[MyAppleMenu] Jun 29, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Jun 29, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Mac's Retail Rush (Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press)
<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/6188023.htm>
When Apple launched its "switcher" campaign to woo Windows users into the Macintosh camp, the stores were supposed to serve as the ultimate physical enticements for would-be defectors. But fewer than two out of a 100 non-Mac-using store visitors end up buying Macs, about the rate at which Mac-using visitors buy new machines.

Apple Exploits Open Source To Produce An Outstanding Browser (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43537-2003Jun27.html>
Safari is one of Apple's finest releases, an elegant piece of work that shows a refreshing emphasis on two often-neglected qualities: simplicity and speed.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Mac Geeks Unite At Sea (David Pogue, CBS News)
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/19/sunday/main559452.shtml>
Inside what looks like an ordinary classroom, students gathered for what seemed to be a usual computer seminar. But the computer users were far from common.

Oak Ridge Upgrades School Computers (Bob Fowler, KnoxNews)
<http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/anderson/article/0,1406,KNS_366_2070763,00.html>
Students and teachers at Oak Ridge's four elementary schools will have new wireless computers and software when school resumes in August.

Apple Wins Two Industrial Design Excellence Awards (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/06/28/idea>
Apple received two awards in this year's Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Apple And Developers (Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3406>
Just because Steve Jobs doesn't have a genius for encouraging developers doesn't mean that he isn't a genius at a certain kind of marketing.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Macintosh In The Land Behind The 64-Bit Looking Glass (Nebojsa Novakovic, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10244>
Combined with the compiler and software improvement, the roadmap might give us the fastest desktop platform around -- but will Apple make full use of it, or screw up a great opportunity as they did many times before?

PlanarMedia 14 Audio System (Peter Cohen, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/28/planarmedia/>
I don't have any pretense of being an audiophile, but I know what I like. And I like the way this speaker system sounds.

Sony CD Recorder Is Good To Go (Ric Manning, Courier-Journal)
<http://www.courier-journal.com/gizweb/cols/03/030628.htm>
Sony's new MPD-AP20OU portable CD recorder costs more than some other outboard units, but it has several features that might make it worth the price.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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You've Got Spam (Sunday Herald)
<http://www.sundayherald.com/34843>
A rising tide of junk mail is threatening to inundate Internet users. But you can fight back, and save time and money.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Some Cipro With That Burger? (Madeline Drexler, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-drexler29jun29192423,1,3135507.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions>
McDonald's antibiotic policy may not be perfect, but it's better than the FDA's.

His Moment Of Truth (Michael Leahy, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27220-2003Jun24.html>
Joe Lieberman condemned Bill Clinton on national TV, and was anointed his party's moral conscience. Now he'll learn if that's a blessing or a curse.

Affirmed... For Now (Glenn C. Loury, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/180/focus/Affirmed_for_now+.shtml>
The Supreme Court's decision made affirmative action resoundingly legal. Now comes the hard part--making it unnecessary.

Once Hailed, Soldiers In Iraq Now Feel Blame At Each Step (Edmund L. Andrews, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/international/worldspecial/29HEAR.html?hp>
After riding into Iraq on a wave of popular euphoria, American and British forces are unexpectedly finding themselves the brunt of criticism for everything that goes wrong these days.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Programming A Hunt For Computer-Animated Hits (Charles Solomon, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ca-solomon29jun29,1,6549051.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
The success of 'Nemo' and others ignites a new boom. But is the need for strong stroies being overlooked?

Is Google God? (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/opinion/29FRIE.html>
While you were sleeping after 9/11, not only has the process of technological integration continued, it has actually intensified -- and this will have profound implications.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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That Was 'Joy Luck,' This Is Now (Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-ca-sreynolds29jun29,0,5275031.story?coll=cl-books-features>
Anger, realism and irreverence distinguish the "second generation" of Asian American novelists.

Taking Liberties With Harry Potter (Tracy Mayor, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0629/fanfic.htm>
Thousands of spinoffs of J.K. Rowling's novels -- many steamy with graphic sex -- can be read on the Internet. But why is this fan fiction, often of questionable legality, allowed to flourish?

College Rivalry (Patrick Healy, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0629/coverstory.htm>
Universities will do almost anything these days to land a star professor who can bring instant prestige, attract large donors, and, oh yes, even do some teaching.

How To Kill Orchestras (Bernard Holland, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/arts/television/29HOLL.html>
The free-enterprise system, which worked so admirably to bring the American city its new wealth, transferred poorly to the performing arts.

A Star Is Born (And Swimming In Singapore) (Wayne Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/business/yourmoney/29WORL.html>
With its preposterously bulbous forehead and garish markings, the luohan, a 6- to 8-inch-long fish, has become so widly pouplar among this city's ethnic Chinese majority that in some households there are more luohan than people.

Harry Potter And The International Order Of Copyright (Tim Wu, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2084960/>
Should Tanya Grotter and the Magic Double Bass be banned?

The Hungriest Critic Of Them All (A. O. Scott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/arts/29SCOT.html?pagewanted=all&position=>
"I'm trying to open up new opportunities, which is probably crazy at my age. But there are other things I can do yet."

The Executioner's I.Q. Test (Margaret Talbot, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/magazine/29RETARDED.html>
Death-penalty opponents cheered when the Supreme Court ruled it wa sunconstitutional to execute the retarded, but the decision has added a new element of arbitrariness to a system that is already arbitrary in the extreme.

Freindship Envy (Ann Patchett, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/magazine/29WWLN.html>
It was this very maelstrom of talk, this bright and complicated intimacy, that first caught me up in "Sex and the City."

MyAppleMenu Reader : Expressions
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Love Me (Garrison Keillor, The Atlantic)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/29/IN290713.DTL>
I took a train up to Halifax to write about Canada. I thought Canada would be good for me. Get me out of my slump, which had been going on for more than a year now. But it rained a lot for three days, and I wound up sitting in a bar and drinking Rusty Nails with a Canadian who had a grudge against the United States.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Denies Torture Claims (Associated Press)
<http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/06/28/singapore.torture.ap/>
Singapore has denied allegations of torture saying three prisoners being held in the city-state were not coerced into implicating a Muslim cleric accused of heading the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant group.

PM Goh Backs Rail Solution To Traffic Problem (Li Xueying, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,197207,00.html?>
Government will support building a network of lines and more stations, to provide a conveient alternative to cars.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Not Time To Let Jobless Dip Into CPF: DPM Lee (Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,4390,197225,00.html?>
The priority is to get the unemployed back to work.

Little India In Singapore (Rediff.com)
<http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/jun/28guest.htm>
I shudder to think what round-the-clock shopping at Singapore's Mustafa and a new metro right up to its doorstep will do to India's diplomacy.

Singapore's Wheel Of Fortune (Associated Press)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,986707,00.html>

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