One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Tuesday, 14 September 2004

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Security Update 2004-09-07 revised

Apple has released Security Update 2004-09-07 version 1.1. If you're confused about the title of this update given the current date, it's because this is an updated version of the security update first released last week. [MacCentral]

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Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced plans to acquire online music service Musicmatch Inc. in a cash deal valued at US$160 million. It's Yahoo's maneuver to become a player in the online digital music download world, currently dominated by Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store, and populated by a variety of other competitors including Napster, Microsoft's MSN Music, Wal-Mart and others. [MacCentral]

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Mountain View-based startup, AudioFeast Inc., allows Windows users to download the latest news, sports, and entertainment information to their compatible music players. [MacCentral]

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If Europeans could vote in the U.S. presidential election, they would pick John Kerry over George W. Bush by a nearly 6-to-1 majority, the latest HI Europe poll shows.

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

The world is watching. This one matters. It's going to be awfully hard to cut US Americans any slack if they vote Bush back into power.

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A friend asked what Osama bin Laden wants. He's pretty much told us. First and foremost he wants westerners out of Saudi Arabia. Presumably when that happens the Saudi government will fall and he'll take over. Fundamentalists already control Iran, and are maneuvering to take control in Iraq. So, just a guess, in a year, maybe two, maybe five, they will control the three largest proven oil reserves in the world. At that point they won't need bombs and airplanes to strangle the US economy, just cut off the credit, no more loans, no more financing the trillion dollar deficit. Sad thing is there's nothing anyone can do about this, that's what Scott Rosenberg said yesterday. Bush has dug the hole so deep that there's no hope. So when he asks what Kerry's plan is, well, basically we'll make the best of a very bad situation, which you created, Mr President. As voters, the most expedient way to tell the world we know we fucked up is to get rid of Bush, now that we have a chance to. Rush Limbaugh and his dittoheads won't like this, but a vote for Bush is a vote for the Islamic Revolution. He's their best guy (hey he gave them Iraq). [Scripting News]

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Stephen Evans describes the mood in the US on the third anniversary of the 11 September attacks. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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John Kerry criticises President Bush for failing to push for an extended ban on assault weapons. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]

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AFP - Pakistan has killed some 150 foreign fighters during its 11-month battle against militants in the country's tribal belt, but senior leaders, including Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, continue to elude authorities, a military spokesman has said. [Yahoo! News - World]

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On Sunday, 13 Iraqis died when US helicopters fired on a crowd of unarmed civilians. Guardian columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad was there. [Guardian Unlimited]

They managed to take out a journalist while he was on camera.