One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Wednesday, 14 July 2004

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US 'needs terror policy debate'

A senior US intelligence official tells the BBC the American-led war in Iraq was "a gift of epic proportions" to Osama Bin Laden. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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Arts: Images etched into the roof of a Nottinghamshire cave around 13,000 years ago are hailed as 'masterpieces'. [Guardian Unlimited]

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World: Three children whose boat capsized in shark-infested seas survived for six days on oysters and coconut milk after swimming six miles to a deserted island. [Guardian Unlimited]

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A former Mexican president has told prosecutors he was innocent of wrongdoing in a 1971 killing of some 26 student protesters, a case seen as emblematic of past state repression. [Reuters: World]

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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair and Britain's secret services faced fresh embarrassment over Iraq on Wednesday from a report expected to pick holes in London's case for war against Saddam Hussein. [Reuters: World]

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Democrats claim the document could help clear up exactly what intelligence agencies told the president about Iraq's weapons. [New York Times: International]

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Google bought Picasa Inc., a company that makes technology to help consumers organize and display photos online. [New York Times: Technology]

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Dave sez: El Universal (Mexico City) is reporting that the Attorney General of Mexico, Rafael Macedo, had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted. Link [Boing Boing]

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The Simple Brilliance of Webstractor (12-Jul-2004; 12.4K) [TidBITS] 'Perhaps you'll use Webstractor simply to make up for Safari's inability to save Internet Explorer-like Web archives; perhaps you'll use it to assemble parts of Web pages as a vast set of notes for some research project. In any case, you'll surely find it easy, fun, intuitive, and darned clever.'

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Here in Part 2 of this multi-article series on tapping the power of the SSH server inside your Mac, François Joseph de Kermadec shows you how to securely fire up the Secure Shell and start communicating. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

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