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Spotted this on a page on VOIP at Macintouch. I'm probably going to get one of these eventually. .< 7:05:51 PM  >Wozniak joins Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joined 10 other inductees at the Consumer Electronics Association's (CEA) Hall of Fame awards dinner, held last week in San Francisco, Calif. [Via MacCentral] .< 6:47:46 PM >Snow! Snow! Yup - it's here. We got about a foot of snow yesterday. I was sliding around town with my summer tires on, so job number one today is to get the winter ones put on. It's cold too - about minus 8 this morning. I've got a fire going in the wood stove and a big pot of chili cooking for dinner, so we're set for the day. [Via Janet's Radio Weblog] In the Yukon. .< 6:46:16 PM >iPod Photo iPod Photo, newest member of the iPod family, holds up to 25,000 digital photos alongside your music library and displays them on its stunning high-resolution color screen. iPod Photo, which lets you combine your music and your favorite photos to create magical slideshows on your iPod, features TV-out for sharing your slideshows on big screen televisions and projectors. iPod Photo comes in 40GB or 60GB models. [Oct 26] [Via Apple Hot News]
Canuck pricing for the 40 Gig iPod Photo is $679 and for the regular iPod $559. .< 4:16:25 PM >Apple Launches EU iTunes Music Store Apple® today launched a European Union version of its revolutionary iTunes® Music Store, giving music fans in Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain the same innovative features and breakthrough price of o0.99 per song that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. With Apple[base ']s legendary ease of use, pioneering features such as iMix playlist sharing, seamless integration with iPod® and groundbreaking personal use rights, the iTunes Music Store is the best way for PC and Mac® users to legally discover, purchase and download music online. Apple today also announced it will launch the iTunes Music Store in Canada in November. Yes! Happy to be launcing with other Europeans. .< 4:13:34 PM >Apple: iPods, iTunes Stores, "Box Set" Apple announced the iPod Photo with a color screen and video output, the iPod U2 Special Edition in black and red, a 400-tune U2 "box set" download and new iTunes stores for Canada and Europe. [Via MacInTouch] Wow! Big news. At last, an iTunes store for Canucks. .< 10:28:20 AM >Blog Reruns IM is great for instant collaboration on projects, but it kills your hands typing too much for little gain. Worse, you lose some of the interaction that a phone call can allow like people keeping to one topic at a time. With staff in Texas, Canada, Missouri and Californina it is nearly impossible to afford phone calls. Skype has been a blessing in working with Patrick Ritchie on code, but it's a processor killer. [Via house of warwick] .< 10:22:54 AM >System X supercomputer speeds up almost 20 percent Virginia Tech's all-Mac System X supercomputer, installed at the university's Terascale Computing Facility, made headlines last year when it was determined to be the third-fastest supercomputer in the world. System X has been upgraded to Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve G5 server and now runs even faster, with a sustained speed of 12.25 trillion operations per second -- 19 percent faster than before. [Via MacCentral] .< 10:22:21 AM >A dose of reality in the hype - it's not a virus Please, people, this is much ado about nothing. Use a good administrator password, install software updates, use your brain before running scripts called Opener. Duh. [Via Mac Net Journal] .< 10:20:44 AM >Loonie hits 82 cents US The loonie gained more altitude on Monday, crossing the 82-cent-US level for the first time in 12 years as the U.S. dollar continued to slip in foreign exchange markets. [Via CBC News] .< 10:20:03 AM >The CIA's Disappeared THE BUSH administration pretends, and many Americans may believe, that the abuse of U.S.-held prisoners abroad ended after the release of sensational photographs from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Sadly, it did not. While blaming the crimes at Abu Ghraib on a small group of low-ranking soldiers, the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA have fought to preserve the exceptional and sometimes secret policies that allow U.S. personnel to violate the Geneva Conventions and other laws governing the handling and interrogation of foreign detainees. Under those policies, practices at odds with basic American values continue -- even if there are no sensational photos to document them. [Via washingtonpost.com - Editorials] Get these people out of the White House and then charge them with war crimes. .< 10:16:31 AM >John Peel dies aged 65 2.15pm: Veteran DJ and broadcaster John Peel, 65, has died after suffering a heart attack while on a working holiday in Peru. [Via Guardian Unlimited] .< 10:16:10 AM >Murdoch: Fox News does not favour Bush Media: Rupert Murdoch has claimed his Fox News channel is not biased in favour of George Bush. [Via Guardian Unlimited] You don't expect his to start telling the truth now. .< 10:13:55 AM >Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | Hollow Victory It was Monday morning, the first day of early voting in Florida, and only an hour went by before the system collapsed in Broward County, ground zero for the 2000 fiasco in the state. Potential voters were turned away in this heavily Democratic county as election officials delivered a litany of excuses. The person in charge of elections is the secretary of state, Glenda Hood, a Republican. It was an inauspicious beginning to Florida's election season, and a reminder that Democrats must remain vigilant against Republican efforts to steal yet another election. And in that regard, Republicans have been mighty busy.
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These efforts are not isolated incidents, but part of the Republican Party's "Victory" programme. While ostensibly a voter registration and "get out the vote" operation, the programme includes a concerted nationwide effort by Republicans to lock in their electoral gains by any and all means necessary. Sounds like partisan rhetoric, sure, until you hear it from the source. Alluding to the fraud committed by his party in his home state of South Dakota, former Republican governor and congressman Bill Janklow told the Associated Press last week that the entire Victory programme is rife with electoral fraud: "These people are cheating. When you tamper with it, you cheat the system. And cheating in elections is the worst form of cancer because it's uncontrollable." Here's hoping Moulitsas isn't just seeing what he wants to see. .< 1:18:48 AM >Clinton boost for Kerry campaign Comeback Kid returns to centre stage, proving his ailing heart is still in the fight. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] Just seeing a tiny clip of Clinton in action today illustrated how poor the current candidates look by comparison. .< 12:51:52 AM >6,000 BBC jobs may go in quest for new charter Media: Union braces for 'very tough year' resulting from new director general's root and branch review. [Via Guardian Unlimited] .< 12:45:27 AM >Rick Steves on the value of travel Travel can help mend a fractured world (USA Today, 17 October 2004)
[Via The Practical Nomad] .< 12:32:38 AM >Vote Kerry If I haven't said it before, I'm voting for John Kerry. I voted for Al Gore in 2000, and was sorry he wasn't allowed to serve. I was dubious about Bush, then cautiously optimistic, then horribly disappointed. [Via GlennLog] .< 12:27:36 AM >Malware on the Mac? Well, kinda Smart Windows users don't hesitate to use antivirus software. What excuse have smart Mac users got? [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] 'While Opener certainly could cause some pretty nasty damage to any disk it infected, it lacks the crucial element that makes a virus a virus: a means to propagate itself from one machine to the next.' .< 12:09:51 AM >The Wonder of RSS Feeds As the saying goes: “Be careful what you wish for!” We wanted instant access to information. The Internet gave it to us. In spades. And now, many people are trying to turn OFF the tap. Or at least get a handle on all the web pages, news groups, and blogs we have to keep up on just to do our jobs. The CBC’s technology columnist Tod Maffin has a solution. [Via /Nerd: CBC Radio's Technology Column] A milestone? This might be the first officially sanctioned RSS feed from the CBC, something many of us have been asking for for some time. Oh wait, there is a genuine milestone: the CBC's' first podcast. |
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