[MyAppleMenu] May 3, 2003

Sat May 3 21:05:00 EDT 2003

MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Saturday, May 3, 2003

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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One Bad Apple (Joe Wilcox, BetaNews)
<http://www.betanews.com/article.php3?sid=1051927092>
The problem with the iTunes Music Store is that buying is too easy.

Back On Mac: PC Virus Worries, Transformed Mac Inspire Return Of Ex-Apple Addict (Linda Knapp, Seattle Times)
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/personaltechnology/134688239_ptmacintosh03.html>
I realize now that some Mac users advocate their choice so fiercely because they're defending an entire approach to technology development. It will be interesting to watch how these opposite approaches unfold over time.

MyAppleMenu : News
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X Communication (Joseph P. Kahn, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/123/living/X_communication+.shtml>
Hot products and artists with 'X' in their names are everywhere -- and it's no accident, say marketing experts.

Harris And Dougherty: Mac-Scribed Mutants Unite (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/video/harris-dougherty/>
"Our PowerBooks became mobile writing stations because AirPort lets us communicate really easily. And the new features in Final Draft let us constantly share revisions back and forth over the network."

Tim Bray: Search And Deploy (Joe Cellini, Apple)
<http://www.apple.com/pro/science/bray/>
"Behind the user interface is all the good stuff from Unix that I can use without thinking. You may not need to type "find .-name *.java -print | xargs wc -l | perl summarize.pl" very often, but when you do, you really do."

Speck Announces New iPod Skins, FlipStand (MacMinute)
<http://www.macminute.com/2003/05/02/speck>

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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DRMing Up Support For Steve's Music Shop (Andrew Orlowski, The Register)
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/30548.html>
A frantic surge of email in defense of Apple's online music service appeared yesterday. Here's a selection of letters from the week.

Apple Comes Closer To Perfect Pitch (Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8159-2003May2.html>
It isn't the best possible way to download music -- Apple has plenty of work to do there -- but it's a real improvement from what's come before.

MyAppleMenu : Reviews
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Looking Good (Micah Johnson, ComputerUser.com)
<http://www.computeruser.com/articles/2205,4,44,1,0501,03.html>
It's time you do something cool with your summer pictures, even if it means slide shows on a monitor instead of a wall.

>From Computer To TV, Via TiVO (Anthony Zurcher, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8117-2003May2.html>
The Home Media Option has room for improvement, but it's still an impressive addition to TiVo's repertoire. It should only get better.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow : News & Opinions
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Passport To Get Web Services Stamp (Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-999494.html>
Microsoft this summer will lay out a plan to make its .Net Passport authentication service more Web services-friendly.

Net Attack Crushes SCO Web Site (Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com)
<http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-999584.html>
An avalanche of data blocked access to the SCO Group's Web site for several hours Friday, said the company, which has come under fire from Linux fans for an ongoing lawsuit against IBM.

MyAppleMenu Reader : World
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Eggheads Unite (Daniel Duane, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/04STUDENT.html>
Is a teaching assistant an apprentice scholar or an exploited worker? That question is at the center of a heated battle between graduate students and administrators over unionizing.

City Slights (James Traub, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/04WWLN.html>
The cities themselves remain woebegone, in part because so much of their potential taxable wealth lies in the suburbs, beyond their reach.

Executives In Singapore Chafe At SARS-Related Travel Bans (Wayne Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/business/worldbusiness/03SING.html>
In the middle of a long May Day holiday weekend, many executives are chafing at the travel restrictions imposed by their companies, which are keeping them stuck here unable to visit clients, let alone fly off to one of the tropical resorts nearby to shake off what has been a trying month.

SARS In China Creates A Limbo For U.S. Families Eager To Adopt (Moncia Davey, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/national/03ADOP.html>
As the SARS epidemic grew, one small group of Americans stubbornly kept their travel plans to China. They were adopting babies there, and nothing would stop most of them. But during the past week, complications -- from closed offices to crippled transportation systems -- have begun delaying some trips, leaving families, who have waited more than a year for ths moment, in limbo.

Why Are They Now? (Michael Kinsley, Slate)
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2082388/>
On deficits, Republicans in Congress haven't just changed their minds—they've lost their brains.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Science & Tech
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Writing As A Block For Asians (Emily Eakin, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03ASIA.html>
A better understanding of Asian writing systems has not stopped Western experts from making grand claims about their virtues and limitations.

MyAppleMenu Reader : Life
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With Censors Gone, Books Reemerge (Laura King, Los Angeles Times)
<http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-war-books3may03,0,6932794.story?coll=cl%2Dbooks%2Dfeatures>
Vendors at a Baghdad market that once was a magnet for the Mideast's bibliophiles are eager for a revival. But they know it will take time.

X Communication (Joseph P. Kahn, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/123/living/X_communication+.shtml>
Hot products and artists with 'X' in their names are everywhere -- and it's no accident, say marketing experts.

Have It Their Way (Jonathan Reynolds, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/04CHEF.html>
Today's chefs whip up tomorrow's fast food.

The Futures of Food (Michael Pollan, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/04FOOD.html>
If the postwar food utopia was modernist and corporate, the new one is postmodern and oppositional, constructing its future from elements of the past rescued from the jaws of agribusiness.

Everybody Gets A Cut (Terrence Rafferty, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/magazine/04DVDS.html>
DVD's give viewers dozens of choices ? and that's the problem.

The Road To 1984 (Thomas Pynchon, The Guardian)
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,948203,00.html>
George Orwell's final novel was seen as an anticommunist tract and many have claimed its grim vision of state control proved prohetic. But, Orwell had other targets in his sights.

So It's Goodbye To Janet And John (Erica Wagner and Maureen Freely, The Times)
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-665753,00.html>
Once upon a time children?s books were as safe as the houses they were set in. Sex didn?t exist and vice happened only if it came with a Message. How different it is now.

Cover Stories: A Grand Slam For Media Monotony (Mike Conklin, Chicago Tribune)
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0305020013may02.story>
Imagine the surprise when, like a quadruple slot machine coming up with all cherries, each publication had the same image to illustrate the epidemic: a single person wearing a surgical mask.

Poetry Is Dead. Does Anyone Really Care? (Bruce Wexler, Newsweek)
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/905753.asp>
If you’re like me, untangling symbol and allusion seems as irrelevant now as it did in high school.

MyAppleMenu SingaporeSurf : Top Stories
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Executives In Singapore Chafe At SARS-Related Travel Bans (Wayne Arnold, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/business/worldbusiness/03SING.html>
In the middle of a long May Day holiday weekend, many executives are chafing at the travel restrictions imposed by their companies, which are keeping them stuck here unable to visit clients, let alone fly off to one of the tropical resorts nearby to shake off what has been a trying month.

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