[MyAppleMenu] Oct 10, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Altec Lansing Wireless Headset Connects iPod Mini, Cell Phone
<http://ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/altec-lansing-wireless-headset-connects-ipod-mini-cell-phone/>
Larry Angell, iLounge

*** School Board To Discuss Laptops
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767446183&path=%21news&s=1045855934842>
Olympia Meola, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Dell is craving another slice of the Apple pie. This spring, Dell beat out Apple to supply laptops to Henrico County high school students and teachers. And if Dell has its way, Henrico won't dish out Apples to middle school students and teachers next year.

*** Selling Songs For A Song
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9629461/site/newsweek/>
Johnnie L. Roberts, Newsweek

*** Japanese Music Industry Calls For An 'iPod Tax'
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/09/business/ipod.php>
Martin Fackler, New York Times

Japan's music industry has asked the Japanese government to charge a royalty, to be added to the retail price of portable digital music players like Apple's iPod.

[Opinion]

*** Save iPhoto
<http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2005/10/09/save-iphoto/>
Binary Bonsai

Apple, if you're listening: iPhoto is horribly broken.

*** Podvertising: Niche Not Reach
<http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/6923.asp>
Crystal King, iMedia Connection

If the reach isn't there, what is the allure for companies to advertise in podcasts?

*** Are iPod Add-Ons Too Expensive?
<http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/5617/>
Jeremy Horwitz, iLounge

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Web Enjoys Year Of Biggest Growth
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4325918.stm>
BBC News

The web has grown more in 2005 than it did at the height of the dotcom boom, says a study.

*** Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own iPod
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/technology/10carr.html>
David Carr, New York Times

Consider if the line between the web and print matter were erased by a device for data consumption, not data-entry -- all screen, no baggage -- that was uplinked and updated constantly: a digital player for the eyes, with an iTunes-like array of content available at a ubiquitous volume and a low, digestible price.

*** MasterCard Pursues No-Touch Retail
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1868307,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Evan Schuman, Ziff Davis Internet

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The other things in life

[Tech & Science]

*** As Polar Ice Turns To Water, Dreams Of Treasure Abound
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?ex=1286596800&en=1f4059714b781260&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Clifford Krauss, Steven Lee Myers, Andrew C. Revkin and Simon Romero, New York Times

The Arctic is undergoing nothing less than a great rush for virgin territory and natural resources worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

[Life]

*** Just Don't Do It!
<http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/051017/17sex.htm>
Katy Kelly, U.S. News

Are we teaching our kids way too much about sex? Or not nearly enough?

*** After The Nip And Tuck
<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-cosmetic10oct10,0,408371.story?coll=la-home-health>
Lisa GIll, Los Angeles Times

There's an emotional fallout with cosmetic surgery that few patients -- or their families -- expect.

*** Sorry, Did You Say Something Momentous?
<http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-williams10oct10,0,5419689.story?coll=cl-home-more-channels>
Brian Williams, Los Angeles Times

Never before have there been so many tempting incentives not to pay attention to what's important.

*** A Cubicle For You And Your Muse
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/fashion/sundaystyles/09writers.html>
Liesl Schillinger, New York Times

Hominess is part of the appeal at Paragraph; writers, after all, notoriously crave nurturing. But those who use this space have a practical reason to show up as well: to overcome the temptation to procrastinate, and to get down to the hard work of writing.

*** Americans In The Tropics
<http://www.common-place.org/vol-06/no-01/talk/>
Amy S. Greenberg, Common-place

The imperialist imagination from filibustering to reality TV.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Reports Steady Growth
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4325638.stm>
BBC News

Singapore's economy has continued to grow -- albeit more slowly than expected in the third quarter, driven by its shipping and medical industries.

*** Road Names As Markers Of History
<http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2005/yax-491.htm>
Yawningbread.org

Each naming fashion is a marker of its time. Each is like a sediment of history laid onto our ground.

*** Singapore's GDP Grows 6% On Year In Q3: Flash Estimates
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/172615/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

*** Storm Over Car Misparked
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/77217.asp>
Vinita Ramani, Today

Illegally parked Mercedes causes an hour-long traffic jam outside Empress Place.

*** Citibank's One Call To Cancel Them All
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/77168.asp>
Vinita Ramani, Today

*** Charity For The Blind: Did NCSS Act Too Soon?
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/77236.asp>
Jasmine Yin, Today

After suggestions that it should have acted earlier in the National Kidney Foundation saga, NCSS now has to put up with complaints that it has intervened too abruptly in the case of the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped.

[Opinion]

*** Let's See The Account Books, EZ-Link
<http://www.todayonline.com/articles/77229.asp>
Joyce Aw, Today

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

[Tunes]

*** Centerfold
<http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=21059>
Hayseed Dixie
<http://ia200036.eu.archive.org/2/audio/hdixie2004-12-30/hdixie2004-30-12d01t03_64kb.mp3>

*** Centerfold / PTFM
<http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=23748>
yeP!
<http://ia201141.eu.archive.org/2/audio/yep1995-11-11.flac16f/yep1995-11-11d1t09_64kb.mp3>