[MyAppleMenu] Jan 6, 2002

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

Way Beyond AirPort (Dan Knight, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/musings/02/0106.html>
Imagine being able to access your data anywhere on the planet -- even while in flight.

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

Jobs Performance (Henry Norr, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/06/BU179178.DTL>
Jobs has managed to make the company once again a trendsetter for the industry, not only in design and marketing but also in technology.

Egg Soothes Website Fears (Jill Insley, The Observer)
<http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,628094,00.html>
Egg blamed the problem on a communication error with the site's certificate vendor, Verisign.

KCRW Giving Away "Mystery" Mac (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=11676>

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

Uesless Column Written Before The Word (John H Farr, Applelinks.com)
<http://www.applelinks.com/grack/grack_1-7-02.shtml>
I can say anything now.

Could Crypto Benchmarks Reveal New Macworld PowerMacs? (Michael Flaminio, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1332.html>

A Flat-Panel iMac Is Not Thinking Different Enough (Eliot Hochberg, MacEdition)
<http://www.macedition.com/op/op_eh_20020105.php>

Rumors Swirl Ahead Of Macworld 2002: A Move To Intel? (Robyn Weisman, NewsFactor)
<http://www.wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/15616.html>

The Aqua Letters (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/23562.html>
Our AquaRant&trade; provoked 180 emails in one day, and the total's heading for three hundred. Thanks for the kind words, stuff we hadn't thought of, and the useful tips.

=== reviews =============

OS X Lets You Travel Among Three Worlds (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/practicalmac/134387488_ptmacc06.html>
I have Unix, Windows and Mac OS X mere keystrokes away from me. Instead of having three inconveniently large boxes filled with humming hard drives, I've got a sub-6-pound iBook that nonchalantly and quietly handles this best of three worlds with the greatest of ease.

=== internet top news =============

Lawmaker: is CD Copy-Protection Illegal? (John Borland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8363449.html?tag=mn_hd>
Record companies' efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law.

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

Egg Soothes Website Fears (Jill Insley, The Observer)
<http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,628094,00.html>
Egg blamed the problem on a communication error with the site's certificate vendor, Verisign.

Some Online Holiday Shoppers Got Scrooged (Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/05/BU135446.DTL&type=tech>
Several online retailers failed miserably this Christmas to deliver last-minute orders on time.

Court Upholds State Statute On Spam (Bloomberg)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000001020jan05.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
The appeals court in San Francisco overturned a trial judge's ruling that the state law violates the U.S. Constituion's mandate that only Congress has the right to regulate commerce between states.

Still Alive And Growing Online, Without Fanfare (Miguel Helft, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/technology/06GLOB.html>
It is the kind of frugality that has kept expansion costs down at Global Sports, one of the few e-commerce companies that is still growing as if it were 1999.

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

Intel, AMD Set To Unveil Speedy New Chips (Reuters)
<http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/01/06/intel.amd.reut/index.html>
AMD will debut its Athlon XP 2000+, which runs at 1.67 gigahertz, while Intel will unveil its new Pentium 4 chip running at 2.2 gigahertz, analysts said.

=== reader : world =============

An Obligation To Question Prevailing Wisdom (Joel Beinn, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/sunopinion/la-000103089dec30.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dsunop%2Dmanual>
Vigorous debate is especially needed when our country is at war.

America As Reflected In Its Leader (Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington Post)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/weekinreview/06BUMI.html>
Something more unusual has happened to the nation's perception of its president.

Something In The Air On Flight 363 (Colbert I. King, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64767-2002Jan4.html>
Aw, shucks, dang, doggone and gosh-darn.

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

With All Thy Getting, Get Understanding (Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=922579>
Science is a celebration of the human spirit.

'The Future Of Ideas': Protecting The Old With Copyright Law (Daniel Zalewski, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/books/review/06ZALEWST.html>
America's concern with protecting intellecutal property has become an oppressive obsession.

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

Grate Expectations (Sue Webster, Financial Times)
<http://timeoff.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3LZ9G32WC&live=true&tagid=IXL3DQXONBC>
Fireplaces - and flames - are back in fashion. This time round, however, they are no simple holes in the wall but real works of art.

The Actress, The Producer And Their Porn Revolution (Ralph Frammolino and P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-010602porn.story>
Steven Hirsch recognized that VCRs could bring adult movies to a new market -- couples. But first he needed a different kind of star.

George Divoky's Planet (Darcy Frey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/06/magazine/06GLOBAL.html>
This is a story about global warming and a scientist named George Divoky, who studies a colony of Arctic seabirds on a remote barrier island off the northern coast of Alaska.

No-Fly Zone (David Montgomery, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64600-2002Jan4.html>
Since Sept 11, College Park Airport has been grounded in absurdity.

Sept. 11 Myths Embellished As They Speed Across The Web (Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post)
<http://www.washtech.com/news/media/14459-1.html>
All the stories were urgent and riveting -- and untrue.

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

Policy On Muslims In SAF Won't Change: DPM Tan (Lydia Lim and Steve Dawson, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,95104,00.html?>
Singapore will not practise idscrimination and abandon the principle of meritocracy.

Sengkang New Town To Get Three New Major Roads By Next Year (Ca-Mie De Souza, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com.sg/articles/2002/01/06/singaporenews16906.htm>
Sengkang's transport problems started in the mid-90s when its roads and commuting facilities did not keep up with the number of people moving in.

Don't Panic, Terror Network Has Been Disrupted: Singapore Government (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/breakingnews/story/0,1895,94985,00.html?>
All measures that can be reasonably taken to defend ourselves against terrorist threats have been taken.

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