[MyAppleMenu] May 26, 2002

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

New Violators Of The DMCA? Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.co, Dozens Of Other Publications, And Us (Grant Gross, NewsForge)
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1740256&mode=nocomment&tid=4>
In yet another example of how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could trample on the First Amendment, Reuters may have violated the U.S. law by describing in a story this week how Sony's "copy-proff" protection for CDs can be defeated with a magic marker.

Export Success Is In The Bag (Anna Fenech, Sunday Telegraph)
<http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4387310%255E462,00.html>
US computer buff Ethan Nyholm and his fashion-company colleague Adina Kravsz began a successful export business based on the need for a computer laptop bag.

A Musical Tribute To Mac OS X Is Online (Dennis Sellers, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/25.tribute.php>
Looking for something a little different?

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

Pretty Creppy, Any Way You Interpret It (Doc Searls)
<http://doc.weblogs.com/2002/05/26#prettyCreepyAnyWayYouInterpretIt>
I can't believe Craig Barrett would actually sign this thing, but his signature is there. So are Steve Ballmer's and Michael Dell's. Significantly absent: Carly Fiorina, Steve Jobs, Ted Waitt.

Discussion: Bluetooth And Apple (MacSlash)
<http://www.macslash.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1751237>

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

Photoshop 7.0: The Standard Steps It Up (Stephen H Wildstrom, BusinessWeek)
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2002/tc20020524_8353.htm>
While the new features are hardly radical, they're also considerably more than the minor tweaks that one has come to expect in programs like Microsoft Word.

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

They're Not Treating Webcasters Like Royalty (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8271-2002May25.html>
How could such a diverse, creative medium be threatened with government-mandated financial ruin? Easy: Start with good intentions, then let the lobbyists go to town.

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

New Violators Of The DMCA? Reuters, Yahoo.com, CNN.co, Dozens Of Other Publications, And Us (Grant Gross, NewsForge)
<http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/22/1740256&mode=nocomment&tid=4>
In yet another example of how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could trample on the First Amendment, Reuters may have violated the U.S. law by describing in a story this week how Sony's "copy-proff" protection for CDs can be defeated with a magic marker.

Bertelsmann's Quest To Harness The Napster Genie (Alec Foege, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/business/yourmoney/26MUSI.html>
In its surprising decision to buy Napster's assets just days after the deal seemed dead, Bertelsmann has again proved itself a maverick in a generally cautious industry.

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

EU Probes Microsoft Over Privacy Law (Reuters)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1001-922911.html>
The European Commission is checking whether Microsoft's system of collecting personal data from Internet users breaks privacy laws, compounding the software giant's antitrust probe headaches in Europe. 

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

Xbox: Playing The Numbers Game (David Becker, ZDNet)
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-922604.html>
For the software publishing industry, video games are a numbers game. And for now, Microsoft is on the losing end.

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

Power And Weakness (Robert Kagan, Policy Review)
<http://www.policyreview.org/JUN02/kagan.html>
It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world.

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

Romancing The Rose (Hazel White, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/25/HO221049.DTL>
When I started out innocently wondering why so many people love roses, I didn't think I'd be writing about bees and sex. And I didn't think it had anything to do with me. I wasn't one of the people besotted with roses.

Literary Road Trip (Mimi Avins, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-052602handlers.story>
When an author goes on a book tour, a media escort is firmly at the wheel.

The End Of The Affair (Walter Kirn, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/magazine/26WWLN.html>
Could it be that the great role reversal failed and that the Hollywood-Washington nexus of the 90's that gave us George magazine, Bill Clinton rocking the vote on sax and the brief but curiously intense Warren Beatty-for-president episode has come undone at last?

For Teenagers Natonwide, It's New York And It's 1904 (Tara Bahrampour, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/nyregion/26NEWS.html>
For hundreds of young women in their teens and early 20's, the film "Newsies" struck a chord, spawning a cult following that spans the United States and extends even to Europe.

The Wonders Of Genetics Breed A New Art (Steven Henry Madoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/arts/design/26MADO.html>
If art in the broadest sense peers into the mysteries of life, then an art dedicated to the structure of life itself is of momentous relevance.

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

$209,000 Baby Led To Policy Change (Salma Khalik, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/primenews/story/0,1870,122036,00.html?>
Premature baby's hefty hospital bills led to chnages to help private patients in public hospitals downgrade ward class.

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

Explosion At Jalan Bukit Merah, 1 Hurt (Julie Ng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/8976/1/.html>
The incident, said to be caused by compressed air, happend on Saturday night, leaving a big hole in the road and one man injured.

Show Me The Money And I'll Show You My Body (Arlina Arshad, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,1870,122020,00.html?>
And some retrenched and cash-strapped people will, for anything between $1,000 and $50,000, say talent agencies here.

Is That All You Have To Say, Andrea? (Natalie Soh, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/life/story/0,1870,121996,00.html?>
Now that Andrea De Cruz has a new lease on life, she wants to put the slimming pill issue behind her. Shouldn't she have taken the chance to send out a strong message?

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