One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 9 June 2004

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Political Wire: Poll Shows Kerry With...

Political Wire: Poll Shows Kerry With Solid Lead Nationwide. [Scripting News] 'Nearly three-fifths believe the nation is on the wrong track, the highest level a Times poll has recorded during Bush's presidency.'

Sad that it took US Americans so long to figure this out. Most of the rest of the world saw this coming a long time ago.

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"Not Even a Hedgehog - The stupidity of Ronald Reagan. By Christopher Hitchens" [Daypop Top 40]

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The planet crawls across the sun's face only twice every 122 years, and lucky stargazers around the world watch in awe as the celestial phenomenon unfolds. Missed it? You'll get another chance in 2012. [Wired News]

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The new technology will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to a TiVo video recorder's hard drive. [New York Times: Technology] 'TiVo, the maker of a popular digital video recorder, plans to announce a new set of Internet-based services today that will further blur the line between programming delivered over traditional cable and satellite channels and content from the Internet. It is just one of a growing group of large and small companies that are looking at high-speed Internet to deliver video content to the living room.'

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I don't know if you're prepared to try out some immediate upstreaming scripts, rather menus that I use to upstream RIGHT NOW a particular file, if so you should download and read.

Steve Hooker
http://www.cybersaps.org/ [Radio Discussion List]

Oooh. I've been looking for this kind of functionality. Going to check is out right now.

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October Surprise is asking people to predict the re-election trick that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney have in store for October. Results so far:

Osama bin Laden captured! 33.3%

Spectacular terrorist attack on US soil! 23.6%

Vote is threatened by terrorist attacks, vote suspended due to red alert. 14.6%

Diebold Election Systems fixes the vote in battleground states. 11.4%

Escalation in Israel, Iran, or North Korea. US opens a new war front. 8.1%

US pulls out of Iraq in October, leaving the UN in charge. 4.9%

WMD's found in Iraq! 4.1%

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Zach: "Apple should give you a cut of my purchase - I didn't even finish reading the description and I bought it."

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Just to clear up a common misconception, iTunes does not use WebKit to render the music store. What you see when you visit the iTunes music store may look "web-like", but it isn't HTML, and it isn't rendered by WebKit.

Interesting

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I was skeptical when I read the pull quote here but it's an interesting story. Haimovitz will be teaching at McGill starting this fall and his background is definitely legit.

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I recently wanted to extract the audio from an entire CD as a single gapless track, even though the CD itself has multiple tracks. Yes, iTunes already has a feature to do this; the following hint is for the power users among ... [macosxhints]

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Digidesign is now shipping Focusrite's The Liquid Channel, the company has announced. It's a 192kHz-compatible 2U rack-mountable hardware device that can accurately emulate every microphone pre-amp (mic-pre) and compressor combination in history, according to the company. It comes with 40 mic-pre replicas and 40 classic compressor replicas that you can mix and match, with the ability to store the results in one of 100 memory slots. Additional replicas can be downloaded from the Liquid Channel Web site. You can control up to eight Liquid Channel units remotely with Focusrite's Liquid Control application; a USB port on the back of the device plugs into your Mac. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.2.8 or higher, USB 1.1 or 2.0 and 5MB of hard drive space. The suggested price is US$3,495. [MacCentral]

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Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday announced three new dual-processor Power Mac G5 configurations, with the fastest model topping out at 2.5GHz. The new high-end systems miss the 3GHz mark that Apple CEO Steve Jobs said the company would achieve at last year's Worldwide Developers Conference, but Tom Boger, Apple's Director of Power Mac Product Marketing said it came down to a technology challenge that was bigger than they expected. Boger also said today that users shouldn't expect to see a PowerBook G5s before the end of the year because of the challenges of putting the G5 in a small enclosure. [MacCentral]

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The new Power Mac G5 desktop line features dual 64-bit PowerPC G5 processors on every model. The top model, featuring two 2.5 GHz processors, the industry’s fastest front-side bus running at 1.25 GHz per processor and advanced liquid cooling starts at $2,999. The entry model, featuring dual 1.8 GHz processors, starts at just $1,999. [Jun 9] [Apple Hot News]

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The new book by Christopher Ricks, a professor of poetry at Oxford, devotes some 500 pages to a close analysis of Bob Dylan's greatest hits. [New York Times: Arts]

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D-day anniversary: Getting on the wrong bus usually spells disaster, but for one veteran on it led to the ride of a lifetime. [Guardian Unlimited] 'Keith Coleman, a former RAF gunner from New Zealand, had been hoping the coach he jumped on after the main international D-day ceremony in Arromanches would take him back to Paris. Instead he ended up stranded at a remote military airfield.

But help came from a most unexpected quarter when the 86-year-old was invited by President Jacques Chirac to fly back to the French capital on board one of the country's presidential jets.'

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Administration lawyers concluded in March 2003 that the president was not bound by a treaty prohibiting torture. [New York Times: International]

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Forced nudity of prisoners was pervasive at Abu Ghraib, so much so that soldiers later said they had not seen "the whole nudity thing" as abusive. [New York Times: International]

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Business: Microsoft reveals that it held merger talks with German rival SAP in what would have been its biggest ever acquisition. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Theresa's new boss, I guess.

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Loosely based on Alberta's Banff Centre of the Arts, the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts is the vision of Ken Schwartz and Chris O'Neill.

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CBC News: Calling all music fans: Telus becomes naming donor to Royal Conservatory reno
The Royal Conservatory of Music's renewal project got one of its biggest boosts Tuesday, as Telus pledged $10 million towards the Toronto-based school's new facilities.

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CBC News: IN BRIEF: Cdn. pianist's 2nd chance nets 2nd place, more
A Newfoundland cancer survivor who put her concert pianist days aside for her family has placed second in an international piano competition.

Gander's Averill Piers Baker placed second Saturday at the fourth Van Cliburn Foundation International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs.

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Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory...

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Classical label Naxos turns to Internet streaming, Warren Lee , Korea Herald, 6/8/2004 [La Scena Musicale - News] 'Though access to the online library has been sold to universities and libraries, Naxos is making it available to individual subscribers in Korea to boost its brand-name image and to compensate for flagging CD sales.'

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Smog Advisory In Effect [Toronto, Ontario, Weather]

It was that kind of day.