[MyAppleMenu] Aug 1, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's Second Tokyo Store To Open This Weekend
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/08/01/shibuya/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Apple will open a store in Tokyo's Shibuya district, the city's capital of teen cool, this weekend, the company said Monday.

*** iPod Nation Marches To A High-Tech Beat
<http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0508/01/A01-265729.htm>
Susan Whitall, Detroit News

*** Predictability Dulls Podcasts
<http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/entertainment/12267745.htm>
Tonya Jameson, Charlotte Observer

The problem is most iTunes users prefer podcasts produced by mainstream media companies. "It kind of ruins the whole independent feel of it."

*** Online Audio Book Leader Faces A Tough Future
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8777754/>
Associated Press

*** iPods The New Apple Of Robbers' Eyes
<http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_359040.html>
Andrew Conte, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Users fear iPods are becoming a "must steal" device.

*** MacHack Ends 20 Year Run
<http://www.macmegasite.com/node/2356>
MacMegasite

Due to dropping attendance, higher expenses, and fewer sponsors, the show could no longer be sustained.

[Opinion]

*** Apple To Add Trusted Computing To The New Kernel?
<http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/31/apple_to_add_trusted.html>
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

People working with early versions of the forthcoming Intel-based Mac OS X operating system have discovered that Apple's new kernel makes use of Intel's Trusted Computing hardware. If this "feature" appears in a commercial, shipping verision of Apple's OS, they'll lose me as a customer. This is a deal-breaker.

*** Discussion: Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/01/0421248&tid=179&tid=118&tid=3>
Slashdot

The new Intel kernel Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM, which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized.

[Wintel]

*** Windows Vista Takes Cues From Tiger
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1842175,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
John Rizzo, eWeek

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The New Crystal Ball: It's The Internet
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8767392/site/newsweek/>
Steven Levy, Newsweek

Giants of web commerce like Yahoo offer gobs of up-to-the-second marketing information.

*** More People Turn To The Web To Watch TV
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/technology/01video.html?ex=1280548800&en=e03e8c62f4f8383c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Saul Hansell, New York Times

As Americans grow more comfortable watching programs online, internet programming is beginning to combine the interactivity and immediacy of the web with the alluring engagement of television.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** Divided, We Stand
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/050808/8secular.htm>
Jay Tolson, U.S. News

America's long struggle to balance church and state isn't getting any easier.

*** Bad News
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/books/review/31POSNER.html>
Richard A. Posner, New York Times

The current tendency to political polarization in news reporting is a consequence of changes not in the underlying political opinions but in costs, specifically the falling costs of new entrants.

[Life]

*** What Did They Say, And To Whom Did They Say It?
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/31/AR2005073101051.html?nav=rss_print/style>
Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

Journalists are expending plenty of time and energy these days accusing other journalists of the sin of ripping them off.

*** Is Middle School Bad For Kids?
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1088694,00.html>
Claudia Wallis, Time

Cities across the U.S. are switching to K-8 schools. Will the results be any better?

*** My Need For Greed
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1538108,00.html>
Tim Adams, The Observer

Sex and drugs and drink and food... enough was never enough for William Leith.

*** The Pizza's Still Old World, Only Now The Old World's Tibet
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/nyregion/31cooks.html?>
Joseph Berger, New York Times

New tides of immigration have so transformed New York City that classic ethnic foods and drinks are increasingly being prepared by people whose ethnicity does not necessarily match the menu's.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Finance Ministry Seeks Views On Double Taxation Agreements
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/160934/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

*** Plug Cargo Leakage Via Singapore
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/8/1/maritime/11630883&sec=maritime>
The Star

Better co-ordination between agencies is needed to curb the 25% to 30% leakage of Malaysian air cargo for both import and export that are being airfreighted through Singapore.

*** Smoking Ban At Coffee Shops, Hawker Centres From July Next Year
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/160826/1/.html>
Farah Abdul Rahim, Channel NewsAsia

Singaporeans will soon not have to endure second-hand smoke when the ban starts at coffee shops and hawker centres next year.

The Shuffle by MyAppleMenu
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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** I Know, I Know, I Know
<http://www.teganandsara.com/index.php>
Tegan And Sara
<http://www.teganandsara.com/audio3/sojealous/iknowiknowiknow.mp3>

*** I Guess I Get A Little Emotional Sometimes
<http://www.paulkelly.com.au/audio.html>
Paul Kelly
<http://www.paulkelly.com.au/audio/I-Guess-I-Get-A-Little-Emotional-Sometimes-128kbps.mp3>