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 Tuesday, 7 December 2004
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Jon Stewart's 'America' Named Book of Year
AP: "Jon Stewart's "America (The Book)," the television commentator's million-selling riff on politics and other matters of satire, has been named Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly."
[Via Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Sending a message.
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Indian film to debut by cellphone
Rok Sako To Rok Lo, an Indian "campus caper" movie, will become the first full-length feature film to premiere on a wireless cellular network. On December 9, subscribers to India's Airtel service can sneak-preview a streaming version on their Edge-enabled phones. Theatrical release begins the following day. Link (via Gizmodo)
[Via Boing Boing]
.< 5:40:34 PM >
PC World: Epson Eyes Electronic Paper...
PC World: Epson Eyes Electronic Paper. The company is developing "e-paper" that can be rolled up and folded as a replacement for paper-based newspapers or magazines, says Tatsuya Shimoda, fellow and director of Epson's technology platform research center. The electronic paper is expected to be on the market in five years...
[Via Tomalak's Realm]
.< 4:01:09 PM >
Arms experts issue missile-defence alert
Arms-control experts from the United States and Canada warn that the Pentagon's missile-defence program is part of an elaborate strategy to use outer space as a battlefield in the future.
Meanwhile, federal Liberals from Quebec say a tide of opposition to Canadian participation in the program is rising in that province, elevating the political importance of the missile issue to the level of last year's debate on the Iraq war.
[Via GAM-National]
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The Globe and Mail: U.S. soldier 'didn't want to have to kill babies'
An American army deserter who fled the 82nd Airborne Division to avoid being deployed to Iraq told his refugee hearing yesterday that no amount of training could convince him that killing the enemy was a noble pursuit.
He is seeking asylum in Canada, along with his wife Nga Nguyen and 2[product]-year-old son Liam.
.< 12:06:55 PM >
Seven years ago today : "On Canada...
Seven years ago today: "On Canada Appreciation Day we look to the north, and thank the better half of North America for putting up with our self-centered approach for so long. We ask them how we could do better. And we listen! We try to imagine what life would be like without Canada, and be glad that we don't have to find out."
[Via Scripting News]
.< 12:04:57 PM >
David Gilbert , a professor at Marymount...
David Gilbert, a professor at Marymount Manhattan College, writes: "Our Art Mobs team is using mobile text messaging and podcasting to allow people to experience art in a new way. Along with the Department of Art and the mobile arts organization YellowArrow, we are hosting a gallery event on Wednesday, December 8 (tomorrow), here in Manhattan to showcase our technologies."
[Via Scripting News]
.< 12:01:38 PM >
Installation of, and OS X bug workaround for, Celestia
Celestia is arguably the greatest program for Mac OS X, at least for science-lovers. However, it's hard to find and install the most recent version.
[Via macosxhints] Travel the universe with this free software.
.< 2:40:30 AM >
You Control: Desktops
You Control: Desktops allows you to create virtual desktops that allow you to extend the functionality of Mac OS X. You can create a desktop for various workspaces that you define to help you organize your personal workflow. Create a desktop for your email. Create another for your image editing and organization. Create yet another for web-browsing.
This looks pretty darn slick.
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Digital Broadcasting Summit
The Canadian Digital Broadcasting Summit
happens February 1 next year. The keynote address will discuss "an
overall view of the personalization of broadcasting as digital
technology permits consumers to use a wide variety of devices to watch
what they want, when they want, where they want."
[Via I Love Radio .org] I skimmed over the titles and didn't see anything about surround sound. Do we need a lobby group?
.< 12:01:53 AM >
The System Endures
SEVEN MONTHS AGO the leak of shocking photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison alerted the country to the fact that U.S. soldiers and interrogators were criminally abusing Iraqi detainees. In the weeks that followed, a still more disturbing story emerged: The torture portrayed in the photographs, while extreme and mostly unauthorized, grew out of a system of abusive treatment of prisoners established by the Bush administration after Sept. 11, 2001. Official investigations have documented the mistreatment of more than 100 detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere and the deaths of more than 20. In many cases these acts were committed by CIA or Army personnel who were following procedures authorized by such senior officials as Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, Iraq commander Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez and White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales. This news prompted some noisy congressional hearings; some angry lawmakers, including a few Republicans, called for reforms.
[Via washingtonpost.com - Editorials]
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