One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 18 October 2004

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Last 100 Podcasts

Dave just completed an important piece to our iPodder infrastructure. audio.weblogs.com now represents the last 100 podcasts available. The list updates when a fresh podcast is found in the directory or if it receives a ping.
[Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

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Special Apple music event planned for Oct. 26

Select members of the press on Monday received an invitation to to a special Apple event taking place at the California Theatre in San Jose, Calif. The theme of the event would appear to be musically-related and is capitalizing on Apple's recently unveiled iPod and iTunes Music Store promotion with legendary rock band U2, judging from the invitation received by MacCentral. "Steve Jobs, Bono and The Edge invite you to attend a special event," reads the top of the invitation. The invitation-only event is scheduled to take place at 10AM Pacific Time on October 26, 2004.
[Via MacCentral]

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Mac Takes Honors as Best Unix Desktop
Somewhere along the line, we over in the Linux/Unix/AIX/Solaris world seem to have forgotten that Macs are now Unix workstations.

Under every bright, shiny Mac desktop beats a Unix heart named Darwin. Darwin, in turn, is built on top of Mach 3.0 operating-system services, which run on top of the 4.4 BSD Unix operating system.

KDE and GNOME have both gotten much better, but let's get real. They're not even in the same ballpark.

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Tips a-Plenty on Podcasting!

I've just posted about 30 essays that will hopefully help podcasters -- all on the topic of broadcasting for beginners... from microphones to how to interview people. You can find them at http://radio.blogware.com/blog/Podcasting101

[Via I Love Radio .org]

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US Commander in Iraq Complained of Shortages -Report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former top U.S. commander in Iraq complained last winter to the Pentagon that a poor supply situation was threatening the Army's ability to fight, The Washington Post reported on its Web site on Sunday.
[Via Reuters: World]

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Thousands of Anti-War Protesters March in London

LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of anti-war campaigners took to the streets of London Sunday calling for an end to the "illegal occupation" of Iraq by U.S-led coalition troops.
[Via Reuters: World]

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Blast in Mexico Subway Station Kills One (AP)

AP - A gas leak triggered an explosion in the control room of a subway station in the northern city of Monterrey, killing one person and injuring 13 others, authorities said Sunday.
[Via Yahoo! News - World]

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UN Urged to Ignore Bush Plea for Human Cloning Ban (Reuters)

Reuters - Britain's national academy of science urged the United Nations on Monday to ignore a call by President Bush to ban all forms of human cloning.
[Via Yahoo! News - World]

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Ex-Guantánamo workers claim abuse was widespread

New report says abusive treatment of inmates at Guantánamo Bay is far more widespread than the Pentagon has admitted.
[Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest]

'One "regular procedure" was making prisoners strip to their underwear, sit on a chair while their hands and feet were shackled to a bolt on the ground, while they were subjected to strobe lights, loud music (reportedly by Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine and Eminem) and cold. Such sessions could go on for up to 14 hours, with a few breaks.

"It fried them," one official was quoted as saying. Another said: "They were very wobbly. They came back to their cells and were completely out of it."'

These people are being held illegally and have yet to divulge any useful information because they are innocent or so far down the foodchain that they have nothing to offer.

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