[MyAppleMenu] Nov 15, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Mini-Porn Could Be Mega-Business
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401456.html>
Mike Musgrove, Washington Post

One of the quickest industries to take advantage of the new video iPod, and other new gadgets, is one that has often been at the forefront of other technological innovations: porn.

*** Two More CA Apple Stores This Weekend
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/11/14/two-more-ca-apple-stores-this-weekend/>
Dave Caolo, Unofficial Apple Weblog

*** Profits May Rock Podcasting World
<http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69566,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Steve Friess, Wired News

Nifty products and gizmos were ultimately a sideline at the Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference, where attendees wrestled with a far more fundamental point: whether this podcasting thing is -- or even should be -- a business.

*** Radio And Apple To Drive Podcasting
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BFE7444B8%2DE95A%2D4AAC%2DA1AE%2D63828A6EE40A%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw>
Frank Barnako, MarketWatch

*** Analysts Predict Strong Holiday iPod Sales
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2005/11/14/ipodsales/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Mathew Honan, Playlist

*** Podcasting Expo: The Fun And The Money
<http://playlistmag.com/news/2005/11/14/podcasting/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Cyrus Farivar, Playlist

*** Apple Legal Forces iPodder Name Change
<http://www.tuaw.com/2005/11/14/apple-legal-forces-ipodder-name-change/>
C.K. Sample, III, Unofficial Apple Weblog

[Opinion]

*** Software Lets You Expand iPod's Limited Video Options
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/tech/cst-fin-pod15.html>
Howard Wolinsky, Chicago Sun-Times

*** Audio File Concatenation: Driven To Distraction By DRM
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=08326>
Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

FairPlay didn't stop me from making my iPod easier to use with content I purchased from the iTunes Music Store, but it sure wasted a lot of my time.

*** Lennon Online
<http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,16559,1642854,00.html>
Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian

The rest of us, who've learned about technology piecemeal, ar ebeset by ignorance and option paralysis.

*** Digital Rights Mismanagement
<http://www.slate.com/id/2130300/>
Adam L. Penenberg, Slate

What's the hardest for the consumer to swallow is that anti-piracy schemes like DRM look like the subtle tactic of the monopolist.

*** iPod With Video No Likey Cellphones
<http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000450067883/>
Ryan Block, Engadget

Apparently certain amounts of radio interference emitted by cellphones can drive an iPod with video freaky crazy wild.

[Review]

*** Music Lovers: Macworld Gear Guide
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/features/gearguide_music/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Dan Frakes and Jonathan Seff, Macworld

*** Nine-To-Fivers: Macworld Gear Guide
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/features/gearguide_ninetofive/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Dan Miller and Cyrus Farivar, Macworld

*** Road Warriors: Macworld Gear Guide
<http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/features/gearguide_road/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
Dan Frakes and Dan Miller, Macworld

[Sidetrack]

*** Free As in Lunch, Free As In Freedom
Heng-Cheong Leong

The Macintosh comes with a suite of free (as in lunch) stuff; but more free stuff is definitely nice. (Plus, many of these free stuff are actually of high quality.)

Furthermore, they are also free (as in freedom). So, head onwards to Open Source Mac <http://www.opensourcemac.org/>, who is doing a good job in compiling all these stuff for you and me.

*** Stop Breaking My Record
Heng-Cheong Leong

When you see people setting up dominoes, you don't go and knock them down prematurely. The people will get angry, and they will kill you. Can't you just simply put this simple concept in your little bird brain <http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-11-14-domino-bird_x.htm>?

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Wikis Allow News, History By Committee
<http://news.com.com/Wikis+allow+news%2C+history+by+committee/2009-1025_3-5944453.html?part=rss&tag=5944453&subj=news>
Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com

News is one of the most effective uses of an oddly named technology.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The End Of News?
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18516>
Michael Massing, New York Review Of Books

The environment in which the press works is often inhospitable, but it's precisely in times of crisis and upheaval that some of the best journalism gets done.

[Tech & Science]

*** Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/1111_051111_junk_patent.html>
Brian Handwerk, National Geographic News

A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented.

[Life]

*** Less Style, More Substance
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/business/15hip.html?ex=1289710800&en=254688d5152cc30a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Susan Stellin, New York Times

On a web site for frequent fliers -- many of them business travelers -- a lively debate was unfolding in response to a question posted by a member: "Do people really like 'hipness' in hotels?"

*** Me & Mary-Louise
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/11/14/me__mary_louise/>
Mark Shanahan, Boston Globe

A fan hopselessly smitten with the award-winning actress gets to fall for her all over again at a BU exhibit.

*** My Life As A Penguin
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,13369,1642792,00.html>
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

They are the flightless birds everyone is talking about this winter, after a film about their mating and chick-rearing skills became a surprise U.S. hit. But can penguins really teach a man how to live, as some claim?

