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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Free To A Good Home: A Captain Of Industry's Rejected Mansion
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/national/02house.html>
Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times

Those hankering for a 17,000-square-foot Spanish colonial freebie -- a 35-room mansion with wood-beamed ceilings designed in 1926 by a famous California architect -- may be in luck.

[Opinion]

*** With The Mac, Apple Has Lost Its Way
<http://www.internet-nexus.com/2004_12_26_archive.htm#110463124557524957>
Paul Thurrott, Internet Nexus

Steve Jobs learned the wrong lesson from the success of the iMac. What he should have learned is that Apple could return to its roots as a volume seller of simple, well-liked computers. But that's not what Jobs learned. Jobs took the success of the iMac as proof of something he had long believed: Despite no formal traiing and little evidence, Jobs suddenly believed he was the harbinger of world-class design.

*** The Rumor And The Damage Done: What Apple Is Really Going To Announce At Macworld Expo
<http://www.billpalmer.net/2005/01/rumor-and-damage-done-what-apple-is.html>
Bill Palmer

All the discussion now centers around a theoretical product that doesn't exist, never will exist, never had any chance of ever existing... and yet now, this non-existent entity is the center of attention of the platform. So guess what happens when Steve Jobs gets up there on stage in January and doesn't launch this non-existent product?

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The War Inside The Arab Newsroom
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/magazine/02ARAB.html?oref=login>
Samatha M. Shapiro, New York Times

Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed is trying to turn Al Arabiya into a new kind of Arab news channel, with fewer hostage tapes and more moderate voices. But that's hard to do when his employees aren't sure they want to change, American troops occasionally arrest his reporters and his anchors get personalized death threats from Iraqi insurgents.

[Tech & Science]

*** Even Einstein Had His Off Days
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/opinion/02singh.html?ex=1262408400&en=74e879540bcb52e1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Simon Singh, New York Times

While we should certainly laud his achievements over the next 12 months, we may learn a more valuable lesson by investigating Einstein's greatest failure.

[Life]

*** The All Too Ready For Prime Time Players
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/arts/television/02dave.html?ex=1262408400&en=05ae36e0a0a06bd7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt>
Dave Itzkoff, New York Times

How "Saturday Night Live" dulled its political edge and surrendered to the national obsession with celebrity scandal.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Says 9 Dead, 13 Missing, 81 Uncontactable After Tsunami Disaster
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/125340/1/.html>
Peral Forss, Channel NewsAsia