[MyAppleMenu] Dec 10, 2000

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter

== AppleSurf (Top Stories) ==============

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This week feature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Plus, a memo to art museums, the taboo about sex, and a Charlie Brown Christmas.

== AppleSurf (News) ==============

 The Aqua Interface: To Tweak Or Not To Tweak? (MacCentral)
<http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/09.tweak.shtml>

 Apple's Recordable CD Options (MacWEEK.com)
<http://macweek.zdnet.com/2000/12/03/1209cdrw.html>

== AppleSurf (Opinions) ==============

 Why Aren't More Macs Being Sold? (Arizona Central)
<http://www.azcentral.com/computing/steinberg/>
So what's wrong? Have PCs lost their luster? Do so many have them that they don't see a compelling need to buy a new computer this year?

== The Wintel Empire (Top Stories) ==============

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This week feature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Plus, a memo to art museums, the taboo about sex, and a Charlie Brown Christmas.

== Breaking Barriers (Top Stories) ==============

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This week feature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Plus, a memo to art museums, the taboo about sex, and a Charlie Brown Christmas.

== Breaking Barriers (News) ==============

 Onl Connect, Says Clay Shirky (Red Herring)
<http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue76/mag-new-76.html>
Any computer that runs a browser is a network computer. The real revolution is in connectivity. The hardware platform becomes much less important.

 Battling 'Cyber-Slackers' At Work (MSNBC)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/500581.asp>
Businesses have ways to curb 'unauthorized' time online.

 Analysts Go Undercover At Amazon (Reuters)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4065648.html?tag=st.ne.1430735..ni>
Amazon.com, the online retailer that began as a bookseller, has itself become the subject of a plot worthy of a investor-style cloak-and-dagger novel.

== PenguinSurf (Top Stories) ==============

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This week feature: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Plus, a memo to art museums, the taboo about sex, and a Charlie Brown Christmas.

== SingaporeSurf (Top Stories) ==============

 Singapore Human rights Lobby Demand Abolition Of Security Law (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001210/singapore/afp/Singapore_human_rights_lobby_demand_abolition_of_security_law.html>
Claiming the act allows for detention without trial, a letter to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was delivered by opposition leader Chee Soon Juan, seeking an official apology for previous detentions.

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== SingaporeSurf (News) ==============

 The Indonesian Effect On Singapore (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/1/news/nseye00.html>
Any further major political or economic upheaval in Indonesia could result -- for Singapore, within three to six months -- in a 6 per cent fall in exports, 5 per cent drop in bank loans and a 17 per cent fall in property prices, according to two economists.

 Anti-Privacy Watchdog May Have Breached Copyright Law (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/money/story/0,1870,9644,00.html?>
Letter sent to 15,000 SMEs could be seen as containing a 'threat' not allowed by law, say lawyers.

 Speakers' Corner Comes Alive On Human Rights Day (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/cna/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001210/singapore/cna/Speakers__Corner_comes_alive_on_Human_Rights_Day.html>
In Singapore, opposition politician JB Jeyaretnam turned up at the Speakers' Corner in Hong Lim Park - Singapore's free speech corner - to talk about what he called the denial of human rights in the country.

 Singapore Human rights Lobby Demand Abolition Of Security Law (AFP)
<http://sg.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/singapore/afp/article.html?s=singapore/headlines/001210/singapore/afp/Singapore_human_rights_lobby_demand_abolition_of_security_law.html>
Claiming the act allows for detention without trial, a letter to Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong was delivered by opposition leader Chee Soon Juan, seeking an official apology for previous detentions.

 Johor To Stop Buying Water From PUB (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,9354,00.html?>
It is building a plant and distribution network to end its reliance on treated water from the board from 2003.