[MyAppleMenu] Nov 22, 2002

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Friday, Nov 22, 2002

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Apple 'It' Girl Breaks Silence (Leander Kahney, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56528,00.html>
Ellen Feiss, whose fame continues to grow even as she eschews the media spotlight, has finally granted her first sitdown with a reporter, albeit from an unlikely publication.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Drops In Microsoft Country (Manny Frishberg, Wired News)
<http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,56531,00.html>
Apple must really want to get in Microsoft's face. That could be one reason Apple plans to open the first branded retail store north of San Francisco in the upscale Bellevue Square Mall, less than two miles from Bill Gates' Medina, Washington, mansion.

Mac Attack Headed For Ala Moana (Russ Lynch, Honolulu Star)
<http://starbulletin.com/2002/11/21/business/story2.html>
Apple is running advertisements on its Web site, www.apple.com, seeking applicants for a store manager and assistant manager for a new Ala Moana store.

Merging Rock Music And Multimedia: It's A Sinch (Nancy Eaton, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2002/11/sinch/>
"It allows for instant performance and it completely reshapes in my mind. It’s just opened up a totally new world for me."

Crowds Flock To MacExpo (Jonny Evans, Macworld UK)
<http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/top_news_item.cfm?NewsID=5591>
Hundreds of Mac users braved the rain to attend MacExpo 2002 yesterday. Queues formed outside Islington’s Business Design Centre before the event’s official 10am start.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Discussion: Ellen Feiss Interview (Slashdot)
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/1318247>

Does Apple Need To Upgrade The Original iMac? (Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac)
<http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=1288>
If Apple really wants to keep the iMac pitched at schools as an budget-priced, entry level Mac, it doesn't need to upgrade the spec; it needs to practically give them away.

Apple Of Your iMac (Neil McIntosh, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,12449,845559,00.html>
If trade show crowds are anything to go by, then the scrum at this year's UK MacExpo, continuing in London today, shows the Mac market to be in good health.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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It's A Season Of Joy For Those Gaga Over Gadgets (Bob LeVitus, Houston Chronicle)
<http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/tech/weekly/1672542>
With the gift-giving season upon us, here's my holiday guide to gadgets guaranteed to generate gladness in the heart of your favorite Mac enthusiast.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : Top Stories
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Computing's New Shape (The Economist)
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1454436>
As two industries collide, a new kind of computer may emerge.

AOL Plans To Adopt Cable-Like Scheduling (David A. Vise, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23517-2002Nov21.html>
America Online Inc. plans to offer future Internet services in ways that more closely resemble cable television, with targeted programming scheduled for specific days of the week based on the varying interests of its subscribers, according to sources familiar with the proposal.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Lindows Vs. Windows: Round 3.0 (Harry McCracken, PCWorld)
<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1093&ncid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20021122/tc_pcworld/107103>
With or without the Lindows name, Robertson admits that going head to head with Bill Gates won't be easy.

Agency Weighed, But Discarded, Plan Reconfiguring The Internet (John Markoff, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/politics/22TRAC.html>
The Pentagon research agency that is exploring how to create a vast database of electronic transactions and analyze them for potential terrorist activity considered but rejected another surveillance idea: tagging Internet data with unique personal markers to make anonymous use of some parts of the Internet impossible.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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What's Worse Than A Hawk? A Dove (Mick Hume, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2002-11-16&id=2494>
Arguments against a war with Iraq are even more pathetic than those for it.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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>From Wolf To Dog, Yes, But When? (Nicholas Wade, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/22/science/22DOGS.html>
Few relationships are so laden with mutual benefit as that between man and dog. Much of the credit for this unusual state of affairs, it now turns out, may lie on the canine side of the equation.

Scientists Planning To Make New Form Of Life (Justin Gillis, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17496-2002Nov20.html>
Scientists in Rockville are to announce this morning that they plan to create a new form of life in a laboratory dish, a project that raises ethical and safety issues but also promises to illuminate the fundamental mechanics of living organisms.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Why Does Everyone Loves Raymond? (Virginia Heffernan, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074388&device=>
CBS' Seinfeld for Catholics.

Deadlin Hollywood: The Untold Story (Nikki Finke, LA Weekly)
<http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/01/deadline-finke.php>
How corporate takeovers make the media less curious.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Singapore Paper Apologise, Pay Government (Associated Press)
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2002/11/22/latest/8938Singapore&sec=latest>
In an unusual case pitting Singapore's government-linked companies against the government-linked media, three local newspapers apologised Friday for publishing misleading commentaries.

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