One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 16 September 2003

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PM criticizes rich nations over farm subsidies 'Prime Minister Jean Chrétien blasted rich nations Tuesday for failing to reach a deal to reduce agriculture subsidies, taking particular aim at the United States and European Union.

"When will we stop this nonsense of giving so much subsidies that a cow in some countries gets more money than any child," Mr. Chrétien said during a international conference of chambers of commerce.

"The peace of the world will always be more problematic because you cannot have entire continents going down the tube when the rest of the world is getting richer."'

Makes you proud to be a Canuck. Go Jean.

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Equally biting were words from Bloc Québécois MP Real Menard who said, "It's like a father who tells his daughter, 'I'm not a racist but I don't want you to marry a black person,' or a husband who says to his wife, 'I'm for equality but I don't want you to have the right to work.' Isn't there a point somewhere when you have to walk the walk?" '

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We Got Rhythm; the Mystery Is How and Why

Why did evolution build the ability to enjoy music into the human brain? Recent research has produced a number of theories. [New York Times: Arts] 't could be that the brain perceives music with the same circuits it uses to hear and analyze human speech, and that it thrills to its cadences with centers designed to mediate other kinds of pleasure. Dr. Anne Blood and Dr. Robert J. Zatorre, of the Montreal Neurological Institute, recently took PET scans of musicians' brains while they listened to self-selected pieces of music that gave them "chills" of euphoria. The works included Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 and Barber's Adagio for Strings. The music, the researchers reported, activated similar neural systems of reward and emotion as those stimulated by food, sex and addictive drugs.'

Lots of interesting stuff in this article.

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Astronomers say they have heard the sound of a black hole singing. And what it is singing is B flat a B flat 57 octaves lower than middle C. [New York Times: Arts] 'The black hole is playing "the lowest note in the universe," said Dr. Andrew Fabian, an X-ray astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy at Cambridge University in England.'

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I have no idea if the beta upstreaming changes ever got included in the updates but the workaround link that actually works is located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/radio-dev/message/7664

if you are using Windows XP, right click the fttb link and "save target as" to download the file then follow steps 2-5

Julie http://radio.weblogs.com/0119318/ [Radio Discussion List]

At last, some movement on improving this longstanding problem. I've installed the beta and look forward to it becoming a permanent fix.

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The all-new 15-inch PowerBook G4 offers an unrivaled mix of power and portability in a sleek aluminum design weighing just 5.6 pounds. Featuring a stunning 15.2-inch widescreen display, phenomenal graphics, backlit keyboard and advanced connectivity including AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet, the new 15-inch PowerBook G4 starts at just $1,999 (US). [Sep 16] [Apple Hot News]

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Apple Updates 15-inch PowerBook, Finally! (16-Sep-2003; 2.3K) [TidBITS]

Excellent! This is what I was waiting for. Now to start lobbying, gently of course. Hopefully within the next few months. My Pismo is showing its age.

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Writing for the Reuters news service, Lucas van Grinsven quotes Apple CEO Steve Jobs as saying that iTunes Music Store will be available for European users in 2004. He also said that iTunes for Windows is on track. [MacCentral]

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“After a couple of weeks with the Mac and OS X,” writes InfoWorld CTO Chad Dickerson, “I’m pretty close to being a convert. As I said last week, I’m not ready to do a mass migration at InfoWorld, but OS X is definitely on my enterprise radar now … Perhaps the most compelling reason to consider Mac OS X is astoundingly simple: It’s a Unix-based system that runs software such as Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop.” [Sep 15] [Apple Hot News]

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