One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 8 January 2004

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Space, the busy frontier

Life: The headline-grabbing events on Mars are just the start of a hectic year of space exploration that will include a dramatic Saturn mission. Tim Radford reports. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Online: Apple is set to review the UK pricing of its iPod mini music player, launched on Tuesday, after complaints about a substantial mark-up for non-US buyers of the device. [Guardian Unlimited]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Farm-raised salmon contain significantly more dioxins and other potentially cancer-causing pollutants than do salmon caught in the wild, says a major study that tested contaminants in fish bought around the world. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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Prepared by a team of I.M.F. economists, the report sounded a loud alarm about the shaky fiscal foundation of the U.S. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Terrorism? Irresponsible leadership could be responsible for much greater hardships.

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What a long, strange trip it's been... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] 'But the most significant bit was the inclusion of a new member of the iLife family: GarageBand.

My first impression: huh? My second thought, after listening for a few minutes: cool, but how generally useful is that? My thinking by the end of the demo: Steve Jobs is a freakin' genius.'

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I asked for, and got, most of what I was looking for from MacWorld this year...even if Apple didn't deliver it. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]

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In what the company says is a world first, Alpine Electronics will release a car stereo unit that allows you to connect your iPod to your car stereo and control it from there. They're calling it the iPod Ready Interface kit, and they're building it into selected 2004 Alpine in-dash receivers. [MacCentral]

It's a music delivery format.

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One thing that struck me hard from MacWorld coverage in the blogosphere is the meme that formed out of the KeyNote: Apple computers are for people who produce. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac]

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You can have an entertaining, inspiring keynote without introducing the next big thing. Apple and Steve Jobs did just that at Macworld SF '04, and it bodes well for the year ahead. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

A very fine summary of where Apple is at right now. They rock!