One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 12 July 2004

.< 8:35:47 PM >
Fahrenheit 911 factchecks

Here are Michael Moore's extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911.

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(via Kottke) [Boing Boing]

< 8:17:25 PM >

We had a colleague staying overnight in Charlottetown on Saturday, headed for a 6:15 a.m. flight on Sunday morning. She overslept, and awoke with a start at 5:38 a.m. She made the flight with time to spare -- indeed she had to wait in line at the check-in counter.

Try that in Toronto. [Reinvented News]

Been there. Done that. Peter's right. In YYZ it doesn't work!

< 8:14:37 PM >

Rain, golf-ball-sized hail and tornadoes pound Alberta's capital, surrounding area
[GAM-National] 'Edmonton ground almost to halt yesterday due to a punishing rain and hail storm believed to have caused at least tens of millions of dollars in damage to the city's famous West Edmonton Mall, while people outside the city were mopping up damage after at least two tornadoes touched down.'

< 7:44:04 PM >

La Cie: $2199 1.6TB Firewire external disk. [Scripting News]

Big

< 7:38:41 PM >

Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold 100 million songs, according to a graphic that greets visitors to Apple's Web site home page. "100 million songs have been legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store. A major milestone for online music," reads the image. [MacCentral]

< 7:26:59 PM >

HaranBanjo has released KidzLog 1.0, a new Weblog publishing tool for Mac OS X and Windows that's been especially designed for kids. The software publishes chronologically descending posts, and provides canvas and painting tools, as well as support for digital photos. KidzLog produces CSS-based Web pages and RSS-based syndication, and publishes out to remote Web servers using FTP. The software costs US$29. [MacCentral]

< 3:24:03 PM >

Jaguar Motor Co. is offering visitors to its X-Type Web site the opportunity to win a limited edition black Apple iPod. There were a total of 75 black iPods made, but there is only one left, which will be given away on August 1, 2004 from Jaguar's Web site. [MacCentral]

< 3:16:38 PM >

Built on the success of its well-received DVD-HD931 DVD player, the DVD-HD841 is the latest DVD player from Samsung that features 720p/1080i upscaling capability via DVI-HDCP output. However, this new model is also the first DVD player that not only has HD-upscaling capability, but also features SACD and DVD-Audio multi-channel audio playback as well. [About Home Theater]

Street about US$175

< 3:13:16 PM >

Daniel, if the Republicans ran a candidate who wasn't so un-American, who understood he has to work within the Constitution, not push it aside, who will commit to not start more wars under false pretenses (e.g. the connection betw Iraq and al Quaeda, missing proof of WMDs), someone we can trust with the incredible power of the US, I would consider voting for him. Kerry is not my idea of a great leader for the US, but you got it right, a lot of people will vote for him if Bush is the Republican nominee, solely because we are so scared what the US and world will look like given four more years of Bush. I am one of them. Kerry may turn out to be a disaster for this country, but we already know Bush is. If ever it was time for the lesser of two evils, this is it. [Scripting News]

< 3:11:21 PM >

Steve Gillmor: "When Microsoft abandoned Internet Explorer development to concentrate on fixing the browser's security vulnerabilities, it opened the door to the emerging RSS revolution." [Scripting News]