[MyAppleMenu] Aug 3, 2002

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

Free Thinkers At The Gates (Garry Barker, Livewire)
<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/01/1027926911470.html>
This brave software warrior banging at the gates of Gates is ThinkFree, a company formed in South Korea about five years ago by Java-programming wizard T.J. Kang.

'Full Frontal' Done Digitally (Lynne Topkis, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/news/culture/story/0,24195,3394157,00.html>
Steven Soderbergh goes back to his indie roots with his first digital film.

Welcome Home! You've Got Mail! (Shelley Emling, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
<http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/business/0802/04ptvacation.html>
Apple's flagship OS X operating system set to roll out late this month will include a built-in spam filter among its many enhancements.

=== opinions =============

They Love Apple, But Why? (Dave Winer, Scripting News)
<http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2002/08/02#theyLoveAppleButWhy>
Much of the misplaced open source zealotry is really love of Unix.

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

Blog's The Word At MSNBC.com (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948211.html>
Web news site MSNBC.com will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August, a move that will allow it more editorial control over the opinionated ramblings of its former online discussion boards.

4 Florida Newspapers To Charge For Online Content (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Online-Newspapers.html>
News delivered online by four Freedom Communications Inc. newspapers in the Florida Panhandle is no longer free.

Character Assassination Of SpamAssassin (Scott Rosenberg)
<http://blogs.salon.com/0000014/2002/08/02.html#a50>
SpamAssassin isn't perfect, but it's a step up the evolutionary ladder.

=== wintel top news =============

The Bully Is Back (Tom Yager, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ne/xml/02/08/05/020805nenonnet.xml>
Microsoft is partying like it's 1999.

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

Asimo: Honda's New Compact Comes In Peace (Bret Schulte, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37974-2002Aug2.html>
The future is not now. Not quite. But it is walking this way.

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

Oh, Temptation (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1259451>
If only fast food were truly addictive.

Don't Believe The Monthly Hype (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2068785&device=>
It's time for the <i>Washington Monthly</i> to update its in-house ad.

The Instinct To Preserve (Ellen Goodman, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38295-2002Aug2.html>
Is that how we will be seen by our children? As people with an outrageous appetitie for excess?

A Folk Festival's Idol Returns (George Wein, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/03/opinion/03WEIN.html>
Bob Dylan returns to the Newport Folk Festival today after 37 years. The question is what will he do?

In The Dells, Where Youth And Nostalgia Ski Side By Side (Sara Rimer, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/02/travel/02AQUA.html>
For 50 years, impossibly good-looking, nimble young athletes have performed a tight choreographed water-skiing show on the choppy waters of Lake Delton, in northern Wisconsin.

If Only We Couldn't Understand Them (Joan Houlihan, Del Sol)
<http://webdelsol.com/f-bostoncomment.htm>
How contemporary American poets are denaturing the poem.

=== reader : expressions =============

Prayer (Kim Addonizio, San Francisco Reader)
<http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/addonizio%20poems.html>

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

Blog's The Word At MSNBC.com (Jim Hu, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1023-948211.html>
Web news site MSNBC.com will introduce a new Web logs section by the end of August, a move that will allow it more editorial control over the opinionated ramblings of its former online discussion boards.

4 Florida Newspapers To Charge For Online Content (Associated Press)
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Online-Newspapers.html>
News delivered online by four Freedom Communications Inc. newspapers in the Florida Panhandle is no longer free.

=== singapore top news =============

Singapore On Track For 4% Growth (Edna Koh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,135409,00.html?>
Singapore's economy is still on track to grow as much as 4 per cent this year. That is, as long as no more accounting shocks from corporate America rock the boat.

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

Get Ready For MacDonald's McCafe (Siow Li Sen, Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,2276,53269,00.html?>
The fast-food chain plans to open its first gourmet coffee shop in Singapore next year.

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