[MyAppleMenu] Dec 22, 2001

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=== top =============

inetd: Bad Coder, No Doughnut (John C. Welch, Workingmac.com)
<http://www.workingmac.com/inetd/125.wm>
What is going on with you people who write installers and applications these days?

=== news =============

Kensington Updates OS X Drivers For 10.1 (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=11499>

Mac IE Browser Defaults To Netscape Page (Shane, Geek.com)
<http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001dec/bma20011221009440.htm>
Ironic turn of events.

=== wintel news =============

Mac IE Browser Defaults To Netscape Page (Shane, Geek.com)
<http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2001dec/bma20011221009440.htm>
Ironic turn of events.

=== reader : tech =============

Net News Lethargy (Amy Langfield, Online Journalism Review)
<http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=676>
Most sites fail to make use of the medium's main strength -- speed.

=== reader : life =============

'Time' Faces Person Of Year Quandary (Bruce Horovitz, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2001-12-21-time.htm>
"No matter how many times we say, 'Person of the Year is not an honor,' it's still viewed as some sort of civic award."

In Search Of A Perfect Cup (Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=883770>
Espresso coffee requires as much technology and taste as fine wine. Where to find the finest?

A Season Of Hopes And Fears (Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14678-2001Dec21.html>
In the wake of Sept. 11, a different holiday spirit.

A Poet's Palestine As A Metaphor (Adam Shatz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/arts/22DARW.html>
As the Palestinian poet Mahumoud Darwish has observed, Palestine is also a metaphor -- for the loss of Eden, for the sorrows of dispossession and exile, for the declining power of the Arab world in its dealings with the West.

=== singapore news =============

IRAS Refunds Tax Rebates To Nearly All Taxpayers (Channel NewsAsia)
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011222/5/singapore15532.html>
The taxman has reassessed and given rebates to 99 percent of taxpayers affected by the off-Budget measures announced in October.

Reclamation Works Along Pulau Ubin Beach Deferred (Lee Siew Hoon, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2001/12/22/singaporenews15397.htm>
National Development Ministry said this was to allow it to consult experts on how best to protect the marine life there.

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