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Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, who in giving his creation to the world for free changed it forever, is finally compensated with a $1 million prize from a Finnish tech foundation. [New York Times: Technology] .< 12:57:40 PM  >New 'Hiccup' for Florida Voters The Sunshine State's election controversies continue to unfold: Now the state admits that a number of e-voting machines have a software flaw that makes manual recounting impossible. But things will work out, officials say. [Wired News] .< 12:38:55 PM >Roll your own pirate radio station with an iPod BoingBoing reader Philip says, "After playing around with the new iTrip mini, the FM broadcasting accessory for the iPod our little minds got working on some ideas. We thought we might be able to make the range of Griffin's iTrip mini a little better if took it apart and exposed the antenna, turns out we could. And then we thought, hey -- we could use a couple iPods to broadcast something we wanted to get out there. Perhaps not 'should' that is, but could. Here's the How To." .< 9:27:30 AM >Al-Qaeda 'postponed 9/11 attack' The 11 September 2001 attacks were originally planned to take place months earlier, according to the Washington Post. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 9:26:29 AM >Jail abuse 'ordered by top Iraq commander' The US commander at the centre of the Iraqi prisoner scandal says she was told to treat detainees like dogs. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 9:25:24 AM >Licensing row mars iTunes launch Media: Franz Ferdinand, Basement Jaxx and the White Stripes are refusing to license music to iTunes, causing a setback to Apple's music download service hours before its European launch. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 1:49:54 AM >CBC News:Publisher Jack McClelland dies When he took over he transformed the company by encouraging, supporting and publishing a new generation of Canadian writers, including such giants of Canadian literature as Irving Layton, Margaret Laurence, Leonard Cohen , Mordecai Richler, Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findlay. .< 1:44:58 AM >CBC News:Hispanics fastest growing segment of U.S. population Hispanics, the largest minority group in the U.S. saw there numbers rise by 13 per cent between April 2000 and July 2003 to 39.9 million, according to Census Bureau figures released Monday.
Those numbers far outpaced the 3 per cent increase in the American population during the same time period. More than 10,000 Mexicans work in Canada each year, mainly in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba.
The program was started to help fill worker shortages in agriculture, but has been so successful that Canadian officials are expanding it to urban, unemployed Mexicans who seek the low-skill jobs that Canadians don't want, in construction, the hotel industry and meatpacking plants. Copyright has become an election issue in Canada, and with the federal election looming on the 28th (I've cast my absentee ballot, for Olivia Chow, and have my fingers crossed for a nation run as well as Toronto was under Jack Layton) the copyfight is heating up back in my homeland. Link
(Thanks, Donna!) [Boing Boing] Coolio. Corey and I are in the same riding. Olivia could win though she has to dump a longtime Liberal. Jack should win his riding but hasn't a hope of leading the country . . . although he may hold the balance of power. |
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