[MyAppleMenu] Jun 14, 2003

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Saturday, Jun 14, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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Selling Out: The Pocket Jukebox That's Shaking Up The World's Music Industry (Danielle Demetriou, Independent)
<http://news.independent.co.uk/digital/news/story.jsp?story=415292>
Weighing little more than a tube of toothpaste and fitting easily inside the palm of the hand, an innocuous British-designed gadget is leading a revolution in the music industry.

MyAppleMenu : News
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Apple Re-Issues Security Update For Mac OS X (Jim Dalrymple, MacCentral)
<http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/06/13/securityupdate/>
Security Update 2003-06-09 2.0 apparently fixes a login problem where you had to hit the return key instead of the login button.

School Committee Nams Two To Consolidation Panel (Paula Gibbs, Wiscasset Newspaper)
<http://wiscassetnewspaper.maine.com/2003-06-12/wiscasset_school_committee.html>
Apple is offering school systems a three year payment plan [for Powerschool], with a very low or token payment the first year. If the school system signs on by June 30, the company will throw in a free $4,000 server.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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R.I.P. (Jeffrey Zeldman)
<http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0603a.shtml#rip>
On this grey and rainy day, this news of a kind of death brings no warmth.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Top Ten Digital Video Tips (Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network)
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/06/13/dv_tips.html>
Apply one or more of these tips to your movie making, and I guarantee you'll be rewarded with terrific results.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Robin, To The Googlephone! (Paul Boutin, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2084323/>
Need a Web browser to settle bar bets? Try the Sidekick.

No Concession From IBM In Linux Fight (Steve Lohr, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/technology/14LINU.html>
IBM said yesterday that it had no intention of reaching a quick settlement with the SCO Group.

McNealy's Last Stand (Gary Rivlin, Wired)
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/40mcnealy.html>
Technical muscle and a history of innovation made Sun a Silicon Valley standard-bearer. It also blinded famously combative Scott McNealy to the coming Linux wars. Now he's fighting to survive.

Sun's McNealy Cites Java Successes (Paul Krill, InfoWorld)
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/13/HNmcnealyjavaone_1.html>
"It's so last millenium to write to the OS. I think that's a big step forward."

SCO May Expand Linux Case Soon (David Becker and Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017267.html>
The SCO Group soon may open another front in its legal battle against Linux by filing suit against a major hardware manufacturer in North America, a company executive said.

When Will Wi-Fi Meet The Automobile? (Tony Perkins, AlwaysOn/Red Herring)
<http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=574_0_2_0_C>

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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The Dark Side Of Innocence (David Feige, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15ESSAY.html>
The obsessive focus on innocence runs the risk of eclipsing what should be the central issue of the criminal justice system -- protecting the rights of everyone.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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The Chimp Genome (Carl Gierstorfer, The Spectator)
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2003-06-14&id=3201%20%20>
According to the latest estimates, we share 98.8 per cent of our DNA with the chimpanzees. What distinguishes us from our closest living relative is due to a 1.2 per cent genetic distance.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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Construction Projects (Jonathan Reynolds, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15FOOD.html>
The definition of sandwich has become so liberal over the centuries that its mythic inventor, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, might not recognize its hundreds of varieties.

On Being An Anchorman (David Brinkley, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/opinion/14BRIN.html>
The anchor's role is difficult to assess, because there is nothing to compare to it.

Hawthorne And Son (Nathaniel Hawthorne, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/magazine/15LIVES.html>
When the writer was left to care for his 5-year-old, he stumbled through one misstep after another.

Father And Son, Soaking Up Affection (Amy Wallace, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/15/fashion/15BOB.html?8hpib>
If you have ever wondered what it would be like to have a superhero for a father, Mack Kenny, son of the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants, could fill you in.

American Bioscience Meets The American Dream (Carl Elliott, American Prospect)
<http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/6/elliott-c.html>
Here and abroad, the road to self-fulfillment is lined with drugs and surgery.

The Ghostly Salt City Beneath Detroit (Patricia Zacharias, Detroit News)
<http://www.detnews.com/history/salt/salt.htm>
Like a Jules Verne fantasy, a ghostly city with its own network of four lane highways lies deep beneath the industrial heart of Detroit, its crystalline walls glittering and gleaming in the flickering light. It is a world of no night or day. It is a world of salt.

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