[MyAppleMenu] Jun 15, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** School Board OKs Laptops Extension
<http://www.eldoradotimes.com/articles/2005/06/15/news/news1.txt>
Steve Smith, El Dorado Times

At Monday night's meeting school board members gave their approval to a four-year lease-purchase agreement with Apple through which the district will be acquiring the laptops for the freshmen and sophomores.

*** Mainstream Media Embraces Podcasting
<http://playlistmag.com/features/2005/06/mainstrampodcast/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Mathew Honan, Playlist

Big media sees podcasting as potential revenue source.

*** PowerSchool President Departs In Management Shuffle
<http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506powerschool.html>
Nick dePlume, Think Secret

*** Macworld Boston To Have Focus On Music
<http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/14/expomusic/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Macworld

*** Apple Tops List Of Fastest Growing Brands As Digital Overtakes Traditional
<http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/br/article/479939/apple-tops-list-fastest-growing-brands-digital-overtakes-traditional/>
Sam Matthews, Brand Republic

Apple, creator of the iPod, is the fastest growing brand in the world, with internet brands Google, Amazon, Yahoo! and eBay following close behind, pushing notoriously powerful brands like Coca-Cola off the list.

*** Apple Seeks To Trademark Its Socks
<http://news.com.com/2061-10793_3-5746741.html?part=rss&tag=5746741&subj=news>
Ina Fried, CNET News.com

[Opinion]

*** Will Apple Be Forced To Licence Its DRM?
<http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23955>
Tony Dennis, The Inquirer

Ericsson alliance with Napster could force its hand.

*** Who Gets To Play Journalist?
<http://www.reason.com/0506/co.mw.who.shtml>
Matt Welch, Reason

An academic question becomes a pressing legal issue.

*** Intel At Apple's Core
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/06/14/25OPconnection_1.html>
Chad Dickerson, InfoWorld

Thanks to open source, Apple's big shift from IBM to Intel will have little effect in the real world.

*** It's iPod's Revolution: We Just Live In It
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/streetlife/0,15704,1071308,00.html>
Andy Serwer, Fortune

The Hula-Hoop was a fad. The iPod is having a major impact on markets.

*** The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
<http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/editors/2005/06/intelwaiting/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Jonathan Seff, Macworld

If you don't need a new computer now, there's no reason to buy one -- but if you do,there's no good reason to wait.

[Review]

*** An Introduction To Tiger Terminal, Part 2
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/14/terminal2.html>
Mary Norbury-Glaser, O'Reilly Network

If you made it through Part One unscathed, then you're ready to get some real work done.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Seeks Xbox Touch For Music
<http://news.com.com/Microsoft+seeks+Xbox+touch+for+music/2100-1027_3-5746569.html?part=rss&tag=5746569&subj=news>
John Borland, CNET News.com

With little sign that Apple's digital music dominance is on the wane, Microsoft's top Xbox executive is helping to look at ways to refocus the software company's music strategy.

*** My Response To Scoble
<http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/06/my_response_to_.html>
Rebecca MacKinnon, RConversation

Declining to collaborate would be the only way to show that your stated beliefin free speech is more thann empty words. If you believe that Chinese people deserve the same respect as Americans, then please put your money where your mouth is.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Bad News On The Spyware Front
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7230>
Preston Gralla, O'Reilly Network

*** U.S. Tweaks Passport Requirement
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,67849,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Associated Press

Ackownledging international concerns, the United States will revamp its biometric passport requirements to make it easier for foreign travelers from friendly nations to enter the country without a visa.

*** My Response To Scoble
<http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2005/06/my_response_to_.html>
Rebecca MacKinnon, RConversation

Declining to collaborate would be the only way to show that your stated beliefin free speech is more thann empty words. If you believe that Chinese people deserve the same respect as Americans, then please put your money where your mouth is.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** No Exit
<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/15/exit_polls/index.html>
Farhad Manjoo, Salon

A persuaive new theory explains why Kerry beat Bush in Election Day exit polls. Just don't expect those still crying "fraud" to believe it.

[Life]

*** So, You Want To Start A Film Festival... Don't.
<http://slate.msn.com/id/2120867/fr/rss/>
Grady Hendrix, Slate

If you're thinking of running a film festival: don't. It will ruin your life. It will clean out your bank account. It will drive away your friends. By the first fabulous day of your event you will wish you were dead.

*** New Sight In Chernobyl's Dead Zone: Tourists
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/international/europe/15chernobyl.html?ex=1276488000&en=ebd4eb259e8180ba&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
C.J. Chivers, New York Times

And now there are tourists, participating in what may be the strangest vacation excursion available in the former Soviet space: the packaged tour of the CChernobyl exclusion zone, scene of the worst civilian disaster of the nuclear age.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore's Unemployment Rate Rises
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/6/15/latest/20050615123706&sec=latest>
Associated Press

*** SIA Denied Access To Pacific Route
<http://www.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/06/15/singapore.airlines.reut/>
Reuters

Australia has decided not to grant Singapore Airlines access now to the lucrative Sydney-Los Angeles route, the government said on Wednesday.

*** Ads Make Appeal For ST Reporter
<http://www.asia1.com.sg/st/st_20050615_322715.html>
Reuters, AFP

More than 1,000 journalists and university alumni in Hong Kong yesterday took out separate full-page advertisements in three Chinese-language newspapers to ask China for open and just treatment of detained Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong.

[Opinion]

*** Problem Is Disposal, Not Use
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/56149.asp>
Ooi Chwee Kim, Singapoer Chemical Industry Council, Today

Better environment awareness would remove need to limit use of bags.

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

[Tunes]

*** Dumb Dumb Dumb
<http://www.teenagefanclub.com/music.html>
Teenage Fan Club
<http://www.teenagefanclub.com/Resources/Dumb%20Dumb%20Dumb.mp3>