One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 27 May 2004

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Salon : "It's the war, stupid."...

Salon: "It's the war, stupid." [Scripting News]

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If you missed coverage of his NYU address yesterday, you can read the entire speech here. Link (Thanks, Patrick) [Boing Boing]

The righteous rant I referred to earlier.

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I did something realllly stupid this morning, I installed a free program that offered me a choice: $29.95 with no ads or $0 with ads. Since I was just checking it out, I opted for the $0 version. I figured a few ads, no problemmo. If I like it I'll pay the bucks. Big big mistake. Popups all over the place. Tons of virusware installed. I expect to be digging out all day. [Scripting News]

Kazaa is doing something really stupid. I'll be sure to never use their software.

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Classical music still seems to have trouble dealing with strong women. If you're attractive, it seems, you must also be cheesy and commercial. [New York Times: Arts] 'Of course men are also evaluated in terms of their sex appeal, but the violinists Joshua Bell and James Ehnes do not seem to be relegated to bimbo status because of their pinup images.'

James, you sexy thing! Just finishing up a 2nd edit of his new disc now. More sexy musicians' discs to come.

< 10:30:41 AM >

Pentagon officials said that the president's Monday night announcement that the United States would demolish Abu Ghraib prison had taken them by surprise. [New York Times: International] 'None of the groundwork was done for something like this to be more than a public relations announcement," said Tim Rieser, a senior Democratic aide to the subcommittee. "And now we're going to have to figure it out after the fact." White House officials, Mr. Rieser said, "routinely treat Congress as their personal A.T.M. machine."'

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President Bush's political opponents wonder at a new warning that al-Qaeda may stage an attack in the US. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

This is the problem when you are a morally bankrupt administration with no credibility. Everything that comes out of your mouth becomes suspect. There may indeed be an imminent threat. But why should we believe them? They have plenty of reasons to try to get everyone worked up about a possible terrorist threat.

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President Bush says Iraq is the central front in the war on terror, but security experts say Iraq is the reason Bin Laden's movement is growing [TIME's Top Stories] 'The same day the President spoke, the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies released its annual survey that found, among other things, that far from dealing a blow to al-Qaeda and making the U.S. and its allies safer, the Iraq invasion has in fact substantially strengthened bin Laden's network and increased the danger of attacks in the West. And the London-based IISS is not some Bush-bashing antiwar think tank; it hosted the president's keynote address during his embattled visit to the British late last year.'

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DISAPPOINTING DATA Questioning of hundreds of Iraqi prisoners last fall at a special interrogation center at Abu Ghraib prison yielded little valuable intelligence, officials say. Meanwhile, records show that three of the seven soldiers now charged with abuse at Abu Ghraib repeatedly committed infractions and disobeyed orders, but received only mild punishments. [Pages A1, 13]. [New York Times: International]

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They are masters of innovation, technology and strategic vision -- the top 40 companies driving the global economy. By Kevin Kelleher from Wired magazine. [Wired News]

Top 3? Google, Amazon, Apple.