One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 3 February 2004

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Globe and Mail: When history meets the eye
The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives at Keele University in north-central England has put its digitized collection of about five million Royal Air Force photographs of western Europe on the Internet.

Fascinating. I want to see if there are shots of Holland in the fall of 1944 but the server is overloaded right now.

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After more than a year in development, the VoiceXML 2.0 specification for technology to replace typing with spoken commands advances to the next-to-last phase before becoming a standard. [CNET News.com]

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Dent du Midi is a freeware utilty to convert standard MIDI files for use in GarageBand.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one, but I've received a few emails asking this question, so here's (apparently) at least one answer..... [macosxhints]

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After upgrading to iPhoto 4 I was stunned that there was no Find command. You could search your photo collection by keyword, but no other way. After a bit of cursing, I found a way to use a smart album as a makeshift search c... [macosxhints]

< 11:45:54 AM >

Comment: Proposals to combat terrorism are more in tune with dictatorship than the 'free' society they are supposed to defend, argues Shami Chakrabarti. [Guardian Unlimited]

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US Secretary of State Colin Powell says he is unsure he would have recommended war in Iraq if there were no WMDs. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

< 11:37:18 AM >

US federal TV regulators launch an inquiry into Janet Jackson's Super Bowl performance. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'Jan LaRue, chief counsel for the conservative Concerned Women for America group, called it a "pornographic show".'

The BBC helpfully provide a number of freeze frames

< 11:33:35 AM >

Economic dispatch: Bush's willingness to run up a mammoth deficit may hide, as it did for Reagan, a rightwing agenda to cut welfare, writes William Keegan. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Blair launches inquiry into British intelligence failure
Following the lead of U.S. President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will hold an inquiry into intelligence about Saddam Hussein's regime that led to the invasion of Iraq. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Living conditions for natives still shameful, Ottawa admits [GAM-National]

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Lately, anyone who's paying attention has seen a stampede of multipage ads in national magazines, meant to brand the term digital photography in the mind of the average consumer. Indeed, the allure of taking photos with a digital camera and printing them how and when you like is hard to resist. [MacCentral] 'The one printer that clearly stands out from the pack is the Canon i960. The combination of speed, color fidelity, detail, and price makes it a fabulous product.'

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Just posted! Our ten page hands-on preview of Nikon's all new sub-$1000 D70 digital SLR. We have now received a pre-production D70 and have produced a fully detailed hands-on preview of the camera examining the design, operation, display and menus as well as a comparison to the D100 and Canon EOS 300D. So far I like what I see, some seriously good competition for Canon. As yet we are not able to post image quality samples but will do so as soon as we can get a production camera. [Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)]

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"Intelligence sources, policy makers and weapons inspectors familiar with the details of the hunt for WMD told The Observer it was widely known that Iraq had no WMD within three weeks of Baghdad falling, despite the assertions of senior Bush administration figures and the Prime Minister, Tony Blair." [Daypop Top 40]

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"The Observer | Business | Microsoft in human rights row" [Daypop Top 40] 'Technology sold by Microsoft to the Chinese government has been used by Beijing to censor the internet, and resulted in the jailing of its political opponents.'

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Scott Rosenberg: "If US intelligence is broken, it's clear that the Bush White House broke it." [Scripting News] 'Before the war, Bush's Iraq hawks, dissatisfied with the weasely intel they were receiving suggesting that Saddam Hussein was not an imminent threat, browbeat the CIA and zeroed in on a passel of dubious reports that indicated the dictator in fact possessed weapons of mass destruction. All indications suggest that the intelligence agency's best people looked on in horror as their procedures for vetting and verifying information were ignored by the war-or-bust crowd, and impossible-to-verify accounts were touted as gospel.'

< 12:12:19 AM >

BMG named Clive Davis chief executive of nearly all of its North American music business, including Arista, the company Mr. Davis founded and was ousted from four years ago. [New York Times: Arts]

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The president is betting that voters will care far more about protecting the nation than about cuts to popular programs. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

And to make sure they agree he'll continue to keep them feeling paranoid.

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PM agrees to inquiry to establish why Iraq appears to be devoid of weapons of mass destruction. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Logistics problems, which senior army officials played down at the time, were much worse than have been previously reported. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]