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[News]

*** iPod Newbies Find Device Does More Than Play Music
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0101ipod01.html>
Mary Beth Faller, Arizona Republic

*** NetNewsWire Beta Adds Podcast Receiver
<http://emperor.tidbits.com/webx?14@647.dDiLatCNSoe.0@.3c4f5c5c!discloc=.3c569508>
Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

[Sidetrack]

*** Happy New Year 2005
Heng-Cheong Leong

Catch some great QTVR over at Panoramas.dk <http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f1.html>, giving a glimpse on how people are celebrating the arrival of the new year around the world.

*** The Most Powerful Man On Earth...
Heng-Cheong Leong

... is of course Steve Jobs. Well, at least in the Mac industry. Find out <http://www.macjournals.com/gcsf/mdj_power_25_2004.html> who are the second to twenty-fifth most powerful people in the Mac industry.

*** Rumor Today: iWork '05, Jam Pack 4
Heng-Cheong Leong

All the rumors that you've seen before are all back. Think Secret <http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0412expo3.html> recycle iWork, the AppleWork replacement.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** New Year, New gadgets, And Maybe New Rules
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40100-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_technology>
Frank Ahrens, Washington Post

This year's action will take place in the living room and courtroom.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The Ends Of the World As We Know Them
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/opinion/01diamond.html?ex=1262322000&en=38bca49ee9859487&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Jared Diamond, New York Times

History warns us that when once-powerful societies collapse, they tend to do so quickly and unexpectedly.

[Life]

*** The Last Laugh
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35015-2004Dec29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/barrydave>
Dave Barry, Washington Post

Thanks to all you editors for printing my column, and thanks especially to all you readers for reading it. You've given me the most wonderful career an English major could hope to have. I am very grateful. And I'm not making that up.