One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 16 January 2004

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Mexico Awaits Hague Ruling on Citizens on U.S. Death Row

In a struggle that has raised questions about the reach of international law, Mexico is challenging the death sentences of 52 Mexican citizens in the U.S. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 'Mexico says the United States violated a treaty guaranteeing that foreigners arrested in this country have access to representatives of their government.'

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I've been trying for the longest time to figure out how to make a disk-level duplicate image of a CD from the command line. I know Toast can do it, but I don't own it. Disk Utility's "CD/DVD Master" type files also seem to co... [macosxhints]

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Apparently Apple introduced a little bug with 10.3.2 where the boot script doesn't find a file where it's supposed to be. You can fix that by typing the following command into the Terminal (one long line, broken with a backsl... [macosxhints]

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- Ain't our Money Green? - CBS May Decline MoveOn.org Ad According to an AdAge.com article, CBS may reject MoveOn.org's bid to have the winner of the "Bush in 30 seconds" ad competition run during the Superbowl. A spokesman for CBS said the Viacom-owned network has received the request from MoveOn to run the ad in the Super Bowl, but added that the ad has to go through standards and practices before CBS will say if it can run an advocacy ad during the game. The spokesman said he didn't think it was likely that the spot would pass standards and practices. (You can view the ad in question here.) Exactly what these "standards and practices" are is unclear, but of the advertisers listed, at least three are running political issue ads: American Legacy Foundation: "Likely to be a new excecution in the 'Connect-truth' (anti-smoking) campaign." Philip Morris USA: "A new execution in its corporate responsibility, anti-smoking campaign." White House Office of National Drug Control Policy: "The drug office is in the big game for the third year in a row." [Kuro5hin.org]

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NY Times: Recording Studio in a Box. But even in version 1.0, GarageBand is an exciting breakthrough. Not so much for established musicians (although even they may find it useful for practicing, experimenting with arrangements, and rough-draft composing), but for musicians who are yet to be established. [Tomalak's Realm]