One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 8 September 2003

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Salam Pax: How I became the Baghdad Blogger

Salam Pax describes what it was like to play cat-and-mouse with Saddam's censors. [Guardian Unlimited] 'So when in 2000 the first state-operated internet centre was opened, everybody was a bit suspicious, no one knew if browsing news sites would get you in trouble. When, another year later, you were able to get access from home, life changed. We had internet and we were able to browse without the minders at the internet centres watching over our shoulder, asking you what that site you are browsing is. [snip] It was on one of these searches that I found blogs. With blogs the web started talking to me in a much more personal way. Bits of news started having texture and most amazingly, these blogs talked with each other. That hyperlink to the next blog - I just couldn't stop clicking.'

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The singer and songwriter came up with hard-boiled stories and tender confessions. [New York Times: Arts]

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Music fans have purchased and downloaded more than 10 million songs from the iTunes Music Store since its launch just over four months ago, averaging over 500,000 songs per week. The 10 millionth song, “Complicated” by Avril Lavigne, was purchased and downloaded at 11:34 p.m. PDT Sep 3. [Sep 8] [Apple Hot News]

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President Bush said that he would ask Congress for $87 billion in emergency spending for military and intelligence operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Doing all he can to destroy his own country.

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This year's Toronto International Film Festival has a selection of films with a definite musical slant, or in some cases the energy of a musical. [New York Times: Arts]

Neil Young. Guy Maddin. Cool Canucks.