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Mac news for Mac people

[Top Stories]

*** To Know Me, Know My iPod
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/weekinreview/28schw.html>
John Schwartz, New York Times

Somehow, I had ended up inside of Ken's head -- in Kenworld.

[News]

*** Passion For Music Keeps 'Hard Times' Rolling
<http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/11/28/ol.hardtimes.1128.html>
Lewis Taylor, The Register-Guard

"Hard Times", which won a Billboard music award in 2002 for Best Regional Music Video Show, has been picked up by several diferent broadcast and cable stations. Woodward produces "Hard Times" on his own time at home on a Macintosh computer and says his show's budget is pretty much nonexistent. His staff, he says, consists of "me, myself and iMac."

[Sidetrack]

*** You Know, When I Was Young...
Heng-Cheong Leong

Once upon a time in Mac OS X land, if you remember, Finder used to suck <http://daringfireball.net/2002/11/that_finder_thing>.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Wikipedia Creators Move Into News
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65819,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Joanna Glasner, Wired News

After doing much in recent years to revolutionize the way an encyclopedia can be built and maintained, the team behind Wikipedia is attempting to apply its collaborative information-gathering model to journalism.

*** Computer Analysis Is Bringing Science To Art
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18423-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_nation/science>
Rick Weiss, Washington Post

Some will find it hard to believe that a computer can eye a piece of art and detect the almost ineffable subtleties that together decalre it the work of a master. Art is, after, more art than science.

*** Internet Access, Delivered From Above
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/technology/29max.html?oref=login&ex=1259384400&>
Ken Belson, New York Times

WiMax delivers broadband Internet connections through fixed antennas that send and receive signals across entire cities.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** You Can't Get Here From There
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/29/opinion/29nye.html?oref=login&ex=1259470800&>
Joseph S. Nye Jr., New York Times

Balancing security risks against the political and economic benefits of admitting foreign students has always been a problem. It is now doubly difficult in a post-Sept. 11 world, but the recent enrollment declinde suggest we have not yet go the balance right.

[Life]

*** The Bell Curve
<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?041206fa_fact>
Atul Gawande, New Yorker

What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?

*** Royal Flush
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2004/11/28/royal_flush/>
Monica Collins, Boston Globe

Why do restaurants see the need for luxe loos?

*** Tweens 'R' Us
<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/magazine/28WWLN.html>
Ann Hulbert, New York Times

According to a leading expert on branding, 80 percent of all global brands now deploy a "tween strategy." That is hardly surprising, given that the age group is estimated to be directly involved in spending $15 billion a year and to "heavily influence" more than $30 billion in other spending by parents.

[Expressions]

*** Foreigners
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/?041206fi_fiction>
Andrew O'Hagan, New Yorker

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Ships New Troops To Iraq
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-singapore28nov28,0,3650833.story?coll=la-home-world>
Associated Press

Singapore dispatched a troop landing ship with a crew of 180 to Iraq on Saturday.

*** Singapore Urges Myanmar To Push Forward On Democracy Roadmap
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/119503/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Lee Hsien Loong's press secretary said Mr Lee expressed his concern as the situation in Myanmar affected ASEAN's standing and credibility. Such concerns are usually expressed behind closed doors at ASEAN meetings.

*** AML Heartland Makeover Mess
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/30243.asp>
Tor Ching Li, Today

Three upgrading programmes worry residents and shopkeepers.

*** Some Food Centres Keen To Go Smoke-Free
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/sub/singapore/story/0,5562,287643,00.html?>
Arti Mulchand and Crystal Chan, Straits Times

More than half of the 20 operators that The Straits Times spoke to said they would go smoke-free, following an indication by Minister for the Environment Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim in Parliament that the list of places where smoking is banned, including hospitals and shopping malls, is being reviewed.