[MyAppleMenu] Nov 17, 2002

Sun Nov 17 21:05:01 EST 2002

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Nov 17, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Derided Computer Plan Clicks With Maine Students (Elizabeth Mehren, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-na-laptops17nov17004438,0,5221023.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology>
Chided for giving all seventh-graders laptops, Gov. Angus King is now widely praised for raising education levels through technology.

Apple's New Net-Based Apps (Jay Greenspan, Webmonkey)
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/45/index1a.html?tw=eg20021115>
Yes the technologies we looked at in this article were all created by Apple. But now developers from outside companies will be able to integrate Internet data in their applications on the Mac platform. 

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Burn, Baby, Burn (Paul Boutin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/view.html?pg=2>
The real threat to the music biz isn't P2P -- it's CD-Rs swapped on the street.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Move2Mac (Michael Tedeschi, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61867-2002Nov15.html>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Xbox Launches Online Play (Tom Ham, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61855-2002Nov15.html>
People have been playing video games in their living rooms for decades, but only this year did it become easy to play against people in other living rooms.

4 Simultaneous Channels Okay For 802.11b (Jim Louderback, ExtremeTech)
<http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,708876,00.asp>
According to Mitch Burton, CTO of Cirond Networks, 4 of the 11 channels in North America, and 5 of the 13 in Europe can be safely used without significant interference or crosstalk – and this has significant ramifications for multi-access point deployments.

Burn, Baby, Burn (Paul Boutin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/view.html?pg=2>
The real threat to the music biz isn't P2P -- it's CD-Rs swapped on the street.

More Sites Targeted For Shutdown (William Matthews, FCW)
<http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1111/web-science-11-13-02.asp>
Having persuaded the Energy Department to pull the plug on PubScience, a Web site that offered free access to scientific and technical articles, commercial publishers are taking aim at government-funded information services offering free legal and agricultural data.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Public Schools And The American Dream (Hodding Carter III, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/17/ED82430.DTL>
The greatest single innovation of our democracy has been the idea of public school.

For Me, It Was Never About God (Rick Weiss, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61795-2002Nov15.html>
Why would an organization demand a rote expression of religious faith when it's in a position to cultivate the real thing from scratch?

Flooded With Comments, Officials Plug Their Ears (Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/weekinreview/17SEEL.html>
The public comment period has become a widely discredited measure of public sentiment because it has been susceptible to what critics call AstroTurf campaigns, the opposite of real grass-roots efforts, in which advocacy groups encourage their members to sign their names on form letters.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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In Theory, It's True (Or Not) (George Johnson, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/weekinreview/17JOHN.html>
With no way to get a grip on the slippery mathematical emulsion, verification seems impossible. The theory is so bad that -- to use physicists' worst possible epithet -- it is not even wrong.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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The Costly Case Of The Purple Pill (Neil Swidey, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2002/1117/coverstory.htm>
The story of one blockbuster heartburn drug tells you everything you need to know about the high cost of prescription medicine.

The Generation Gap (Barbara Ellen, The Observer)
<http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,841542,00.html>
Still waiting for your real life to start? Maybe you've got a 'placebo' existence.

Bringing Up Baby (Dave Bary, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50880-2002Nov13.html>
A survival guide to the pitfalls of parenting.

Office Envy (Jeanne marie Laskas, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50826-2002Nov13.html>
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's bookcase.

This Is A Headline For An Essay About Meta (Laura Miller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/magazine/17META.html>
Not quite parody but possibly ironic and probably postmodern -- what these jokes are, as the former English majors out there will no doubt recognize, is meta.

Central Florida, Pre-Mickey (Susan Harb, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/travel/17florida.html>
There are places where river cruises encounter real snakes and gators, not mechanical creations; where stately live oaks are the topiaries of cow pastures; and where your fish dinner comes from the lake where you caught it.

Making His Numbers (George Conrades, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/17/business/yourmoney/17BOSS.html>
Life is a sine curve, with its endless ups and downs. Things are never as good as they seem, or as bad as they seem.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Six Out Of 10 Young Singaporeans View Foreign Talent As A Threat: Survey (Rozlin Othman, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/24772/1/.html>
Nearly six out of 10 young Singaporeans view foreign talent as a threat, according to a recent survey of 10,000 young people between 15 and 35.

KL 'To Wait For Singapore Reaction' Before Its Next Move (Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,155401,00.html>
Malaysia will wait for Singapore to respond to its findings on the impact of the Republic's reclamation project in Pulau Tekong before formulating a mechanism to avert any potential environmental threat to the Johor coastline, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said.

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