One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 6 May 2004

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Awesome: Reuters RSS Feeds ....

Awesome: Reuters RSS Feeds. Bing! [Scripting News]

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Two prominent Democrats called for his resignation and two Republicans told him to prepare for a tough hearing on Friday. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Bring them all down, one at a time if need be.

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The Fed chairman cautioned that the country should not be lulled into a false sense of security about the federal deficit. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Duh

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Staff members were fully aware of the abuses by U.S. soldiers, a spokesman for the humanitarian organization said today. [New York Times: International]

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Bush apologizes for Iraqi prisoner abuse, says he's 'sorry for the humiliation'
U.S. President George W. Bush issued a careful apology on Thursday, for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American troops. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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New look at UserLand's web site, and a description of RSS from a corporate user's point of view. [Scripting News]

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Some of America's biggest telecommunications companies are meeting to discuss how best to provide phone services to consumers. [New York Times: Technology]

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Canada's telephone services are threatened by rivals offering an increasingly popular technology known as voice-over-Internet protocol. [New York Times: Technology]

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Two physicists in California have developed a way to hear and preserve sounds without cranking up that old Victrola. [New York Times: Technology] 'The method involves no contact with the recording surface. After the camera does its work, image-processing algorithms take over, detecting scratches or spots of dust and deleting them. Then software simulates the stylus motion, and the results are converted to a digital sound format.'

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With thousands of tunes in your iTunes library or in your iPod, it's high time to consider using it as the radio you've always looked for: the one that delivers only tunes you like, and that fit your mood in a unheard of way.... [macosxhints]

Clever! He needs to make his data available as the heavy lifting is in the data entry.

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In iTunes (I'm using 4.5 and just noticed today, but it probably works in older versions as well), if you hold down the Option key while clicking either the Import button or selecting "Convert Selection to xxx" (whe... [macosxhints]

Great! I use iTunes to import CD audio into Sonic but had previously been copying files over to another drive after the audio was imported.

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Music fans have purchased and downloaded a record-setting 3.3 million songs from the new iTunes Music Store since its launch one week ago. iTunes users have already published more than 20,000 iMixes, and those iMixes have been rated by fellow iTunes users over 50,000 times. [Apple Hot News]

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Report says government needs to 'break the back' of poverty in Canada
Campaign 2000, a coalition of social advocates, is trying to make child poverty a federal election issue. They released a report on Wednesday, which claims one in six, or one million Canadian children, are growing up poor. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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Residents of the tiny slice of Appalachia that is home to several members of the unit involved in the Iraq abuse case have expressed disgust at what they saw in the photographs. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 'But nowhere has the soul searching been more anguished than in this slice of Appalachia, where many members of the 372nd live and where, until last week, the unit was a huge source of patriotic pride.'

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Bush offers no apology for abuse of Iraqi prisoners
U.S. President George W. Bush's appearance on two Arab-language TV channels to talk about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners brought mixed response in Baghdad Wednesday. F U L L S T O R Y
[CBC News]

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A rare Rose Period Picasso, "Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice)," sold for $104.1 million on Wednesday, eclipsing the world record set in 1990. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

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The government of Cuba strongly denounced Mexico on Wednesday for pushing relations to their lowest point in a century. [New York Times: International]

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WASHINGTON, May 5 — The Justice Department is examining the involvement of Central Intelligence Agency officers and contract employees in three suspicious deaths of detainees, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday. [New York Times: International]

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ABU GHRAIB, Iraq, May 5 It was an inauspicious start for a guided tour meant to show that things had changed at the prison that is now a byword for inmate abuse. [New York Times: International] 'With that the American commanders, who said they wanted to demonstrate that they had nothing to hide in the treatment of Iraqi prisoners, decided after a few minutes that it was time to move to the next stop.'

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President Bush was displeased by Donald H. Rumsfeld's failure to tell Mr. Bush about photographs of the abuse of prisoners. [New York Times: International] 'The disclosures by the White House officials, under authorization from Mr. Bush, were an extraordinary display of finger-pointing in an administration led by a man who puts a high premium on order and loyalty. The officials said the president had expressed his displeasure to Mr. Rumsfeld in an Oval Office meeting because of Mr. Rumsfeld's failure to tell Mr. Bush about photographs of the abuse, which have enraged the Arab world.'

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World: Chief of staff makes jibes at the war record of Bush's inner circle, comparing their desire for military conflict with their reluctance to serve as young men. [Guardian Unlimited] 'The article, which includes an interview with Mr Powell, is most illuminating for the comments made by his close friends and colleagues who are explicit about his distrust and disdain for the hawks in the administration.'

It's almost delicious watching this all fall apart. Here's hoping the collapse continues apace and the US American people will toss the creeps out in November.

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Film: Michael Moore's forthcoming film, Fahrenheit 911, exposes links between George Bush and prominent Saudis. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Pressure mounts in US over Iraq torture scandal. [Guardian Unlimited]