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Can't wait to play with this. .< 6:11:17 PM  >Some days it's just good to be a Canadian... Supreme Court OK's same-sex marriage. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] Yes! .< 6:09:18 PM >Good Map of Europe Here's a good, simple map of Europe. Useful for plotting future journeys. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] .< 6:06:38 PM >The Globe and Mail: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IS UPHELD The Supreme Court of Canada gave its blessing yesterday to the federal government's proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, prompting Prime Minister Paul Martin to launch a high-stakes sales job to push the legislation through a divided Liberal caucus and split Parliament. .< 6:05:53 PM >Doctors warn young men: Get the laptop off your lap Doctors warn young men: Get the laptop off your lap [Via GAM-National] So where should men use a laptop? "Use it on a desk," he said, "anywhere but on the lap."
If the findings sound, well, nuts, no doctor is likely to dismiss them. From the front page of yesterday's Globe. I'm past my breeding years so I can only hope it's working on me! .< 5:59:40 PM >'CIA fired me for not toeing Iraq line' Analyst accuses CIA of ruining his career as punishment for his refusal to adhere to official 'dogma' on Iraq's WMD. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] .< 5:56:44 PM >Silver texters fuel message boom Media: Growing popularity of text messaging among older people fuels dramatic growth, with 25 billion sent per year. [Via Guardian Unlimited] .< 5:53:35 PM >Mexico Seeks to Clean Up Shoddy Rights Record MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's government plans sweeping reforms to end rampant human rights violations, but experts complain the plan lacks the teeth to stop police torture and other abuses. [Via Reuters: World] .< 5:52:42 PM >Iraq Civilian Casualties? Who Knew? Does America prefer its media to ignore deaths caused by U.S. actions? [Via TIME's Top Stories] Even if that lower total was accurate, it suggests that Iraq has suffered at least five times the impact of 9/11 — and the fact that its population is one tenth that of the U.S. would magnify the impact to more like 50 times that of 9/11. If the civilian death toll can be routinely dismissed as an unfortunate by-product of war, an even more uncomfortable aspect for the U.S. of the Lancet study is the conclusion that the majority of the violent deaths had been caused not by terror attacks, but by U.S. air strikes. Anyone who's paying attention knew. .< 5:50:15 PM >Half the world's children threatened by extreme poverty Extreme poverty threatens the lives of more than a billion children around the world, according to a report from the United Nations children's agency. [Via CBC News] .< 5:49:02 PM >Funding for U.S. Military Operations in Iraq Could Surge (Reuters) Reuters - The Bush administration, facing mounting violence in Iraq and demands for upgraded equipment, is assembling a funding package for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan that could surge beyond earlier estimates to as much as $75 billion to $100 billion, congressional sources and experts said on Thursday. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 5:48:13 PM >Guantanamo Detainee Details Mistreatment (AP) AP - Prisoners at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been beaten while blindfolded and handcuffed, terrorized by attack dogs and forced to take drugs, an Australian detainee said in an affidavit released Thursday. [Via Yahoo! News - World] .< 5:47:07 PM >Aids worst disaster in history, says UN chief The HIV/Aids pandemic is the worst disaster in history and is blighting childhood across the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, the United Nations says. [Via Guardian Unlimited] .< 5:45:57 PM >Teacher shot at Ontario high school, suspect arrested Police arrested a male suspect after a teacher was reportedly shot in the head in the parking lot of a Toronto-area high school Friday morning. [Via CBC News] .< 5:44:54 PM >1,000 a day dying in Congo, agency An international aid agency says more than 1,000 civilians a day in Congo are dying from disease and malnutrition in the "deadliest crisis in the world." [Via CBC News] .< 3:21:39 PM >Change iSync device icons I was kind of disappointed in the generic icon that iSync gave my Sony Ericsson T637. It didn't really look like my phone, although it did resemble the T630 which is the same but white. I thought it looked a little cartoony s... [Via macosxhints] Hey, that's my phone! .< 3:19:52 PM >Analysis: Will Subscriptions Drown Out iTunes? It wasn't hard to figure out which company was on the minds of most of the attendees at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles Wednesday. Whether representing record labels or online retailers, speakers at the digital music confab couldn't praise Apple enough for the success enjoyed by the company's iTunes Music Store -- that is, when those same speakers weren't predicting the store would soon tumble from its spot at the head of the online music market. [Via MacCentral] .< 3:06:19 PM >Acuras, Cadillacs & Land Rovers To Feature DTS DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) announces that several new 2005 US car models will offer audio systems that feature DTS 5.1-channel surround sound capability. The 2005 Acura RL will include a DVD-Audio system with DTS multi-channel sound as a standard feature, while Land Rover's 2005 Range Rover and the 2005 Cadillac STS will each offer optional DTS-equipped surround audio system. ...Read More » [Via Digital Pro Sound News] .< 3:03:42 PM >Terms of Use for CBC RSS feed I'm snipping bits and pieces from the agreement and pasting them here.
