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Thursday, 29 August 2002
< 11:51:02 PM>.
Apple's Newton Just Won't Drop. Apple killed the Newton handheld computer in 1998. It should have gone away, but thousands of fans still use it and keep its applications current. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
Cool. There's a picture of some Toronto users taken just outside the CBC building where I work.
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Egoyan gets reel
The director's art installation features real people unwinding about their '60s-era tape machines and what they recorded on them

By JOANNE LATIMER
MONTREAL -- Atom Egoyan, no complainer, tirelessly fusses over details at the Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal as technicians apply the finishing touches to the wall text the day before the premiere of his latest art installation, Out of Use. FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts] Meanwhile another Egoyan is in Venice doing a sound installation.
< 1:07:42 AM>.
Earth Summit wants to know if Canada will sign Kyoto
Interest is growing in South Africa over a speech that will be
delivered by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien next week: will he or
won't he announce that Canada will ratify the Kyoto accord?
F U L L S T O R Y [CBC News]
< 1:00:53 AM>.
St-r-r-i-k-e? If It Happens, Fans Can Keep Their Eyes on the Ball. BaseballLibrary.com is a hulking colossus of online baseball arcana, a blog-and-encyclopedia hybrid that can serve up ample portions of the most obscure baseball history. By Marc Weingarden. [New York Times: Technology]Pretty cool. And they're hip enough to send a hearty welcome to bloggers. I like this: today's 'flashback' is 'Baseball Crosses the Border', and of course it's about the Expos arriving in Montréal.
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WordPerfect Gets New Life in Deal with 2 PC Makers. Just as WordPerfect, the once-popular word processing software, was at risk of slipping from the computer world's consciousness, it is set to appear on millions of new screens. By Bernard Simon. [New York Times: Technology]
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