One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 4 December 2003

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Colder, less snowy

Environment Canada says the coming season will be colder but less snowy than your average winter. [montreal city weblog]

Bummer. The snow I don't mind. The cold . . . ?

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Michael Adams, author of Fire & Ice: The US, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, is a pollster for Environics Research. Not surprisingly, the data that he uses to support his thesis is based on comprehensive and rigorous polling of Canadians and Americans about what is important to them, and how that is changing over time. His thesis, which got some headlines in the NYT yesterday, is the same one I laid out in my article Why Canadians Fear America: that, far from being Americans 'lite', Canadians have fundamentally different values and worldviews from Americans, and those differences are increasing. Canadians are now much closer to their European contemporaries than to Americans, closer to Europeans, in fact, than are the British. America is now largely isolated in its prevailing worldview from the rest of the developed world. Its values are closer to those of autocractic developing nations than to those of other nations that have made the transition to democracy and constitutional liberalism.[snip] [How to Save the World]

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Pantone, the company whose color-matching system is the standard in industries from printing to design, is releasing a line of premium printer paper and inkjet cartridges that it says will be less expensive than replacements supplied by the printer makers. [New York Times: Technology]

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Dusty disc may mean other Earths [Daypop Top 40] 'Astronomers say they have evidence for Earth-like planets orbiting a nearby star, making it more like our own Solar System than any yet discovered.'

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The Plain English Campaign, an British organization that strives to have public information delivered in straightforward English, has given this year's "Foot in Mouth" award to none other than U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. [Kuro5hin.org]

Hey, our own Chrétien gets a nod. A proof is a proof.

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News.Com: Skype's VoIP ambitions. Q&A with Niklas Zennstrom, Skype. What we're saying is that telephony is just an application. You can use this software application that does all the call setup and routing, which traditionally has been done by big company switches. Telephony is software. It's not big software in a centralized system. [Tomalak's Realm]

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The Plain English Campaign, an British organization that strives to have public information delivered in straightforward English, has given this year's "Foot in Mouth" award to none other than U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. [Kuro5hin.org]

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Macworld magazine has announced the 2003 Editors’ Choice awards—and NetNewsWire is on the list! (We don’t yet know what category.)

Thank you to Macworld! [Ranchero.com]

Right on. Well deserved. This is wonderful software. I suggest it to all my Mac friends.