[MyAppleMenu] Dec 24, 2001

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

Hewlett Aims To Replace The Print Shop (Chris Gaither, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/technology/ebusiness/24HEWL.html>
Behind the deal is another Hewlett-Packard ambition: to extend the reach of its dominant printing and imaging division.

=== internet news =============

For Dot-Com Success Stories, Failure Became A Fact (Renae Merle, Washington Post)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14309-1.html>
For many Internet companies, the year 2001 was when the once-remote idea of failure became a distinct probability.

'You've Got Mail,' More ANd More, And Mostly, It Is Junk (Amy Harmon, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/technology/24SPAM.html>
Spam has been annoying Internet users for years. But in the last three months, spam has spiked.

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

Hewlett Aims To Replace The Print Shop (Chris Gaither, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/technology/ebusiness/24HEWL.html>
Behind the deal is another Hewlett-Packard ambition: to extend the reach of its dominant printing and imaging division.

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

Snail Mail: An Idea Whose Time Has Not Fully Pased (Tim Race, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/technology/ebusiness/24NECO.html>
When the mail must be destroyed to save it, the question naturally arises: Does anyone really need snail mail any more?

A Mittenless AUtumn, For Better And Worse (Pam Belluck and Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/23/science/earth/23CLIM.html>
The growing variability of the weather may be as troublesome as the warming.

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

Toying With The Past (Richard Seven, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2001/1223/cover.html>
Memories are mostly what remains of our dools and trucks, models and blocks.

Firetruck? Big Red Hat? Must Be Santa Claus (Jennifer Frey, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19483-2001Dec23.html>
In Trumansburg, Santa Claus is the man who comes to every house on Christmas Eve -- on a firetruck, granted, rather than a sleigh -- and brings candy canes and small gifts, shakes the hands of the adults, holds the babies, laughs deep and loud and bellows the essential "Ho! Ho! Ho!"

Driven By A Higher Calling, Not Dot-Com Dollars (Matthew Mirapaul, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/24/arts/24ARTS.html>
The collapse of countless e-commerce ventures may have prompted many to dismiss the Internet as a viable economic platform, but it certainly remains vital as a creative medium.

=== reader : eof =============

The Year Not In Review (Doug White, Poytner.org)
<http://www.poynter.org/centerpiece/122401_davebarry.htm>
Dave Barry: I was concerned that something could happen between deadline and publication that would have made my review look stupid and tasteless (or, even more stupid and tasteless than usual).

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

Hotel Offers Guests Same Day High-Tech Delivery Of Foreign Newspapers (Fiona Tan, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2001/12/24/singaporenews15701.htm>
Newspaper delivery has gone high-tech at Singapore's Oriental Hotel with a service called NewspaperDirect.

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