[MyAppleMenu] Dec 12, 2004

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** The Download On Digital
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/12/12/ccmusic12.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/12/12/ixcoms.html>
James Hall, Telegraph

We will soon get more singles off the net than from the shops -- and Apple's iPod is leading the way.

[Opinion]

*** Paging Jennifer Beals
<http://daringfireball.net/2004/12/paging_beals>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball

My point hasn't been that Apple would never use flash memory. My point is that I don't think they'd make a crummy iPod just to hit a significantly lower price point.

[Sidetrack]

*** 100 And Still Counting
Heng-Cheong Leong

Congratulations to MacAddict <http://www.macaddict.com/magazine/>, who has their 100th issue out.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[Top Stories]

*** The Alpha Bloggers
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6693381/site/newsweek/>
Steven Levy, Newsweek

Meet the highly evolved community of 'A-listers' with growing influence over the tech agenda. They show how radically power can shift in the age of the Internet.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Anti-Concept Concept Store, The
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12ANTI.html>
Amanda Fortini, New York Times

In their rejection of concept-store pretension, the guerrilla stores have realized its purest expression.

*** Do-It-Yourself Attack Ad, The
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12DOIT.html>
Clive Thompson, New York Times

This election, technology made things drastically cheaper.

*** Inkless Magazine, The
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12INKLESS.html>
Michael Kimmelman, New York Times

It may be the first inkless (not to mention textless) magazine, if you're not counting those on the Internet, of course.

*** Purple Is The Color Of Correction
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12PURPLE.html>
Kate Jacobs, New York Times

The latest menace to the American education system has nothing to do with standardized tests or McDonald's outposts in school lunchrooms. Instead, it's a venerable symbol of discipline and authority: the red ink that has been used to grade papers for generations.

*** Underwear For Animated People
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12UNDER.html>
Jascha Hoffman, New York Times

When animators program computer systems to mimic the way interwoven fibers interact with skins -- that is, when virtual clothing is put on the virtual person -- the results are hard to predict and often go awry.

*** A Grieving Son's Journey Comes To A Crossroads
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-father50dec12,1,2658577.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine>
Mark Arax, Los Angeles Times

His father's unsolved murder haunted him for three decades. When the mystery was partly solved, he had to decide how far to search for the whole truth.

*** Enter Narci-Cinema
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12PHENOM.html>
A. O. Scott, New York Times

Movie cameras are still made with thelens fixed on one end and the viewfinder on the back, but these days most consumer-grade video camcorders are equipped with a monitor that swivels around, dissolving the conventional boundary between what is in front of the camera and what, or who, is behind it.

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Life in the city

[Top Stories]

*** Weakness Of The Singapore Model
<http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=50157801>
Kirk Meighoo, Trinidad Express

The Singapore model is for dependent people who will work for other wealth-creators.

[News]

*** Talks With Singapore To Take Off Again Monday
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/12/nation/9641274&sec=nation>
Mergawati Zulfakar, Malaysia Star