One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 15 March 2004

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iPodlounge Article

Thanks to iPodlounge publisher Dennis Lloyd for getting me to write this article for the iPodlounge. Bookmarking, recovering files from iPod, ripping CDs to iPod, and other topics are covered. [Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes]

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Skippy sez: "I heard, years ago, about a rule prohibiting the use of the flag in advertising for any means."[snip Link

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A comprehensive page of all of CNET's RSS feeds. [Scripting News]

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Thanks to BoingBoing for the pointer to this very cool application of RSS, which shows the last five entries on the Kerry weblog, adjacent to the last five entries on the Bush blog. [Scripting News]

Actually this is pretty cool. Simple but clever use of the technology.

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CNN: "It is called 'RSS' for 'really simple syndication.'" [Scripting News]

Can you say 'tipping point'?

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Wired: "A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular programmer and blogger merges two of this season's hottest tech fads -- RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing -- to create a cheap publishing system for what its author calls 'big media objects.'" [Scripting News]

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3/15/99: "Scripting News is the first site to support RSS." [Scripting News]

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But art is news that stays news, to adapt a famous phrase from Ezra Pound. Posada's pictures have outlasted their topical uses. In the years following his death, influential viewers, including painters Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, saw an important precursor in their effort to forge a distinctively Mexican art.

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BBC SPORT | Mexico leading the way
It seems clear that the best league outside Europe is no longer the Brazilian or the Argentine. It is the Mexican.

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Yahoo! News - AP: Mexican Worker Deaths Rise Sharply
The jobs that lure Mexican workers to the United States are killing them in a worsening epidemic that is now claiming a victim a day, an Associated Press investigation has found. Though Mexicans often take the most hazardous jobs, they are more likely than others to be killed even when doing similarly risky work.

The death rates are greatest in several Southern and Western states, where a Mexican worker is four times more likely to die than the average U.S.-born worker. These accidental deaths are almost always preventable and often gruesome: Workers are impaled, shredded in machinery, buried alive. Some are 15 years old.

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Yahoo! News - Christ Film Reaches Mexico 16 Years Later
The ban on Scorsese's film highlighted the strong influence wielded behind-scenes by Mexico's conservative church hierarchy despite the nation's tradition of church-state separation. [snip] This time round, the church accepts that times have changed.

"We are against this type of film but we can't go against the right of those who are interested in seeing it. We have to respect freedom of expression," Father Jose de Jesus Aguilar, a senior cleric in Mexico City, told Reuters.

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Astronomers find 'new planet'

A new space telescope has detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet, named Sedna. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the new Medicare law. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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The ouster of the center-right party in Spain is the first electoral rebuke of one of President Bush's most steadfast allies in the Iraq war. [New York Times: International]

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When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Spain's new prime minister, was picked as the Socialists' next hope in this election, few people had heard of him. [New York Times: International]

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With a meeting in Brussels, the clock on the five-year-old antitrust case against Microsoft begins to run down. [New York Times: Technology]