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The vote in the Senate was 51 to 50, with Vice President Dick Cheney called in to break the tie. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] Something familiar about those numbers . . . .< 7:00:55 PM  >Canada faces double blow Canada's economy braces as the country confronts what appears to be fresh outbreak of the Sars virus and the first case of BSE in ten years. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] What the article doesn't mention is that we're also bracing for the West Nile virus. We're half expecting a plague of locusts next. .< 3:49:33 AM >Designer of Soundscapes As one of the best sound designers in the world, Keith Hillebrandt creates sound textures that evoke strong emotions. His work is often so subtle that you can’t tell what what he added — until you take it away. [May 16] [Apple Hot News] .< 3:38:40 AM >iPod Conquers New York “There are two types of people in New York: Those who have an iPod and those who want one,” write Mary Huhn and Maxine Shen in the New York Post. “The power to cram a jukebox worth of tunes into your shirt pocket is revolutionizing the New York social scene. There are iPod parties, jackets, fan clubs and Web sites galore. People are using the portable MP3 players as alarm clocks, address books and surrogate pets.” [May 22] [Apple Hot News] .< 3:36:49 AM >It's QuickTime over RealPlayer in new AOL Windows beta This week America Online made its AOL 9.0 client available to beta testers. One interesting change is that Apple's QuickTime media player is included instead of RealNetworks' RealOne player, which had previously been the technology powering AOL's media player, according to an eWeek article. The AOL 9.0 beta, code-named Blue Hawaii, is Windows only. The latest Mac versions are AOL for Mac OS X for Mac OS X (10.1 and higher) and AOL 5.0 for Mac OS 8.1-9.x. However, some of Blue Hawaii's features could make it into future Mac versions of the product. [MacCentral] .< 3:08:48 AM >Content Syndication with RSS, Chapter 2: Content-Syndication Architecture RSS, (originally developed by Netscape and Userland in the late 1990s) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. This excerpt is from Chapter 2: Content Syndication Architecture. From O'Reilly 0414 [WebReference News] .< 3:03:29 AM >:-) Writing about an article on the New York Times, Doc Searls today writes:
read it now, before it scrolls behind the paywall
Excellent. We could all start adding this disclaimer whenever we link to the NYT. I don't think that they would care much, but it would be a service to our readers. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] Argh. Bloody shame. .< 2:53:34 AM >Is "Mad Cow Disease" being blown out of proportion? One cow, in a Northern part of Canada was rejected by a governement food inspector in January because it didn't look healthy. The animal was slaughtered, its internal organs and brain were removed and the meat, hide and bones were sent to be turned into chicken and pig feed. Five months later the analysis of its brain turned out that the eight year old animal had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "Mad Cow Disease". Then yesterday, all hell broke loose. [Kuro5hin.org] .< 2:30:43 AM >O’Reilly interview with Brent Derrick Story: “The goal here is to discover and share the process that a successful Mac developer uses to take a glint of an idea full term to its full potential.” [Ranchero.com] |
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