The News Review:
- Baseball gets a little lost in automated translation
- A&E Digest
- More young women choose ‘radical’ lifestyle as nuns
- Apple Wins Settlement with Apple
Baseball gets a little lost in automated translation
Boston Globe – Apr 15, 2007
The blogger explains that Manila which allowed users a lot of freedom to design their own home pages but was not particularly secure was finally overwhelmed by blog spammers and has been replaced by WordPress. “Unfortunately in WordPress we are not allowed to fiddle with the template code. We must choose one of the standard preloaded templates” Dowbrigade wrote in a recent post. “As a result the Dowbrigade News will look considerably different.
A&E Digest
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 15, 2007
A reduced registration rate has been extended until next Sunday. (Mary Thomas)Details on Chabonne way to keep up with “Mysteries of Pittsburgh” author Michael Chabon is to check out Details magazine in which he has a regular column. As a bonus in the April issue Chabon has an excerpt of his upcoming novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” a murder mystery set in a parallel universe. There’s also an online Q&A with the University of Pittsburgh grad (at.
More young women choose ‘radical’ lifestyle as nuns
washingtontimes.com – Apr 15, 2007
Their founders would tell them to “go to the edges” embrace technology says Sister Arlene Scott assistant vice president of mission at this coed Catholic school in Miami. That attitude has helped their order the Adrian Dominican Sisters in Michigan attract a few candidates in their 20s and 30s this year. Sister Julie Vieira’s popular blog A Nun’s Life at nuns2day. com isn’t meant as a recruiting tool although plenty of girls and young women visit the site. Sister Julie of Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe Mich. blogs about politics enjoying a beer at a bar and her favorite bands along with religious content hoping to dispel stereotypes.
Apple Wins Settlement with Apple
Stereophile Magazine – Apr 15, 2007
“But it doesn’t say that anywhere on the package” John objected. “We don’t want to confuse consumers” the exec explained. Lefsetz doesn’t see the higher bit-rate and lack of DRM as added value. Why he asked if it was so bad didn’t Jobs object to 128kbps before? “So you’re giving me less than I can get with the CD but somehow I should be thrilled? Sounds like used car salesman speak doesn’t it?” Slate. com’s Christopher Beam questioned whether doubling the bit-rate from 128 to 256kbps was even.