One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 13 February 2004

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CHUM apologizes for Conan's Quebec sketch...

CHUM apologizes for Conan's Quebec sketch
A Canadian television network issued an apology Friday for broadcasting a U.S. show's comedy routine that ridiculed French Canadians. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News] 'Ottawa and the province gave NBC about $1 million to help pay for O'Brien's show to come to Toronto for a week to try to boost tourism after last year's SARS outbreak.'

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A large portion of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, could be held for many years, perhaps indefinitely. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

IIlegally and against all international laws.

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Arts: Mark Bain used seismological data from the 9/11 attacks in New York to make a musical composition. It's not easy listening, says Mark Oliver. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Valentine: We asked you to tell us about your most horrific Valentine's experiences. Here we publish our favourite choices. [Guardian Unlimited]

See if you can top these!

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3 die in Alberta avalanche
Emergency crews have found the body of a third person killed in an avalanche in Banff National Park. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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A Seattle love story. I met Anita Rowland and Jack Bell on Monday night at the pizza meeting at the .NET Developer's Association. To my surprise, it turns out that Anita met Jack on Scripting News. She had sent me an email saying she was looking for a geek boyfriend. I published it of course, and also published one from Jack Bell, on the same mail page. They exchanged emails, then had coffee, and now they're married. How about that! [Scripting News]

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Microsoft scrambles to find out how its prized code made its way onto the Internet. Experts say malicious hackers -- and Microsoft competitors -- could have a field day. [Wired News]

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Fix coming in April [The Register] 'EMI's system is believed to introduce errors in the music encoded as a data on the disc.'

Great. Now they want you to buy a deliberately defective CD.

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blog is the OED's word of the day. [Scripting News]

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