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Joyland amusment park in in Wichita, Kansas, is being sold on eBay. Starting bid is only $1,650,000.00.

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Games & Leisure

I’m not sure if the show is all that interesting, I can’t recall the last time I heard it, but nevertheless, CBC’s Metro Morning will be podcasting ‘a package of the show’s top stories’ every weekday.

TORONTO – Highlights from CBC Radio’s Metro Morning are now available online for fans of the show who want to download interviews and listen to them at their leisure.

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Art & Media, News, Technology

A useful list of Alt Key Numeric Codes. It’s a decent resource to have lying around.

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Technology

Update: This seems to be a bug with Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1, and doesn’t seem to happen on my Firefox 1.0.4 version at home. The issue deals with the divs inside the title# tds. The divs around the description have a style=”width:350″ attribute, but Deer Park doesn’t seem to respond to this value. I dont know if this is a problem with Deer Park or a problem with the style attribute not specifying a unit.

So, in case you haven’t noticed from the recent upswing in blog postings here, I’ve started getting into digg.com. I’ve been following the river of news from digg.com for a while but haven’t been a very active participant until recently.

Anywho, I’ve found the ‘digg / diggall‘ pages to be somewhat unpleasant with the TDs under the ‘title’ column having a noWrap=true property applied to them. So I whipped up a quick bookmarklet to fix the problem.

<a href=”javascript:(function(){ els=document.getElementsByTagName(‘td’); for(i=0;iFix Digg TDs

To use the bookmarklet simply drag it to your bookmarks toolbar / links bar, and click it after loading the digall page.
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Technology

Fans of… independent Canadian music can experience the programming of CBC Radio 3 in a new way – podcasting…. Radio 3’s podcast is truly unique: it’s full of amazing, 100% Canadian music from new and emerging artists. It’s great news for music fans and it’s even better news for independent Canadian musicians.

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Art & Media, Technology

“Reuters – Hollywood actors unions have reached a contract deal with video game publishers, accepting higher pay instead of the profit-sharing they had demanded, the unions said Wednesday, removing the threat of a strike.”

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So this is the second time I’ve read a clarification posting that Newsgator, the RSS agregation company, is not, in fact, the reviled spyware company ‘Gator’. Apparently people don’t seem to get that just because a business name contains, in part, the name of another business, they’re not actually the same business. Shocking.

From Nick Bradbury’s blog posting:

Shortly after I announced that NewsGator had acquired my company, I started seeing comments from people wondering whether NewsGator was related to the “Gator” spyware company (now known as “Claria”). The answer, of course, is NO (you don’t really think I’d join a spyware company, do you?).

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News

Most browser vendors, including Mozilla, agreed and updated their products to remove the feature. But it has been reintroduced in Firefox 1.0.4, Mozilla 1.7.8 and Camino 0.x, according to the firm. Secunia has published an online demonstration of the flaw.

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Technology

Microsoft has agreed to pay a small royalty to Nvidia to allow the Xbox 360’s ATI chipset to emulate the performance of the Nvidia chipset.

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Games & Leisure

Receptionists at most major studios reportedly got a shock with their morning coffee yesterday. According to Variety (subscription required), all the major movie studios’ Hollywood offices were visited on Monday by messengers dressed as the Master Chief, the armored hero of the Halo games…

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