[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Aug 10, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Aug 10, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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City Officials Fear Apple Expo May Not Return (James Collins, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/222/metro/City_officials_fear_Apple_expo_may_not_return+.shtml>
After a discouraging turnout at this year's event in New York, any conference IDG might hold in Boston next year would likely be disappointing.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Santee Buys Way To Track Attendance (Alex Lyda, Union-Tribune)
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030807-9999_2m7santee.html>
Facing a dip in funds because of declining enrollment, Santee schools have adopted an increasingly popular attendance-monitoring software.

Computers Here To Stay In Music Recording (Michael P. Regan, Associated Press)
<http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~1562709,00.html>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Consumer Reports Repeats Silly Mac Myths (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://www.macnightowl.com/newsletters/2003/08/193.htm#reports>
If Consumer Reports can't deliver the straight scoop about personal computers, it makes me suspect the quality of its other reports.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Books Offer Step-By-Step Way To Learn New Software (Linda Knapp, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001451097_ptgett09.html>
Books are extremely useful tools for learning what you want to know without having to sit through more. It's easy to skim or skip the parts you don't need, and to slow down and study the essential information.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Straight From THe Spleen (Jack Shafer, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2086810/>
The Washington Post's Lisa de Moraes gives the entertainment-information industrial complex hell.

The Truth About Polygraphs (Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/globe/magazine/2003/0803/coverstory.htm>
A National Academy of Sciences study validates long-held doubts about the reliability of polygraphs. So why does the government still rely on them to screen applicants for jobs?

Year In Japan Was A Study In Subtlety (Naomi R. Kooker, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/218/food/Year_in_Japan_was_a_study_in_subtlety+.shtml>
When Victoria Abbott Riccardi returned from a stay in Kyoto, Japan, 17 years ago, friends stopped her, wondering how she had changed. Did she cut her hair? some asked. "They couldn't really pinpoint it," says Riccardi, as she prepares a Japanese lunch in her home here.

A Laboratory Of Taste (Arthur Lubow, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10SPAIN.html>
Barcelona, not Paris, is now the vanguard capital of Europe -- not least because of its wildly experimental cooking. And no one there is cooking more daringly and ingeniously than Ferran Adria.

The House Filmgoers Love To hate (Jesse McKinley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/movies/10MCKI.html>
In a city famed for both fierce devotion to its cultural landmarks and critical cultural consumers, the love-hate relationship between audiences and the Angelika is one of the most pungent. And the griping about the Angelika Film Center on Houston Street in Greenwich Village -- "the centerpiece of independent film exhibition in NYC," as its Web site advertises -- remains one of many moviegoer's dirty pleasures.

Why It's A Wide Wide Wide Wide Screen (A. O. Scott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/movies/10SCOT.html>
Old movies look better than new movies on your TV because TV scared the Hollywood studios into making screens wider.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Growth Slows (AAP)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/09/1060360543776.html>

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