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- secretary-general calls space flight a step forward for humankind |
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- secretary-general condemns deadly gaza attack on diplomats |
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- liberia: humanitarian assistance scaling up |
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- "Suck it up, fatso, and stop taking 100 pills a day or whatever ... - www.indymedia.org: |
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- gotta wonder - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Americans begin to agree that pResident Bu$h has more in common with an ass-clown than a leader. "republiKKKans do best what they do on their knees." - www. |
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- American officials and their media men deliberately forget how they were disregarding the international public opinion and trampling on them with t... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Ex Powell aide says Powell lied! - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- The media-coddled Bush administration has now become a chorus of crybabies - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Zionazis confirmed Mossad officials are responsible for foreign newspaper reports about Israel's plan to carry out "a decisive preemptive strike" a... - www.indymedia. |
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- A tractor-trailer carrying sand collided with a school bus in western Kansas Wednesday, killing a young boy and seriously injuring three other students, police said. |
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- Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews posted a (constructively) critical but also favorable review of Mac OS X Panther 10.3. The article discusses the new features, what works great and what's still sour, while it includes a plethora of screenshots." |
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- China today became the world's third space power with the successful return to Earth of Yang Liwei, the country's first Taikonaut. Yang, a Lt Col in the People's Army spent 21 hours in orbit and circled the earth 14 times. |
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- Business News: Music file sharers bow to political pressure Under political pressure from Congress and the recording industry to clean up their act, online peer-to-peer music swapping sites have formed an Internet resource center to combat child porn. |
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- Business News: NO. 1 Canadaian distrib sees successful IPO Canadian film company Alliance Atlantis Communications announced Wednesday it has completed an initial public offering for its Movie Distribution Income Fund, generating gross proceeds of approximately C$231 million ($174 million). |
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- Film News: Controversial film renamed 'Passion of Christ' Mel Gibson's controversial film about the last hours in the life of Jesus Christ will now be known as "The Passion of Christ." |
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- Business News: Voom offers 21 HD channels, more than any other distrib High-definition programming has found its media champion in Chuck Dolan, whose Rainbow DBS satellite service, dubbed Voom, will offer 21 HD channels to subscribers, more than any other satellite distributor or cable operator. |
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- TV News: Veep is responsible for news programming prod'n Still retaining his title as Fox News Channel network exec producer, Bill Shine on Wednesday was promoted to veep for production. |
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- TV News: ABC laffer surges despite baseball aud Against the backdrop of more big baseball ratings Tuesday night on Fox, NBC's first-year comedy "Whoopi" impressed with best-since-premiere numbers. |
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- Film News: Dsitrib adds Bresson, more Godard to library Gotham-based specialty boutique Rialto Pictures has acquired a package of four 1960s French classics from the Argos Films library including Robert Bresson's "Au hasard Balthazar," opening Friday at New York's Film Forum. |
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- Music News: Elvis '2nd' is third on chart Ludacris' third Def Jam album, "Chicken & Beer," was the top-selling album in the country for the week ending Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It is the first No. 1 for the Universal Music Group since the distrib announced it would reduce the list price to $12.98 on all frontline releases. |
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- Film News: Chilean helmer to be honored Prolific Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz will be the "Filmmaker in Focus" at January's Intl. Film Festival Rotterdam. |
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- TV News: World Brief The National Cinema Agency (Ancine) will expand to cover TV and be renamed the National Audiovisual Agency (Ancinav). |
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- Film News: World Brief Iranian helmer Jafar Panahi has dedicated his Chicago film fest Gold Hugo kudos for "Crimson Gold" to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel Peace Prize honoree, in an open letter published in his homeland's newspapers. |
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- World News: World Brief MGM Home Entertainment Group has signed a three-year exclusive agreement with Bac Films subsid Wild Side Video to become the homevid distrib of Wild Side Video's titles in France. |
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- Film News: World Brief Anant Singh's Videovision Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Africa's first full-length animated feature, "The Legend of the Sky Kingdom." |
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- Film Reviews: Intense, eerie pic makes the most of Super-8, digital video, spooky sound design and a talented cluster of actors to yield a pic that toys with regret, near-death experience and the unknowable, against a backdrop of full-bore summertime countryside. Ultra-low-budget, experimental effort from award-winning short filmmaker Pierre Vinour has fest potential. |
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- Film News: Besson's EuropaCorp hires fest's outsed artistic topper Francois Da Silva, the ousted artistic topper of Cannes film fest sidebar Directors Fortnight, has landed a tailor-made job at Luc Besson's EuropaCorp. |
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- TV News: EC demands future grants be more accountable A double-edged European Union judgment has approved state aid provided by Italy and Portugal to pubcasters in the 1990s but demanded that future funding be more accountable. |
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- World News: Ex-CFO held in finance probe of conglom The heat is on Leo Kirch and his former top execs after one former manager was arrested Tuesday following police raids on 13 properties in Germany and Switzerland. |
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- Legit Reviews: Michael Feinstein, an elegant connoisseur and performer of songs often grouped in cabaret repertoire as the Great American Songbook, finds himself in a more contemporary mode. The usual diet of tunes by Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin and Jule Styne, among others, has been set aside to collaborate with songwriter-singer Jimmy Webb. |
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- Film Reviews: Are there now two dozen people running around H'wood claiming they produced a hot film festival entry starring Giovanni Ribisi and Christina Ricci? Question is more intriguing than what happens onscreen in this wallow in H'wood hipster self-absorption. Name talent may attract some distrib nibbles, but interest among audiences will be scant. |
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- Obituaries: Producer, director, writer, story analyst Obituary |
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- Wi-fi expected on 25 million vehicles within 5 years By kgrr Wednesday, October 08 @ 12:07:31 PDT Adoption of Bluetooth has been steadily increasing since its OEM automotive debut in the 2003 Saab 9-3. Although Bluetooth will continue its momentum in new 2004 models from Acura, Audi, Lexus, Lincoln, Maybach, and Toyota, to name a few, its role will be limited, according to the findings of a new research study from ABI. Protocols based on 802. |
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- Recalls to my mind the characteristic defense when confronted with alternative way of getting out another side of the opinion facts. Know what I mean? http://www. salon. |
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- I highly recommend taking some time to read at Robert Fisk's site. His articles for the London Independent have been among the best (mot penetrating and objective revealing, as shown by later events) of the war. His continuing reporting (a thousand Iraqi citizens killed every week...) is important to cope with. http: |
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- Opsware, EDS, CA and BEA back new utility computing standard. The Data Center Markup Language specification is designed to serve as the foundation for building and deploying enterprise-capable applications. [Computerworld News] |
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- EV-DV vrs The World. Samsung is demonstrating the world's first 1xEV-DV system at the ITU Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva, Switzerland this week. "With average data speeds targeted for the 300 to 500 Kbps range, 1xEV-DV offers an integrated voice and data solution for a wide variety of high-speed custome... [DailyWireless] |
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- Crypto-Gram: Accidents and Security Incidents. Things go wrong because there is a malicious and intelligent adversary trying to force things to go wrong, at the very worst time, with the very worst results. The differences between attacks and accidents are intent, intelligence, and control. [Tomalak's Realm] |
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- Trusted Computing [Slashdot] |
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- Overview ITU Telecom World 2003. - Telecom World Special of Business Week Online - ITU Telecom World 2003 Online News Updates [Smart Mobs] |
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- Sun greases Java deployment for telcos. One umbrella [The Register] |
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- FreeRADIUS 0.9.2 (Development) [freshmeat.net] |
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