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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** The iPod Doc Helps The Technically Challenged
<http://www.theday.com/eng/web/news/re.aspx?re=56086941-ED1B-4571-8B14-09A03ABA7533>
Chris Macias, New London The Day

Dr. Hyung Chun is a graduate of Harvard University who researches cardiovascular medicine. But at night and on weekends, when he sheds his lab coat, Chun rifles through stacks of CDs and becomes a physician for iPods.

*** Sony Boombox To Support iTunes
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22578>
Will Harris, The Inquirer

The Sony internet boombox will have full support for iTunes, it has emerged. Dubbed the NAS-CZ1, the sleek black unit plays MP3, WAV, ACC and WMA, including DRM-iTunes music.

*** When The Work Is A Workstation
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/arts/design/17caro.html>
Carol Kino, New York Times

If you buy a work from Lucas Samaras's current show at the PaceWildenstein and Pace/MacGill galleries, you'll need $15,000 -- and a small moving truck. For your money, you'll get not just 4,432 photographs and 60 movies, but also the Mac Mini computer on which they're stored, an Apple Cinema HD display, an Ikea Hannes desk and two Design Within Reach chairs.

*** Boom In Music Downloads
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4412212>
John-Paul Ford Rojas, The Scotsman

*** Redden Misled Board About Laptop Study?
<http://mdjonline.com/268/10180285.txt>
Jon Gillooly, Marietta Daily Journal

Cobb schools Superintendent Joe Redden failed to inform the board members that laptop supplier Apple Computer had arranged for University of Georgia to conduct the evaluation study and not the school district.

[Opinion]

*** iPod Vs. Cell Phones, Part Deux
<http://waderoush.typepad.com/twr/2005/04/ipod_vs_cell_ph.html>
Wade Roush, Travels With Rhody

[Sidetrack]

*** Why Is The iPod Not An Appliance Yet?
Heng-Cheong Leong

Because toasters don't need reset buttons <http://www.nwistheone.com/blog/?p=203>.

*** Be Prepared -- With Your iPod
Heng-Cheong Leong

If you train for a marathon with an iPod, how many songs do you really need? Well, if you are Bruce Angus <http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050417/NEWS22/50417012>, 3,084.

*** Never Be The Really Early Adopter
Heng-Cheong Leong

Looks like there are some problems <http://www.srozekrans.nl/2005/04/safari-flocks/> with the new Safari included in Mac OS X 10.3.9.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Clicking To Steal
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58268-2005Apr16.html>
David A. Vise, Washington Post

Google, Yahoo and other providers of online ads said they are increasingly being targeted by online fraudsters, who exploit weaknesses in the Interent ad system to generate revenue or hurt their competitors.

*** Does Open Source = Closed Mind?
<http://www.betanews.com/article/Does_Open_Source_Closed_Mind/1113572174>
Laura DiDio, BetaNews

[Linux]

*** Kernel Changes Draw Concern From Open-Source Community
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1787112,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Peter Galli, eWeek

members of the open-source community are expressing concern over rapid feature changes in the Linux 2.6 kernel, which they say are too focused on the desktop and could make the kernel too large.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The Unregulated Offensive
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17CONSTITUTION.html>
Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times

Imagine that the interpretation of the Constitution was frozen in 1937. Imagine a country in which Social Security, job-safety laws and environmental protections were unconstitutional. Imagine judges longing for that. Imagine one of them as the next Supreme Court  nominee.

[Life]

*** Question Celebrity
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48205-2005Apr12.html>
Hank Stuever, Washington Post

Why does Hollywood advertise so ferociously to itself?

*** There's Nothing Deep About Depression
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17DEPRESSION.html>
Peter D. Kramer, New York Times

Why do we continue to believe that clinical depression brings with it artistic insight and literary greatness?

*** Communions
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17WWLN.html?>
Colm Toibin, New York Times

The rules that the church still imposes that affect most law-abiding people tend to govern sexuality and gender; they seem difficult to many Catholics because they focus on the matter of how we love and whom we love.

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** All But Confirmed
Heng-Cheong Leong

Do we really need to wait for an official announcement on the casino decision?

[News]

*** Singapore Warms To Casino
<http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15001482%255E664,00.html>
Herald Sun

Tabcorp and Kerry Packer's Publishing and Broadcasting are likely to get serious about Singapore's first casino licence after former prime minister Lee Kwan Yew shifted ground yesterday and lent his support to legalised gambling.

*** Escaped Jaguar Recaptured After Half An Hour
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/143071/1/.html>
Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia

A jaguar was on the loose for nearly half an hour at the Singaproe Zoo on Sunday, causing a brief evacuation there.

*** Singapore Government Defends Judicial System
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/4/17/latest/20050417160047&sec=Latest>
Associated Press

Singapore's government on Sunday defended its decision to bar an Amnesty International researcher from speaking at a public forum about the death penalty in the city-state, saying it doesn't need a foreigner to lecture it on its criminal justice system.

*** Amnesty Urges Singapore To Halt Executions
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1347038.htm>
ABC News

Human rights group Amnesty International has appealed for Singapore's government to declare a moratorium on executions.

[Opinion]

*** On The Casino
<http://yuhuibc.blogspot.com/2005/04/on-casino.html>
Yuhui, World Of Wonder

The government has only two concerns about any issues and/or policy: 1. profit, 2. law and order.