One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 14 October 2004

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AnandTech
What you are about to read are my impressions, as a devout PC user, of the Apple way of life.

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An easy way to use .Mac aliases in Mail

If you want use the new .mac email aliases feature in Apple's Mail, here is an easy way to do it:Delete your current .mac account from the Preferences Pane. Recreate the account, but choose IMAP instead of .Mac for the accoun... [macosxhints]

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Yamaha 01X
Digidesign Digi 002
Tascam FW-1884 [MacCentral]

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Ten or more years of mobile phone use can dramatically increase the risk of developing a benign tumor on the auditory nerve, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. [MacCentral]

The auditory nerve. Benign.

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Summary: Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing! [Scripting News] Dave digs the new Google Desktop. I dig the idea, but it won't run on my Mac.

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - More than 250 world figures -- but not the Bush administration -- have urged the United Nations to promote a population agenda that seeks women's education, health care and family planning. [Reuters: World] 'The United States refused to support a statement from presidents, prime ministers and Nobel Prize winners, released on Wednesday, because it included the concept of "sexual rights," which had no "agreed definition," a State Department letter said.'

What a bunch of backwards creatures. God help us.

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Saudis have expressed anger at the U.S. for its invasion of Iraq, which they say touched off terror attacks inside the kingdom. [New York Times: International] 'Seventeen months into a shadowy terror campaign that has killed more than 100 people, numerous Saudis express less anger at the insurgents than at the United States for its invasion of Iraq, the signal event that they say touched off the attacks inside the kingdom.

In interviews over the last week, the Saudis condemned the terror attacks, aimed primarily at foreigners, but called them a small inconvenience that has not forced them to make significant changes in their daily lives. By contrast, they expressed unremitting disdain for the United States.'

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Canadian Press - TORONTO (CP) - More than two dozen U.S. seniors and patients rolled into Toronto Wednesday night aboard the "Rx Express," a chartered train on a whistle-stop tour to buy lower-cost Canadian prescription drugs. [Yahoo! News - World]

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AP - Leftist Zapatista rebels announced Wednesday they will voluntarily withdraw seven squatter settlements from an endangered jungle nature reserve, a move that may mark the end a decade-long standoff with authorities. [Yahoo! News - World]

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AP - As of Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004, 1,081 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Defense Department. Of those, 825 died as a result of hostile action and 256 died of non-hostile causes. The figures include three military civilians. [Yahoo! News - World]

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Online Journalism Review: "...Convergence, ubiquity and connectivity are going to change society as we know it. Podcasting is only at the very tip of this." [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Dave Winer posts: "Seriously, if you vote for Bush and he wins, we're going to blame you for what happens in the next four years." That sounds like a seriously flawed perspective in any democracy. This shouldn't be an "us against them" discussion. Regardless of who wins the election, we are all still citizens of the USA living under, and supporting (I hope) a common belief in our constitution. Differences are going to exist. Differences in interpretation of the constitution, differences in our beliefs about what is wrong in our country and the world, differences in whom we think can best lead our country. That is OK. Hey, it sure beats a one party system. Let us talk like reasonable men and women and put ridicule behind us. Let us agree to reasonably disagree without smirking, winking, and suggesting the opposition might have less brainpower than we do. [On The Mark]

Ooph. 1+3=zebra.

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Xeni Jardin: Smoking Gun says:

Hours after Bill O'Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you'll find a copy of Andrea Mackris's complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O'Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based on the extensive quotations cited in the complaint, it appears a safe bet that Mackris, 33, recorded some of O'Reilly's more steamy soliloquies. For example, we direct you to his Caribbean shower fantasies. While we suggest reading the entire document, TSG will point you to interesting sections on a Thailand sex show, Al Franken, and the climax of one August 2004 phone conversation. (22 pages)

I hope this brings the freak down.