget: if you have more than one tab open in Safari, then option-clicking on one of the close buttons closes all of the tabs in that window. [macosxhints] .< 11:59:44 AM >iCommune resurfaces; music-sharing for iTunes 'This new version, iCommune 2.0a1, has been rewritten from the ground up as a standalone application that communicates with iTunes via open interfaces, and is thus free of any licensing restrictions, according to Speth. What's more, iCommune is now being developed as an open source project, and its source code is available for download from SourceForge.' .< 11:56:57 AM >Beige G3s get 1GHz G4 boost 'Look for the Encore/ZIF G4 1.0GHz-1M model to ship soon with a suggested retail price of US$699.95.' .< 2:23:41 AM >US hawks call for regime change next in Syria '"There has got to be regime change in Syria," Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday.' .< 2:17:31 AM >Prized Iraqi annals 'lost in blaze' Iraq's national library in central Baghdad is set on fire, with many priceless records and archives from the country's history reportedly destroyed. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 1:50:48 AM >The photographs tell the story... 'Is This Media manipulation on a grand scale?' Fascinating. The pictures we saw on the front of every newspaper under the caption 'Baghdad Falls!' was a staged event. That's not really a surprise. But the extent to which the press swallowed it whole is remarkable. .< 1:42:58 AM >MacNN | News: Novell announces GroupWise client for Mac 'The Java-based GroupWise client is based on technology Novell acquired from N-iX, a division of Newcomp Computer Systems. It will be available to customers later this year.' OS X? I assume so but the web site has no information at this point. .< 1:32:58 AM >MacNN | News: More info about Apple-Vivendi buyout talks 'Following Friday's news of possible Apple-Vivendi buyout, several news organizations have posted follow-up stories with some interesting information about the talks and potential obstacles that a buy out may face:' .< 1:28:37 AM >Spell checking in Safari input boxes You can spell check in Safari when posting in online forums, thanks to its Cocoa roots. Here's how... [macosxhints] .< 1:17:00 AM >CBC News: Quebec Liberals cruise to majority government Big news in Québec. Geoff beat it home Sun night so he could vote. .< 1:12:55 AM >CBC News:Funding cuts may kill many Canadian TV projects 'CBC-TV's This Hour Has 22 Minutes is one of many high-profile Canadian television shows that may be scrapped, a result of the Canadian Television Fund rejecting nearly two-thirds of its subsidy applicants.' Here's some news that won't go over well. .< 1:06:15 AM >CBC News: SARS strikes Toronto religious community 'Dr. Sheela Basrur, Toronto's medical officer of health, said there are 10 probable cases and 19 suspect cases among members of the Bukas-Loob Sa Diyos Covenant group, an international Catholic sect. Two physicians treating the group have also been infected.' .< 1:04:41 AM >The Globe and Mail: Canada's Mike Weir stands atop the golf world after masterly victory at Augusta 'By any measure, it's a very short list that now includes Mike Weir: individual Canadian athletes who have reached the peak in true world sports. It would have to include track's Donovan Bailey, Mark McCoy and Ben Johnson -- the latter, of course, with his permanent asterisk. Probably Daniel Igali, though his vocation, wrestling, doesn't get much publicity here. The heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Lennox Lewis, doesn't always choose to acknowledge Canada as his homeland. It's tempting to throw in Larry Walker, who had a couple of the greatest statistical seasons in the history of baseball, a sport with nearly global reach; and the racing Villeneuves père et fils, Gilles et Jacques, since Formula 1 crosses so many time zones and cultural barriers. As Brunt says, teams are a whole other matter. But Weir is obviously in rare company. |
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