[MyAppleMenu] May 17, 2002

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

New Home For New Vision: After-School Foundation Holds Open House (Charlie Breitrose, MetroWest Daily News)
<http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/local_regional/fram_newvision05172002.htm>
The gem of the new center is a computer lab filled with 16 Macintosh computers.

Interpreting History Through A Photo Lens (Marian Jarlenski, Chantilly Times)
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4159377&BRD=1899&PAG=461&dept_id=128652&rfi=6>
Mauro createed his maps with an old Macintosh laptop and a drawing program that is not even made anymore.

Apple Polishes Up LCD Technology (Bill Lammers, The Plain Dealer)
<http://www.cleveland.com/living/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/living/1021541649248440.xml>
Soon we might be thanking Apple for making it less expensive to watch TV from the hot tub.

Apple Offers Power Mac G4 Rebates (ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2110-1104-916002.html>

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

Educational Computing Done Wrong (Adam Robert Guha, Low End Mac)
<http://www.lowendmac.com/archive/02/0517.html>
Keeping the computers working well and fully updated will greatly contribute to the major focus of helping the student to learn efficiently and effectively.

Xserver: A Sign Of Good Things Ahead For Apple (Stephan Somogyi, ZDNet)
<http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2865868,00.html>
With the server version of Jaguar on the horizon, the future of Apple's re-entry into the serve rmarket--and the implications that re-entry has for the rest of the company--looks bright.

Objective-C? (Jonathan Gennick, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1411>
OS X is certainly out there in big numbers, lots of people are developing for it, and many of those people are using Objective-C.

The Comments That Just Won't Die (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/05/16.html#a1321>
Aren't Internet publications supposed to be able to publish more timely coverage of events and happenings?

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

China Unblocks Foreign Media Web Sites (Reuters)
<http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/3275760.htm>
China appears to have lifted long-standing blocks on the Web sites of several Western news organisations that were freely accessible through local Internet connections in Beijing and Shanghai on Thursday.

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

Am I Sorry To See Napster Go? Are You Kidding? (David Coursey, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-916306.html>
For all those folks trading Star Wars or Britney or Seinfeld, you have no defense in my court.

Microsoft Opts Passport Holders Into Spam Hell (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25314.html>
Emboldened by user 'apathy' to Yahoo!'s privacy changes in April, Microsoft has followed suit. It has now co-opted existing Passport users to share their email addresses and other registration information with third parties.

The Comments That Just Won't Die (Rob McNair-Huff, Mac Net Journal)
<http://www.whiterabbits.com/MacNetJournal/2002/05/16.html#a1321>
Aren't Internet publications supposed to be able to publish more timely coverage of events and happenings?

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

Microsoft Said States Not Harmed (Associated Press)
<http://www.wired.com/news/antitrust/0,1551,52601,00.html>
Microsoft's lawyers argued that the states, unlike the federal government, should have to show that their citizens specifically were harmed by Microsoft's illegal attacks on its competitors.

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

Microsoft Opts Passport Holders Into Spam Hell (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25314.html>
Emboldened by user 'apathy' to Yahoo!'s privacy changes in April, Microsoft has followed suit. It has now co-opted existing Passport users to share their email addresses and other registration information with third parties.

Microsoft Leaves Windows Open For Citrix (ASPnews.com)
<http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/article/0,,3411_1135991,00.html>

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

Romancing The Source (Lori Robertson, American Journalism Review)
<http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=2520>
The reporter-source relationship can blossom into something more intimate and more troubling, as evidenced by the Suzy Wetlaufer-Jack Welch affair. But other types of close ties between journalists and newsmakers can also pose nettlesome problems.

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

Napster's Wake (Janelle Brown, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/17/napster_wake/index.html>
The company that launched a thousand rips may be dead, but the movement it launched continues to thrive -- and to make a mockery of the music industry's pathetic online offerings.

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

The Iron Chef - Raw Talent (Russ Baker, Razor)
<http://www.razormag.com/v2-05-f2-iron-chef.php>
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto knows what he likes and it's the opposite of comfort food. In fact, the intense, Hiroshima-born gastronmic genius is the mortal enemy of anything remotely conventional in the kitchen or dining room. This makes it somewhat surprising that Morimoto's new restaurant in Philadelphia is attracting large crowds of diners who are probably mor efamiliar with the city's signature "cheesesteak" than with Morimoto brainstorms like Crab Brain Dip.

How Our Age Dumbed Down Even Invective (Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal)
<http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110001724>
The hateful things people say when words aren't allowed to hurt.

The Turth Is, Um, Where, Exactly? (Aaron Kinney, Salon)
<http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2002/05/17/x_files/index.html>
With 10 episodes down and only the two-hour finale to go, the promise has not only gone unfulfilled but is also starting to look like a downright hoax.

In A Galaxy Far From Hollywood (Sharon Waxman, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23143-2002May15.html>
George Lucas is a paradox: an independent moviemaker with billions to finance his own projects, a mom-and-apple-pie nostagic best known for creating futuristic fantasies. He's a visionary who abandoned Hollywood just when it most enthusiastically offered him the keys to the kingdom.

New York's Wildest Love Affairs (Michael Crewdson and Margaret Mittelbach, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/17/arts/17WILD.html>
It's springtime again, and the curious mating habits of New Yorkers can be observed all over town.

In Praise Of Balance (Peter Berkowitz, The New Republic)
<http://www.thenewrepublic.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20020520&s=berkowitz052002>
Isn't what presents itself as balance--in relations between the sexes, in politics, and in ultimate questions--really a mask for complacency or pandering or failure of nerve?

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

Earlier Bukit Panjang LRT Disruptions Caused By Wiring Faults: SLRT (Rozlin Othman, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/8278/1/.html>
Preliminary findings showed the faults resulted in a mismatch of data transmitted through its computers' dual channel feedback circuits.

Singapore Eyes Return To Positive Growth By Third Quarter (Business Times Singapore)
<http://business-times.asia1.com.sg/latest/story/0,2276,45337,00.html?>
Recession-hit Singapore should return to positive economic growth by the third quarter, the government said today releasing figures showing a 1.7 per cent year-on-year contraction for the March quarter.

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