[MyAppleMenu] Sunday, Feb 15, 2004

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MyAppleMenu Newsletter
Sunday, Feb 15, 2004

MyAppleMenu : Top Stories
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iTried iPod: A Classical View (Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer)
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/entertainment/7946505.htm>
Finding a piece on iTunes means wrestling with a structure clearly not designed with the classical buyer in mind.

MyAppleMenu : Opinions
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Tinker, Tailor -- But Not With An iPod (John Naughton, The Observer)
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1148182,00.html>
This illuminates a deeper paradox, namely the tension between the quest by designers for 'perfection' and the fact that users have an unruly desire to modify things.

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: Top Stories
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Search For Tomorrow (Joel Achenbach, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42885-2004Feb14.html>
We wanted answers, and Google really clicked. What's next?

MyAppleMenu Tomorrow: News & Opinions
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A Small Frown In America (Chidanand Rajghatta, Times Of India)
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/496981.cms>
It's not just Wall Street and Silicon Valley which are stung by outsourcing. Middle America is hurting too and that is why the politicians are upset.

MyAppleMenu Reader: World
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The Very, Very Personal Is The Political (Jon Gertner, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/magazine/15VOTERS.html>
Political parties are using enormous databases to learn everything about you so they can tailor their pitches for candidates just for you. Are campaigning and voting becoming just marketing and consumption?

Why Your Job Isn't Moving To Bangalore (Jagdish Bhagwati, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/opinion/15BHAG.html>
In a world economy, firms that forgo cheaper supplies of services are doomed to lose markets, and hence production. And companies that die out, of course, do not employ people.

MyAppleMenu Reader: Life
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The Failing Light (Paula Span, Washington Post)
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A30475-2004Feb10&notFound=true>
Why did a rising young poet plunge into despair, taking her own life and the life of her 2-year-old son?

When Love Is On The Menu (Alison Arnett, Boston Globe)
<http://www.boston.com/ae/food/restaurants/articles/2004/02/11/when_love_is_on_the_menu/>
Working together has always been a starting point for romance, and the restaurant industry is full of couples running establishments together, mostly the husband in the kitchen and the wife greeting customers. In the last decade, as more women have trained professionally and begun their own businesses, the dynamic has shifted.

The New Golden Age Of Acting (A. O. Scott, New York Times)
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/movies/oscars/15SCOT.html>
In 2003, Mr. Penn and Ms. Theron provided the most striking -- you might say the most dramatic -- evidence that we are living in an extraordinary period, one we will eventually look back up on as a golden age of screen acting.

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