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October surprise. .< 10:16:55 PM  >Surround 2004: Greg Penny Offers Sneak Preview... While it wasn't on the show program, one of the highlights of the recent Surround 2004 Conference in Hollywood was a sneak preview of the upcoming Surround Sound Super Audio CDs by Elton John. The sneak preview was offered by producer and engineer Greg Penny who is heading up the remixing and remastering of the singer's classic catalog albums into 5.1 Surround Sound. [Via DVD-Audio and SACD News] Some insight into Penny's approach to mixing in surround. .< 9:58:44 PM >The Best Moments Had Less to Do with the Mac In a week that featured the Boston Red Sox ending decades of frustration by winning the World Series, a blood red lunar eclipse hanging in the evening sky, and Steve Jobs making his first public appearance since cancer surgery, I was reminded of the real reason why I prefer the Mac community. [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] .< 9:52:12 PM >Audacity: Free multitrack audio mixer Transom.org is just such a great web site -- for broadcasters, podcasters, and more. They've got a great tutorial about Audacity on their web site. Audacity is open-source software and, while it can't match something like ProTools for features, it comes pretty close. Have a look at Transom's Audacity tutorial. [Via I Love Radio .org] .< 9:48:57 PM >Bin Laden claims responsibility for 9/11 Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden appeared in a new message aired on an Arabic TV station Friday night, for the first time claiming direct responsibility for the 2001 attacks against the United States.
RADAR V boasts;
1) 192 kHz on all 24 tracks on a single disk,
New hardware from IZ. Ouch. We just bought a pile of the RADAR 24's. Ah well, that's progress. .< 3:36:19 PM >War has killed 100,000 Iraqis: study Nearly 100,000 more Iraqis have died during the American-led occupation than would have died otherwise, a study posted on The Lancet medical journal's website Thursday estimates.
US American media will talk itself blue in the face about missing explosives because those might come back to harm the US. But 100,000 civilian deaths? Not if they are brown people who dress funny and live far away. .< 3:32:07 PM >Observers to monitor US election Hundreds of observers will monitor next week's US election to ensure voters face no discrimination. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 3:29:15 PM >Election Day Uncertainty ONE OF THE MOST disturbing, even destabilizing, aspects of the presidential election is the prospect that partisans on either side will deem the outcome invalid if their candidate doesn't win. Republicans are warning of massive fraud by new registrants not entitled to vote, while Democrats complain of an organized program to intimidate and disenfranchise eligible voters. The tension between preventing fraud and ensuring access is inherent in every election. But the expected closeness of this one, combined with the lingering bruises of the 2000 race, the record number of newly enrolled voters and the added uncertainties posed by a new federal law, have ratcheted that inevitable conflict to a new level. Those factors have produced an avalanche of pre-election litigation, threaten a difficult and perhaps ugly Election Day in the closest states, and raise the possibility that the victor may once again not be known for weeks. [Via washingtonpost.com - Editorials] .< 3:24:02 PM >Bush TV ad pulled over doctored crowd scene News: Bush team admits a picture of the president addressing the troops in Iraq was digitally enhanced. [Via Guardian Unlimited] .< 2:26:07 PM >Here's why we must throw Bush out... Here's why we must throw Bush out of office. The big moment came when Colin Powell went before the UN to explain why it was time to go to war with Iraq. That's when the impeachment proceedings should have started, in hindsight. Unfortunately we didn't know then that they were lying. Blame us for believing that our President wouldn't unilaterally go to war based on a lie. That's criminal. He should go to jail. Sorry Republicans, you nominated the wrong guy. [Via Scripting News] .< 1:16:49 AM >My Favorite Stewart Copeland Story Can you imagine being able to watch Stewart Copeland discover GarageBand? [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: O'Reilly Network Weblogs: Mac] '"I saw this cool looking guitar on the dock," he said. "So I clicked on it. It seemed like about 20 minutes had passed, but it was more like a couple hours. Next thing I knew, I had some pretty sweet tracks put together. And that was without a USB keyboard (as in the musical type). I was just tapping on the computer itself."' .< 1:13:22 AM >AppleInsider | Apple retail to expand into Canada in 2005 According to sources, Apple in the final stages of a leasing agreement with the Yorkdale Shopping Center located in Toronto.
Exciting news for Mac freaks. Too bad it's in a mall outside of downtown but this one is reachable by subway. I feel badly for the local Mac dealers. At this point my expectation is that I'll shop at the Apple Store but buy from the local dealers. .< 12:58:24 AM >Economist.com | America's next president: The incompetent or the incoherent? With a heavy heart, we think American readers should vote for John Kerry on November 2nd [snip] Furthermore, as Mr Bush has often said, there is a need in life for accountability. He has refused to impose it himself, and so voters should, in our view, impose it on him, given a viable alternative. John Kerry, for all the doubts about him, would be in a better position to carry on with America's great tasks.
How bad is it? The Economist is for the war in Iraq. But they can't ignore Bush's incompetence. .< 12:46:10 AM >Klein derided as mean-spirited for comments about handicapped (Canadian Press) Canadian Press - CALGARY (CP) - Premier Ralph Klein was blasted Thursday as mean-spirited and disrespectful for saying two women who heckled him over payments to the disabled didn't look handicapped. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 12:40:19 AM >Florida ballot papers go missing The US postal service hunts 58,000 postal ballot papers missing in the key marginal state of Florida. [Via BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 12:23:18 AM >100,000 civilians dead, says study About 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead since invasion, according to new study. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] 'About 100,000 Iraqi civilians - half of them women and children - have died in Iraq since the invasion, mostly as a result of airstrikes by coalition forces, according to the first reliable study of the death toll from Iraqi and US public health experts. The study, which was carried out in 33 randomly-chosen neighbourhoods of Iraq representative of the entire population, shows that violence is now the leading cause of death in Iraq. Before the invasion, most people died of heart attacks, stroke and chronic illness. The risk of a violent death is now 58 times higher than it was before the invasion.'
100,000 civilians. Stunning. |
Okay it took a while to figure this one out, but the appearance of Osama bin Laden on TV so close to the election is a reminder that Bush went after the wrong guy. Osama is still free, and thumbing his nose at the US. Makes Bush look more like a loser than he already does. How can Bush say he's tough on terror with a straight face with Uncle Osama hogging the news cycle, probably from now to Election Day. Now let's just hope bin Laden is just giving a stump speech and this isn't notice that thousands of Americans are about to die.| Archive: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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