Sunday, March 9, 2003

This is cute. If you have a Sony Ericsson phone and a Mac running OS X you can use the phone as a remote control. I saw this yesterday on a friend's machine - he showed off some scripts that let it control a slideshow and iTunes. Apparently people are showing off scripts that run from X10 home controllers and a few other things. Very simple stuff, but he was having a fine time playing with his phone - the cutest application was using the phone as a proximity sensor so it pauses the music on his Mac when he leaves the room and starts it when he returns. 4:58:54 AM     Music that is good for you even if it may not sound great. They should play The March of the Killer Tomatoes... 4:58:22 AM     Moving towards the sublime, Studio 360 recently ran a piece by Sara Fishko on the new instruments that were commissioned for the Miro Quartet. One old maple tree - four wonderful voices... I am becoming convinced that some of the best contempory stringed instruments are as good as those from the Italian masters. They certainly have different voices, but their voices are wonderful. 4:58:04 AM     A rather sobering view a a nuclear Korean Peninsula has appeared in Salon. The New York Times offers more commentary on the subject. Jmmy Carter penned an op-ed in today's New York Times focusing on the Iraq part of the equation and the justness of the war. The Bush administration has not shown sufficient cause and seems to be rushing headlong into what might be a field of quicksand. One wonders how an administration so poorly equiped to deal with the Security Council or established governments like Russia, France, Germany, Turkey, Mexico and even Canada, can deal with the feuding groups that are certain to surface in a post war Iraq. The pax Americana of the far right can probably only exist so far as it is dictated from the military. I wish I felt that the administration was up to dealing with this and other foreign policy issues. Winning a war is easy if you are huge, winning a peace is hard. Then again I wish that they could deal with domestic issues and the budget. It is amusing that they paint themselves a being fiscally responsible. 4:57:31 AM     James Randi has been dealing with quacks and charlatans for his entire career. Sukie pointed out a nice piece by him on cold reading. 4:57:11 AM

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