[MyAppleMenu] Jun 1, 2003

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Jun 1, 2003

MyAppleMenu : News
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Web Without Wires (Lisa Gill, Hoosier Times)
<http://www.hoosiertimes.com/stories/thisday/scene.0601-SH-F1_CMK14001.sto>
Armed with a $250 Apple AirPort Extreme station and a DL high-speed Internet connection, Steve Volan is providing his customers with the ability to surf the Web, download e-mail and electroncially chat with friends -- for free.

Apple To Open Store In Richmond, VA Area (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19615>
"The new store will be at Short Pump Town Center, an upscale mall nearing completion in Henrico County."

Giant Bank Dumps Apple Mac Customers (Adamson Rust, The Inquirer)
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9778>
Get lost, we don't want your business.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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99-Cent Songs Online Not Really A Bargain (Jim Hillbish, The Repository)
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?Category=26&ID=103062&r=1>

The Jaguar Report: Migration Conspiracies Revisited (Gene Steinberg, Mac Night Owl)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2083733/>
Aren't we forgetting why Apple bought NeXT in the first place?

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Reader Notes Flaw In Some iPod Belt Clips (MacNN)
<http://www.macnn.com/news/19614>
"The plastic part that hooks the carrying case to my belt buckle broke and my iPod fell 1 story onto our concree patio."

New iPod Is Not Necessarily Improved (Michael Prager, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/152/living/New_iPod_is_not_necessarily_improved+.shtml>
What I want more of its battery capacity. But in service of sleek, they reduced it from 10 hours' time to 8!

iPod Is An All-Star; Neuros Is Still A Rookie: Challenger Shows Promise, But It Needs More Seasoning Before It Can Take On The Cagey Veteran Of MP3 Players (Edward C. Baig, USA Today)
<http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030528/5193184s.htm>
Apple remains at the top of its game.

MyAppleMenu : Wintel News
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Microsoft To Abandon Standalone IE (Evan Hansen, CNET News.com)
<http://rss.com.com/2100-1032_3-1011859.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news>
Microsoft is phasing out standalone versions of its Internet Explorer Web browser, according to statements attributed to IE program manager Brian Countryman in an interview posted on the software giant's web site.

Microsoft's New Linux Gambit (Charles Cooper, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2010-1071_3-1010057.html>
Listen closely to what Microsoft is not saying about SCO Group's open-source operatta.

Going For A Streak-Free Finish (Robert X. Cringely, PBS)
<http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030529.html>
Will Microsoft's answer to Linux be Windex instead?

More Wintel News at <http://www.myapplemenu.com/wintel/>

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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The Web Can Be Tangled For Parents With Questions (Sana Siwolop, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/business/yourmoney/01PARE.html>
Many busy parents tend to go first to the Internet when looking for resources for raising their children, but that doesn't mean that they always like what they find.

Spamology (Tom Zeller, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/weekinreview/01ZELL.html>
Spam is everywhere, including on the lips of legislators.

Analysts To SCO: No Thanks To Code Review Offer (Patrick Thibodeau and todd R. Weiss, Computerworld)
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,81695,00.html>
Analysts are balking at SCO's offer to view its proof that there is illegal Unix code in Linux, with one calling the move a publicity stunt.

Stopping Spam Isn't As Easy As You Might Hope (John R. Levine)
<http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200305/msg00212.html>
I'm not arguing that nothing can work so we should throw up our hands, but it's dismaying that the same old unworkable anti-spam approaches keep reappearing over and over, reinvented by people who haven't done the most rudimentary invstigation of prior work.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Dr. No And The Yes Men (Matt Bai, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/magazine/01DEAN.html>
Howard Dean has cast himself as the one true Democrat in opposition to Bush. And he doesn't care if he takes those mushy, moderate mollifiers right down with him.

A Theory Of Everything (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/opinion/01FRIE.html>
After 9/11 people wondered, "Why do they hate us?" speaking of the Muslim world. After the Iraq war debate, the question has grown into, "Why does everybody else hate us?"

The Slave History You Don't Know (Scott McLemee, The Chronicle Of Higher Education)
<http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i36/36a01401.htm>
A scholar's startling study of hte Southwest wins unprecedented acclaim.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Mob Software: The Erotic Life Of Code (Richard P. Gabriel and Ron Goldman)
<http://www.dreamsongs.com/MobSoftware.html>
I've got good news: That way of hacking you like is going to come back in style.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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A Safe Place: Finding An Alternative Universe In Books (Leonard Chang, San Francisco Chronicle)
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/01/CM123342.DTL>
And then you find your voice.

A Few Words On Sex (Dean Kulpers, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-ca-kuipers1jun01,0,1120835.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
Pop culture's saturated, but fiction writers have yet to find a language to describe its complexity.

The Game Of Life (David Von Drehle, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50441-2003May28.html>
Can an inept golfer improve his score by improving his soul?

They Shall Not Pass (Tony Saint, The Observer)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,967861,00.html>
At Heathrow, they know how to spot an asylum-seeker -- he'll be in dodgy shoes and flying in on a Sunday.

The Never-Ending Story (Abigail Young as told to Harriet Brown, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/magazine/01LIVES.html>
Everyone told Brian he's a miracle boy, and he's proud of that. But on some level he's got to know that he went through something nightmarish. That it wasn't just a miracle. It was terrible.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : News & Opinions
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Museum's Piece Of Art Can Be Borrowed Home Under Public Art Library Scheme (Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia)
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/41123/1/.html>
In an effort to encourage greater art appreciation, members of the public can now borrow a piece of art hanging in the museum to be put in their home.

Singapore Celebrates Its Victory In SARS War (Jacqueline Wong, Reuters)
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SIN7051.htm>
A relieved Singapore celebrated its victory over SARS on Saturday with stores on its Orchard Road shopping street offering big discounts and thousands of people expected to gather for a riverside party.

Sars-Free, Now To Fine-Tune Crisis-Handling (Salma Khalik and Wong Sher Maine, Straits Times)
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/topstories/story/0,4386,192218,00.html?>
Hospitals will have three alert levels -- each having a set o fprecautions. Plans afoot for memorial and book on crisis.

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