One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Sunday, 23 November 2003

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CBC News - Viewpoint: Anthony Westell
Would things have been different had JFK not been killed, but instead had won a second term? Not likely, because the seeds of the troubles to come were sprouting during his term. He died a tragic hero before they came to flower. But 40 years later we should be able to see events in perspective.

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Sun co-founder lauds his G5, OS X

Wired magazine has posted an interview with Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy. In the course of the interview Joy muses about the state of technology, software development and the world at large. Joy also offers a nice plug for his Mac and Mac OS X. [MacCentral]

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With the holidays right around the corner, Apple's .Mac online service has posted a new training feature that outlines the use of key iLife applications like iMovie and iDVD. [MacCentral]

Wonderful stuff

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JFK's murder still felt 40 years later
Thousands of people converged on a Dallas street Saturday where U.S. president John F. Kennedy was assassinated exactly 40 years ago. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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"It's amazing, it's a chance of a lifetime," said fan Janelle Conn of Beaumont, Alta. "I don't care if I freeze my butt off, it's worth every minute of it."

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The good ol' hockey game
It is difficult to describe exactly what craving in the national psyche this one meaningless exhibition match has triggered. An idea that was first all but dismissed because organizers did not believe they could fill enough seats has become an event so magnetic, there had been by week's end some 900,000 requests for tickets.

It was supposed to be but an "add-on" to the real event, an actual NHL regular season match between the modern Oilers and Canadiens, but very quickly the old-timers' game -- no hitting allowed, no speed expected -- had so dwarfed the real game that many were wondering if the sellout crowd would stick around for the whole "main event."

What explains such a phenomenon?

There is, of course, the simple power of stars -- Gretzky, Messier, Lafleur -- at a time when professional hockey seems largely devoid of such personality.

But there is also a sense that here, on display, is something so special in Canadian sports and cultural history that it is already frozen in time if not in fact -- and that there is a national longing to return to that time, if only to look once again on a game as it is so fondly recalled, even if not always accurately.'

A very enjoyable article from the front page of today's Globe

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Forgive me while I show my sentimental side. This whole thing just gave me the warm and fuzzies.