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7/9/2005; 1:22:57 |
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Holy moley, it’s black outside!
First time I can remember seeing a tornado warning for Toronto. [Via Xanada]
Yup. Street lights were on here. We ate lunch on the front porch to take in the exciting events. . .< 2:05:02 AM  >Busy Yorkdale Store Appears to Be Expanding The Yorkdale (Canada) retail store has been packed since day #1, and now it appears the storefront is being expanded to take over the empty Bata Shoes space next door. [Via ifo Apple Store] . .< 2:02:20 AM >Web Apps with Tiger: Getting Started Morbus is back with more web serving tools and tricks, updated for Mac OS X Tiger. In this first article, he'll take you on a whirlwind through the basics: turning on the Apache web server, learning a teensy bit of its configuration, then enabling and testing PHP. [Via Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com] . .< 1:16:29 AM >Mother tips balance against Bush Vigil outside the president's ranch galvanises the anti-war movement. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] "From small towns in the Midwest to big cities on the coast, no state was left untouched. From Red States to Blue States, the effect was to galvanise the anti-war movement in a way nothing else has done since the American-led invasion more than two years ago." [snip] 'This is now about far more than Cindy Sheehan. She has given people the confidence to speak out about the war that they didn't have before. Finally, its OK in America to be anti-war,' Zunes said." US Americans are beginning to discover that we were right all along. . .< 1:08:50 AM >That's still the way it is tonight The legendary US anchorman, 88-year-old Walter Cronkite, tells David Smith his strong views on politics and the media. [Via Guardian Unlimited World Latest] . .< 1:03:07 AM >Symphony may be on road to extinction The MSO may seriously be on the road to extinction, says this piece. I am not well enough up on the actual facts to guess how much of this talk is scare talk, but there's a Le Devoir piece also today that tries to make sense of it. [Via montreal city weblog] . .< 1:02:01 AM >Toronto backs smog suit U.S. coal plants under fire over cross-border pollution [Via The Globe and Mail - National News] "In June, Ontario released a 30-year study showing that more than half of the smog over the province originates in the United States, takes nearly 3,000 lives a year and costs $5.2-billion annually in health and environmental damage." . .< 12:57:16 AM >CBC, union see contract work as the great divide Never before has there been such a philosophical divide between the two sides. [Via The Globe and Mail - National News] . .< 12:56:42 AM >Southern Ontario town picks up pieces after tornado Guelph hit by extreme weather system; heavy rain causes flooding across Toronto area [Via The Globe and Mail - National News] . .< 12:49:22 AM >News: Apple security update breaks 64-bit applications A security update released on Monday by Apple Computer rendered 64-bit optimized applications for Mac OS X unusable. The update, which fixed many issues with the operating system, left some companies scrambling to explain to customers why their applications stopped working. [Via MacCentral] . .< 12:49:13 AM >News: Windows worm beginning to spread A variety of worms that exploit a Windows vulnerability disclosed last week are hitting many systems worldwide, reportedly including some at cable network CNN, and could reach critical mass in the next several hours, according to antivirus vendor Trend Micro Inc. [Via MacCentral] . .< 12:49:05 AM >Somebody make it stop, please... I swear that that CBC management sent themselves to monotony camp to prepare for their lockout duty. Listening to the national management-hosted "CBC Radio Morning" broadcast on Radio One this morning, I couldn't believe my ears: it was worse than the worst college radio. Why not just turn off the transmitters? A good source for the union side of the story is the union's Toronto website (be sure to read the From the Floor newsletter for an exciting word search puzzle!). There are also links to employee blogs (like this and this and this). The CBC has their own website to give their side of the issues. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] . .< 12:48:48 AM >OS X Hacked to Run on PC's and Runs Faster Then G5's I’ve been saying since day one that it would only be a matter of time before the Trusted Platform Module, the peace of code to prevent OS X from running on non-Apple hardware, would be hacked. Man, I was pretty surprised to find out that’s already been done… Direct and Related Links for 'OS X Hacked to Run on PC’s and Runs Faster Then G5’s' [Via Lockergnome's OS X Fanatics] . .< 12:48:29 AM >Deep Ancestry A project of IBM and National Geographic, the Genographic Project is collecting human DNA from all over the world to "map how humankind populated the planet." For $99.95US, you can purchase a participation kit and add your own DNA to the mix; in return you receive information about your own "deep ancestry."Learn more in this podcast. [Via ruk.ca from peter rukavina] Wow! Well, here we have one of those moments when you are wandering around the web (ok, reading your rss feed these days) and you stumble across a really mind blowing site. Fantastic. Check it out. |
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