One Canuck's Radio Weblog

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After suffering a sharp drop last winter, illegal music file-sharing appears to be on the rise again and few Canadians have visited the new "legal" sites, according to a Toronto-based research firm. [CBC Arts News]

< 10:37:57 PM >

Universal Music International says that several of their European SA-CD releases have reached Gold or Silver record sales status, including Sting's 'Sacred Love' and Michel Sardou's 'Du Plaisir' (High Fidelity Review, 24-Jun-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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Not only (as previously noted) can you use the 'Esc' key to cancel a drag-and-drop operation, such as moving a file or folder, but it can also cancel Finder window dragging. [macosxhints]

< 6:29:09 PM >

I hate all the copyright stuff and other unimportant notices on DVDs. When I launch DVD Player, I like to jump straight to the film. So I find the following AppleScript to be awfully useful for me. tell application "DVD Playe... [macosxhints]

< 6:27:06 PM >

Walt Mossberg writes for the Wall Street Journal, “Just this week, Apple and BMW introduced the ultimate iPod accessory — a $50,000 BMW automobile… But you don’t have to buy a BMW to juice up your iPod. My assistant Katie Boehret and I have been testing a bunch of modestly priced iPod add-ons, including voice recorders, remote controls, portable speakers, radio transmitters and digital photo adapters.” [Jun 23] [Apple Hot News]

< 6:24:27 PM >

Many scenes like this one in Beaubien Park played out last night; the city's very quiet today as everyone sleeps off the party. [montreal city weblog]

Montrealers know how to live.

< 6:22:04 PM >

Apple says it's conducted the first ground-to-air videoconference using iChat AV and the wireless high-speed broadband connection in a Lufthansa-owned Boeing 777 between Munich and San Francisco. Well, first "not counting Air Force One or other ultra-expensive solutions," says Apple... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide]

< 6:16:56 PM >

One year ago today the BBC released 68 new RSS 0.91 feeds, with an open, permanent and free archive, no membership required. This changed the syndication world in a big way. [Scripting News]

< 6:13:51 PM >

On this day five years ago I explained how syndication and aggregation works to DaveNet readers. There were three Manila sites at that time. Scripting News, Buck's Woodside, and The Great VaVaVoom. Quite a bootstrap would happen in our world in the coming year. [Scripting News]

Thanks Dave. You changed the world.

< 6:09:30 PM >

Press review: The US critics' verdict on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. [Guardian Unlimited]
US critics find Michael Moore's anti-Bush missive entertaining and persuasive, even must-see cinema. Just don't call it a 'documentary'

< 4:42:09 PM >

Citing national security concerns, the agency tries to keep a critical Intelligence Committee document name-free [TIME's Top Stories]

< 4:40:51 PM >

A new book by a serving US intelligence official sees the West losing the battle against al-Qaeda. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] 'The 309-page Imperial Hubris is the latest book to attack the Bush administration in an election year - many written by former officials with an axe to grind.

But correspondents say this book is unprecedented as it is the work of an official with long years of counter-terrorism experience, who is still active in the US intelligence community.

The fact that the authorities allowed the book's publication could reflect the increasing frustration of senior intelligence officials at the course the administration has taken, comments Britain's Guardian newspaper, which says it has spoken to the author. [snip]

Anonymous believes Mr Bush is taking the US in exactly the direction Bin Laden wants, towards all-out confrontation with Islam under the banner of spreading democracy '

< 4:36:39 PM >

Special investigation: Detainees routinely tortured, Guardian investigation finds. [Guardian Unlimited]

< 4:33:18 PM >

The U.S. pilot who bombed and killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan struck a deal on Thursday to avoid a court martial. [CBC News]

Cowboy gets a slap on the wrist and he can do it all over again. At least his partner had the decency to retire.

< 4:30:23 PM >

Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - A man who told police he was bent on a murderous rampage thought people in his native New Brunswick were nice, so he planned to move his shooting spree to Toronto instead - until a friendly dog changed his mind about the city's residents. The man drove from the Maritimes with a carload of guns and ammunition intending to kill as many people in Toronto as he could before a last-minute encounter with a woman and her dogs convinced him Torontonians are nice, too. [Yahoo! News - World]

< 4:26:11 PM >

The attacks, which killed about 70 people, could be the opening salvo in a violent push to undermine the June 30 transfer of sovereignty. [New York Times: International]

< 12:23:34 AM >

The DualDisc format, which combines multichannel DVD-Audio and/or DVD-Video content on one side of a double-sided disc, with standard 2-channel CD audio on the other side, has been approved by the DVD Forum standards group (High Fidelity Review, 14-Jun-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

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< 12:15:32 AM >

A Vancouver man disappointed by the lack of debate about cultural issues during the election campaign took matters into his own hands and organized an all-candidates debate about the arts Tuesday night. [CBC Arts News]

< 12:07:50 AM >

A concert at Carnegie Hall on Monday paid tribute to the singer, pianist and sometime songwriter Nina Simone, who was once labeled the High Priestess of Soul. [New York Times: Arts]

The real thing. Pure music.

< 12:05:50 AM >

A group of young filmmakers are packing into a mobile studio and heading out to visit First Nations communities in Quebec to give young aboriginals a taste of the moviemaking life. [CBC Arts News]