Website Exclusivity. You guarantee that the CBC Feed or Feed Content shall be the exclusive content on your website from a general news and information provider. What if I want to post 1 out of 50 items from the CBC and also items from The Guardian for example? Promotion. You shall not make any promotion or advertisement of the CBC Feed or Feed Content, without the written authorization of CBC/Radio-Canada.
Furthermore, you undertake to display the CBC Feed and Feed Content as they are provided by CBC/Radio-Canada, without altering them in any way, or changing their order of presentation, unless CBC/Radio-Canada expressly indicates you should do so or if you receive the written authorization of CBC/Radio-Canada. You undertake not to combine content from other sources with the CBC Feed and Feed Content. You also undertake to clearly indicate that the CBC Feed and Feed Content has been produced by CBC/Radio-Canada and display a CBC/Radio-Canada copyright notice at all times and under all circumstances. You may not archive the CBC Feed and Feed Content. You will not edit, alter or in any way manipulate the CBC Feed and Feed Content nor shall you allow its reproduction by anyone. You will not distribute the CBC Feed and Feed Content in any way or allow its distribution or redistribution in any manner or form by anyone. Sounds like this blogger can't agree to the terms. .< 2:53:51 PM >Finally... The CBC Gets the RSS Gospel Sorry that I've had to keep this one under my hat for so long, but... Now that Dan spotted our new CSS feeds (no surprise that Dan was the first!), I guess the news is out! Introducing the new CBC News RSS Feed Centre. The feeds are updated every 15 minutes. You can, of course, still use the CBC's Headline Service if you want to incorporate the content into your web site. There's even more exciting stuff coming (which, of course, I can't talk about right now) so stay tuned! [Via I Love Radio .org] Well I was about to pop the champagne corks but then I took a look at the terms of use. I must be misreading it because it looks as though you can't post anything without simply duplicating their feed and only their feed. Please tell me I'm wrong. .< 12:44:16 AM >CNN.com - Invasion of the podcasting people? Podcasting gets its hipster name from the Apple iPod, but it has no direct connection to Apple. You can get podcasts on any player, or just through your computer, if you are set up for it. The idea was a gleam in the eye of the former 1980s MTV veejay Adam Curry, who worked out the technical details with Dave Winer, a co-creator of RSS, the Web feed syndication system that launched a gazillion blogs. (See my two previous columns on blogs and news feed readers for background)
Curry and Winer fixed blogs to feed audio and video files as well. They first called it audio blogging, until the cool name came along and stuck. I hate tape recorders and tape recorders hate me. On at least a half-dozen occasions, I've tried to tape an interview for a story I was working on only to discover the recorder didn't capture the conversation. Half the time it's been my fault (not hooking up the cables between the phone and the recorder properly) and half the time the recorder just didn't do its job, as far as I can tell. It's embarrassing when that happens!
A few weeks ago, I discovered Audio Recorder, a freeware program for OS X that records audio input as MP3 files. The interface couldn't be simpler. I've used it three times so far and the results have been flawless. I use it with the $25 RadioShack Wireless Phone Recording Controller, which is also great. I play back the interviews in iTunes and transcribe them in BBEdit. Man, I'm set. Link |
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