[MyAppleMenu] May 31, 2002

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

Insiee The Apple iPod Design Triumph (Erik Sherman, Electronics Design Chain Magazine)
<http://www.designchain.com/coverstory.asp?issue=summer02>
No doubt subsequent versions of the iPod will yield a revised design chain as different components and optimizations are discovered and needed. But for now, Apple's first design chain strategy and product have been a success.

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

FireWire Picking Up Speed (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/31.firewire.php>
The biggest change for FireWire may not be the doubling of speed, but the distance provided by the specification.

Schools To Spend Billions On Technology (Margaret Kane, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-928719.html>
Public schools in the United States will spend $9.5 billion on information technology by 2006, up almost 16 percent from this year, according to a new report.

"Blue Car" Arrives (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/05/bluecar/index.html>
Final Cut Pro and Cinema Tools tune indie feature "Blue Car" for Sundance and Miramax.

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

New Netscape Browser Merely Plays Catch-Up (Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press)
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/72688_netscape31.shtml>
Browsers are now evolving like word processors. New releases are greeted with more yawns than cheers as developers pile on more mostly unused bells and whistles.

Making Labels (Larry Magid, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/419540p-3345723c.html>

Apple Titanium PowerBook G4 (Brett Larson, TechTV)
<http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/products/story/0,24330,3386651,00.html>

Mathematica 4.1 (Ian Sammis, MacAddict)
<http://www.macaddict.com/issues/0206/rev.mathematica.html>

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

AOL Test May Renew Browser War (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,52873,00.html>
With the browser wars of the late 1990s eclipsed by Microsoft's antitrust trial, the burning question seems to be: Why bother?

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

Yahoo Goal--Score With World Cup (Jim Hu, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-929340.html>

Critics Say ICANN Should Compete For Net Governance (David McGuire, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29579-2002May29.html>
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) should be forced to compete for the right to continue managing the Internet's global addressing system, a group of influential public interest groups said today.

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

Microsoft: Don't Blame Us (Dan Gillmor, San Jose Mercury News)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/business/columnists/dan_gillmor/ejournal/3362058.htm>
Once again, Microsoft substitutes arrogance for thoughtful consideration of a serious issue.

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

AOL Test May Renew Browser War (Paul Boutin, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,52873,00.html>
With the browser wars of the late 1990s eclipsed by Microsoft's antitrust trial, the burning question seems to be: Why bother?

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

Farewell At Ground Zero (Lynne Duke, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36559-2002May30.html>
And when it ended an hour after it began and when the bagpipes fell silent, the fathers hugged tightly and slapped each other's backs. And they returned, along with the thousands of other still-grieving relatives, to daily life, such as it is.

Where Twin Towers Stood, A Silent Goodbye (Dan Barry, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/nyregion/31SITE.html>
At 10.29 yesterday morning, after the tolling of bells and inthe presence of thousands, silence took its proper place.

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

Better Mousetrap (Elisa Williams, Forbes)
<http://www.forbes.com/global/2002/0610/056.html>
Having been burned on Internet schemes, Disney has reinvented its approach to technology to get closer to its customers. Maybe a little too close.

Engineered To Run Wild (Nell Boyce, U.S. News)
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020603/misc/3mosquito.htm>
Genetically altered animals could be released to fight pests and disease.

'Are We There Yet?' Becomes 'Where's The Barney Tape?' (Stacy Kravetz, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/automobiles/31DRIV.html>
Although the entertainment systems are still in just a small number of cars, every maker of S.U.V.'s and many carmakers either offer the systems on some models or plan to offer them in the near future.

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

Breathtaking Spring Makes hassle Fade (Mark Simon, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/30/BA60162.DTL>
This is why we live here.

When 300 Baud Was The Bomb (N.Z. Bear, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/31/back_in_the_day/index.html>
Once upon a time there was no Internet. And it was good.

The Socialist Economics Of College Tuition (Peter Scheer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2066353>
Why elite universities charge $38,000 per year, and why they don't expect you to pay it.

Skeleton Keys (Libby Copeland, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36421-2002May30.html>
Smithsonian anthropologists unlock secrets in bones of ancestors and crime victims.

It's All About Finesse (Meg Hourihan, megnut.com)
<http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=2002_05_01_archive.inc#20020530>
I knew if I were a chef, I'd approach things in a similarly obsessive and perfectionistic, yet Zen-like, manner.

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