Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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You Gotta Love It
It was 11 o'clock at night on Summer Solstice. I was sitting at Alan's soccer game wearing sunglasses and a sun hat. This is truely an incredible place to live! [Janet's Radio Weblog]
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Canada's new quarter

The contest to design a commemorative quarter for this year's Canada Day was won by an 11-year-old from BC with this great, cartoony design. I think this is the best coin I've ever seen.
Link
(Thanks, Ben!)
[Boing Boing]
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AppleInsider | Signs point to major overhaul of the Apple iMac
The new iMac will reportedly sport single Power PC G5 processors at speeds below 2GHz and feature a completely redesigned enclosure. Details are sketchy, but one source, who has provided accurate information on previous projects, claims that the new iMac will sport a vertical "pizza box" physique with the main logic board mounted vertically behind the computer's LCD screen.
Multiple reports indicate that Apple plans to introduce the new iMac G5 as early as Monday's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC), where CEO Steve Jobs may choose to showcase the computer.
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H.264 Video Codec for Next-Generation DVDs
The DVD Forum has ratified the H.264 Advanced Video Codec for the next-generation High Definition DVD format. Jointly developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group and the International Telecommunication Union, H.264/AVC will ship in QuickTime software next year. [Jun 23] [Apple Hot News]
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More Praise for Elliot Scheiner's Surround Prowess
Surround engineer Elliot Scheiner continues to win accolades for his work as the leading practitioner of the 5.1 surround re-mix, at least in the popular music field, with the recent Verve DVD-Audio release of Aaron Neville's 'Nature Boy - The Standards Album' (AudioWorld, 20-Jun-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]
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ProSoundNews Online Daily - Telos-Omnia Demonstrates Coded-Discrete Surround Sound for HD Radio
Telos System/Omnia Audio will demonstrate their "Coded Discrete" 5.1-Channel Surround Sound system for HD Radio to radio programmers at the annual Radio & Records convention in Los Angeles this week. The new system works with the existing HD Radio codec and transmission equipment and is fully compatible with stereo broadcasts.
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