*** Their Misspent Youth
<http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2005/11/14/juvie/index.html>
Ayelet Waldman, Salon

Why is it so hard for politicians to understand that kids in juvenile detention need treatment not punishment?

[Expressions]

*** The Year Of Spaghetti
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/content/articles/051121fi_fiction>
Haruki Murakami, New Yorker

Nineteen-seventy-one was the Year of Spaghetti.

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Life in the city

[Ramblings]

*** A Nation Of Guilty People Until Proven Innocent
Heng-Cheong Leong

The attitude displayed by Ishwar Mahtani <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/84351.asp> in a letter to Today is precisely the problem the original writer complained about: presumption of guilt before being proven innocent in the courts.

"[The original writer] seemed more interested in protecting the names of those five HIV-positive men charged in court," he wrote, "than in frowning upon their rash act of putting people's lives at risk by making false declarations when they donated blood."

No, these five men have only been accused of making false declarations. They have not been proven to have gave false declarations. That's a dinstinction that we as a nation need to maintain -- especially the mass media.

By publishing Ishwar's letter, Today has further blurred this line, and has done a disservice to the judicial system of Singapore.

We can debate whether the names should be published before they are proven to be guilty or innocnet, and we can debate whether the names should be published after they are proven to be guilty or innocent, but, please, don't confuse the two scenarios.

*** Mommy, I Want Mamah
Heng-Cheong Leong

It's sad, isn't it? A lot of Singaporeans probably cannot survive without a maid <http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,352885,00.html?> on their sides. Even in hospitals, when they are supposedly being taken care of by the doctors and nurses.

*** Racists Police
Heng-Cheong Leong

Were there any doubts that many Singaporeans are racists, whether they belong to the Police force <http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,352719,00.html?> or not?

Leslie Craig Smith, in the Straits Times, wrote about his experience when his wife, mother-in-law and wife's neice -- all on Long Term Social Visit Passes and holding Cambodian passports -- came to visit them.

They have a nice lunch at Joo Chiat; Nice, that is, until the police conducted a raid at Joo Chiat, during which the police detained Leslie's wife for two and a half hours in Bedok North police station, despite her having valid documents.

Leslie's question:"If my wife was a European, would this have happen?"

The sad thing about racism is that, the majority of Singaporeans will not notice it exist.

[News]

*** Singapore Shocker: Maid's Day Off
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/14/opinion/edbowring.php>
Philip Bowring, International Herald Tribune

Recent news out of Singapore caused jaws to drop: Foreign domestic workers there may become entitled to one day off a month!

*** 'Starchitects' Being Wooed By Singapore Casino Project
<http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?ID=72005&GRP=h>
Sebastian Tong, Reuters

Singapore is wooing top architects such as I.M. Pei and Daniel Libeskind to design an iconic casino building on a par with Sydney's Opera House and Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum.

*** 'Drop Soft Approach Over Bilateral Issues'
<http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/National/NST40777927.txt/Article/indexb_html>
Anis Ibrahim, M. K. Megan, and Jason Gerald, New Straits Times

Several Members of Parliament from both sides of the House yesterday voiced their dissatisfaction over the soft approach adopted by Malaysia in solving outstanding bilateral issues with Singapore and Thailand.

*** A Jewel Of An Addition To Mount Faber
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/84371.asp>
Jasmine Yin, Today

Mount Faber has become taller and brighter, thanks to a 61-meter-tall Christmas tree.

[Opinion]

*** Camping Out At Singapore Changi Airport
<http://www.hojohnlee.com/weblog/archives/2005/11/13/camping-out-at-singapore-changi-airport/>
Ho John Lee

*** Expat's Foreign Wife Rounded Up In Police Raid At Joo Chiat Disco
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/forum/story/0,5562,352719,00.html?>
Lselie Craig Smith, Straits Times

To me this was unlawful and wrong. How dare the police take my wife away?

*** Weighing The Death Penalty
<http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,352877,00.html?>
Andy Ho, Straits Times

Even as Van's sentence has been found to be constitutional, and thus not illegal, activists might want to focus their energies on sociological research concerning the empirical question of whether the 15g rule is so low as to be purely arbitrary.

*** Citizens Haven't The Advantages That Journalists Have
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/84313.asp>
Charles Tan, Today

Readers cannot be informed if there is no free media.

*** And If You Are Not Queen, My Dear
<http://singabloodypore.blogspot.com/2005/11/and-if-you-are-not-queen-my-dear.html>
Singabloodypore

As a festival open to all, the programming needs to be accessible and have a broad appeal -- and this PLU event has a broad repugnance.

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[Tunes]

*** Popeye The Sailor Man
<http://www.ubu.com/outsiders/365/11-1.html>
San Joaquin School District

How can you not smile or react to such a performance?!
<http://mediamogul.seas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/365/365-Days-Project-11-15-san-joaquin-school-district-popeye-the-sailor-man-1973.mp3>