[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Dec 7, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Dec 7, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Listening (Brent Simmons)
<http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2726>
What Apple did in this case was listen to the problem rather than specific solutions, and they came up with a solution that probably nobody had asked for -- but that works wonderfully (and that, as a bonus, delights people who use it).

MyAppleMenu : News
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Students Learn How To Use Video Technology (Jennifer burd, Daily Telegram)
<http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2003/12/05/news/news05.txt>
The standard academic report as generations of grade school studnets have known it is clearly evolving.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Bigger Monitor Display Isn't Necessarily Better (Glenn Fleishman, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/2001808822_ptmacc06.html>
If mot of what you do is vertically oriented -- scrolling down Web pages, creating Web pages, writing or reading documents, sending  and receiving e-mail -- you can't effectively use the side-by-side page ability that a 20-inch monitor affords.

Burning Monkey Casino (Kirk Hiner, Applelinks)
<http://www.applelinks.com/pm/weblog.php?id=P249>
Ultimately, Burning Monkey Casino is a decent game, it just can't rise above its genre.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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Handling Web Services With Care (Terry Noreault, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2010-7345_3-5113895.html>
As the Web services movement rides the crest of a marketing wave promising "etopia" in full-spectrum business integration, a closer look reveals that many new tools are still not ready for prime time.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Science & Tech
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'We Can Implant Entirely False Memories' (Laura Spinney, The Guardian)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1098943,00.html>
You were abducted by aliens, you saw Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, and then you went up in a balloon. Didn't you?

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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Boob Tube (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Washington Monthly)
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0310.wallace-wells1.html>
MTV used to be about ambition. Now it's about hot tubs.

The L.A. Advice Guy (E. D. Maytum, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-adviceguy49dec07,1,7838173.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine>
The frenzied search for replacements for Dear Abby and Ann Landers had at its core a strange double standard.

Greens And Doctors Are Against Them, And Now It Seems They Cause Arthritis Too. Can Anything Save Chopsticks? (Hector Mackenzie, Sunday Herald)
<http://www.sundayherald.com/38527>
The Year of the Goat has not been kind to chopsticks.

The Writing On The Wall (Tracy Mayor, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2003/12/07/the_writing_on_the_wall/>
Though handwriting's days may be numbered, traditional cursive is still taught exactingly in New England classrooms.

When Political Art Mattered (Jesse Green, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/magazine/07AIDS.html>
Only once in the 20th century did plays and posters and other creative works really change the consciousness and the policies of the country: the 80's, in response to the AIDS epidemic. How? And why?

How 'The Nutcracker' Became An Institution (Nicholas Fox Weber, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/07WEBERT.html>
That the origins of this performance were part czarist, part Orthodox Church, part German fairy tale reconfigured by a French novelist, speaks also of the wonderful way that culture, like sports, bursts the boundaries of nationalism.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Singapore Turns Sewage Into Water (The Age)
<http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/06/1070625583636.html>
Singapore, always in search of creative ways to bring in tourist dollars, has unveiled a new attraction -- a high-tech plant which makes sewer water drinkable.

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