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Go Mike! It's a big country. .< 10:50:09 PM  >MacWorld: 4.5 Mice The latest issue of MacWorld (May 2003) contains hundreds of short reviews. NetNewsWire Lite got 4-and-a-half mice! (See page 78.) [Ranchero.com] NNW is one of 'the tools I use'. Beautiful software for OS X. .< 10:48:30 PM >In European Union Milestone, 10 Lands Sign Pacts to Join During a historic ceremony in Athens, the leaders of 10 countries signed treaties today to join the European Union. [NyTimes] For most of the world this is probably nothing more than "just another international news". Growing up for the last 32 years a few hundred meters away from a quickly vanishing border (the one with Solvenia, in my case) makes things a little different. Very soon there will be almost no border. Even if each country will maintain its own languages, traditions and identities, we will all belong to the same family. And it's a peaceful process. For most of my life I've lived within walking distance from a border. First Yugoslavia, then Slovenia. Crossing the border has always been easy, but soon it will be much easier. It's quite a strange feeling. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Contrast this with what's happening in North America. Fortress USA has put an end to the idea(l) of 'the world's longest undefended border'. .< 9:04:48 PM >Culture of tests 'stifling' joy of learning Education: Children are being railroaded into a testing culture that squeezes out the joy of learning and turns schools into "factories", a leading teaching union warned yesterday. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 7:17:13 PM >Recordare adds MusicXML export to Sibelius 'MusicXML is a universal translator for common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It's designed as an interchange format for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performance applications. MusicXML is supported by over a dozen different programs running on Mac, Windows, and Linux systems.' .< 7:13:51 PM >Apple Posts $14 Million Q2 Profit (16-Apr-2003; 1.2K) [TidBITS] .< 6:55:57 PM >Chicago Tribune | Sites are blogged down in controversy 'Not surprisingly, the San Jose Mercury News, based in the tech-heavy Silicon Valley, features a frequently updated blog by tech writer Dan Gillmor, which can be found at siliconvalley.com. British media companies also have embraced the trend; one of the best war sites is the bbc.com group blog written by the news network's Iraq correspondents.
Still, those companies are the exception, not the rule. "I get the sense that a lot of companies haven't set policies on this yet," says Steve Outing, a Web expert at the Poynter Institute, an educational center for journalists.' The French news agency quotes an Iraqi police officer as saying the police fired into the air to disperse looters who were trying to rob a bank. Eyewitnesses said US troops then fired on a crowd close to the building from nearby rooftops. US forces had earlier denied responsibility for the killings on Tuesday.
Witnesses said US troops fired into a crowd growing increasingly hostile to a speech being given by the town's newly appointed governor.' I saw the looters. One of them cursed me when I tried to reclaim a book of Islamic law from a boy of no more than 10. Amid the ashes of Iraqi history, I found a file blowing in the wind outside: pages of handwritten letters between the court of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who started the Arab revolt against the Turks for Lawrence of Arabia, and the Ottoman rulers of Baghdad.
And the Americans did nothing.' And the Pentagon indicated it would protect the museum and other culturally important sites. Guess they were too busy watching the oil wells. Another angle: there is an international treaty which makes it illegal to trade in cultural items. So is there no market for the artifacts stolen by the organized smuggling rings? Not quite. The US is not a signatory to the treaty and therefor it is not illegal to sell the items stolen from the museum in the US. .< 12:59:05 AM >OpinionJournal - CNN's Access of Evil: The network of record covered Saddam's repression with propaganda. 'For CNN, the highest prize is "access," to score live camera feeds from a story's epicenter. Dictatorships understand this hunger, and also that it provides blackmail opportunities. In exchange for CNN bureaus, dictatorships require adherence to their own rules of reportage. They create conditions where CNN--and other U.S. media--can do little more than toe the regime's line.' The problem is much bigger than this opinion piece states. CNN wants access to Washington as well. There's no question they stroke their sources and colour their stories to make sure they maintain that access. .< 12:54:20 AM >Human Genome Map Complete Scientists say the final draft of the human genome sequence is finished. The new draft comes less than three years after the initial draft of the three billion letters that comprise human DNA was completed, and two years earlier than expected. [Wired News] .< 12:53:57 AM >Mac-Only Comic Thinks PC's a Hoot Comedian Scott Bruce delights in poking fun at Windows computers while extolling the virtues of his Mac. He's one of the few comedians who routinely works the subject of computers into his act. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] .< 12:53:39 AM >Wi-Fi Power: 20,000 Nodes or Bust Everybody talks about the Wi-Fi future. Cometa CEO Larry Brilliant is building it -- with some help from three little outfits called IBM, Intel and AT & T. By Lucas Graves from Wired magazine. [Wired News] .< 12:53:03 AM >Apple Said to Discuss a Music Deal, but Not Too Seriously Apple Computer has discussed an investment in Universal Music, but a deal is unlikely to be concluded, people close to the discussions said. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:52:33 AM >Photo Shops Find the Bright Side of Digital Technology Apparently, the Cassandras were wrong: digital photography has not made photo retailing obsolete. [New York Times: Technology] '[W]omen are snapping a lot more digital pictures these days. That has retailers clapping, as studies show that women are more likely than men to want lots of prints and less likely to make those prints themselves.
"For women, photography is about memories, not technology, and that is definitely good for us," said Judy Strauss-Sansone, vice president for photo and consumables for the CVS Corporation. ' I was hoping they would stage some shows. Are they going on tour? I would love to see this show. The movie blew me away and Joan Osbourne was a revelation. .< 12:30:22 AM >Pro-Saddam gangs challenge marines' control of Tikrit War in the Gulf: Gangs of Arab tribesmen armed with Kalashnikovs and machine guns were still in control of much of Tikrit last night, a day after US marines apparently liberated the town. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:29:56 AM >Chaos mars talks on Iraqi self-rule Shia group boycotts meeting · 12 die in riots in Mosul · Delegates agree to meet again [Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:26:23 AM >Coalition 'focused on oilfields' Amnesty International accuses US and British forces in Iraq of doing more to protect the country's oil fields than its people. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 12:11:31 AM >Radio UserLand : Common errors 'Here are some common errors you may come across when getting started with Radio UserLand.' An old but still useful doc. |
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