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  Friday, 1 October 2004

.< 6:15:21 PM >
The Nation : "Bush only arrived with...

The Nation: "Bush only arrived with 30 minutes of material for a 90 minute debate. And he had a very hard time stretching." [Scripting News]



.< 6:15:01 PM >
Fox News publishes made-up Kerry quotes, then pulls story without comment

Mark Frauenfelder: According to Talking Points Memo, Fox News ran a story with made-up quotes from Kerry, then yanked them without explanation.

Some of the quotes:

"Didn't my nails and cuticles look great? What a good debate!" Kerry said Friday.

Women should like me! I do manicures"

About himself and the president: "I'm metrosexual — he's a cowboy."

Talking Points Memo has contacted Fox News for a comment. He's waiting to hear back from them. Link [Boing Boing]



.< 5:49:48 PM >
nbc4: 'Podcasting' Brings Personalized Audio Programs To Your Media Player
Podcasting is a term that is probably unfamiliar to most people, but it represents a real potential change in the radio landscape. A small group of enthusiasts has begun cobbling together a way to easily share homemade radio shows, eventually allowing people to reach large numbers of listeners by completely bypassing the current structure of radio.

Here is the non-technical explanation:

.< 2:44:12 AM >
Editing Other People's Videos

Interesting article in today's New York Times about companies that will edit up the video footage that you've shot and never gotten around to viewing or editing: For Neglected Video, a Hollywood Touch. "The problem people have with their home... [iMovie Visual QuickStart Guide]



.< 2:38:57 AM >
Radio 8.1 comes tonight

Radio 8.1 is coming tonight. Make sure Radio is set to pick up root updates and you'll get the changes. Special thanks to Patrick Ritchie, Lawrence Lee and the beta testers on the radio-dev email list for helping us pull this release together.

There's more to come in the next couple of weeks including comment and trackback deletion plus upstreaming improvements. [house of warwick]



.< 2:34:49 AM >
New Guardian Unlimited RSS feeds

Guardian Unlimited now provides a wider range of RSS feeds, including a new version of this feed. More information is available a. We encourage all RSS subscribers to switch to the new feeds - including the a for this feed, which will stop being updated in a few weeks. [Guardian Unlimited]

Thanks for the heads up!



.< 2:32:57 AM >
Dollar closing in on 80 cents US

The Canadian dollar continued its steady climb Thursday, pushing past 79 cents US with little resistance. FULL STORY [CBC News]



.< 2:31:40 AM >
Canada stalls China on refugees

Canada says it will not, for now, hand over a group of North Koreans who stormed its embassy in Beijing. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]



.< 2:30:13 AM >
Dozens of children among 44 killed in Baghdad

World: Three car bombs explode in a coordinated attack in Baghdad leaving 44 people dead and more than 200 injured. [Guardian Unlimited]



.< 2:28:50 AM >
Bush and Kerry clash over Iraq

Presidential candidates clash over Iraq and homeland security in debate. [Guardian Unlimited]



.< 2:27:27 AM >
With Russia's Nod, Treaty on Emissions Clears Last Hurdle

Russia's cabinet endorsed the long-delayed Kyoto Protocol on global warming and sent it to parliament. [New York Times: International]

Fantastic



.< 2:22:36 AM >
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
More than 60 years after Prescott Bush came briefly under scrutiny at the time of a faraway war, his grandson is facing a different kind of scrutiny but one underpinned by the same perception that, for some people, war can be a profitable business.

.< 2:01:01 AM >
.Mac bumps up storage capacity, improves mail

Apple Computer Inc. has improved the services offered to subscribers of .Mac, including an increase in the amount of online data storage to 250MB. [Computerworld Macintosh News]



.< 1:49:07 AM >
AM/FM Radio with Time Shift Recording
RadioSHARK includes a full-featured application that controls all radio and recording functions. Favorite station presets can be set with the click of a mouse, and new stations can be scanned and tuned with ease. The application is also where you program Time-Shift Recording, either to take a break without missing any of a show or to record your favorite broadcast to listen to later.

The RadioSHARK connects to and is powered by USB. The fin-shaped device acts as an antenna and can be positioned for best reception and recording. Any recorded broadcast can be transferred to an iPod or any other AIFF-compatible digital music player to replay on the go.

.< 12:06:54 AM >
Inside Adobe's New Digital Negative Format

When Adobe speaks about camera raw problems, people listen. And the software giant spoke loudly on Monday when it released an update to the free Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop CS. The plug-in update adds support for a new Adobe-proposed file format for digital negatives—a clever marketing name the company wants to use to replace the less-friendly camera raw. [MacCentral]



.< 12:03:26 AM >
After tonight's debate, if the US re-elects...

After tonight's debate, if the US re-elects Bush, we totally deserve whatever happens to us. Kerry will make an excellent President. [Scripting News]






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