[MyAppleMenu] Sep 4, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Crash Toll Shows iPod Fans Riding For A Fall
<http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1887112005>
Tom Martin, Scotland On Sunday

Dozens of motorists and cyclists are causing accidents as a result of being plugged into their iPod music players while using the roads, traffic safety experts have warned.

[Opinion]

*** Mac Makes A Difference
<http://strausser.freehosting123.com/?p=46>
G-LO-SS

Mac gives me a new life and more creativity.

[Review]

*** Add-On Software Can Enhance Macintosh's Disk-Burning Ability
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA090405.2R.themacguy.1b9ed646.html>
Paul Vaughn, San Antonio Express-News

Toast 7 is packed with new features that you will wonder how you ever managed without.

[Wintel]

*** Microsoft Links With Orange In iPod Wars
<http://www.thebusinessonline.com/Stories.aspx?StoryID=6CC77E23-3909-4CAC-A347-7766E9647EF0&SectionID=F3B76EF0-7991-4389-B72E-D07EB5AA1CEE>
Tony Glover, The Business

The Business has learnted that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has persuaded Orange to develop a mobile phone, the SPV C550, which will double as a Microsoft music player.

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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Why Technology Misses The Masses
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4208658.stm>
BBC News

Technology is an area where there is always plenty of scope to come unstuck.

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The other things in life

[World]

*** United States Of Shame
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html>
Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Stuff happens. And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens.

[Life]

*** The City That Will Be
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/09/04/the_city_that_will_be/>
Drake Bennett, Boston Globe

Thirty years ago, in their book "3000 Years of Urban Growth," the historians Tertius Chandler and Gerald Fox calculated that of all the cities that had been flooded, burned, sacked, leveled by earthquek, buried in lava, or in some way or antoher destroyed worldwide between 1100 and 1800, only a few dozen had been permanently abandoned. Cities, in other words, tend to get rebuilt no matter what.

*** Literary Letters, Lost In Cyberspace
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/books/review/04DONADIO.html>
Rachel Donadio, New York Times

Today, a new challenge awaits literary biographers and cultural historians: e-mail. The problem isn't that writers and their editors are corresponding less, it's that they're corresponding infinitely more -- but not always saving their e-mail messages.

*** Left Behind
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083001035.html>
Lynn Ermann, Washington Post

She was only 9 when the woman who'd abandoned her at birth was murdered. Now she's finally ready to seek the truth about her mother's tortured life and brutal death.

*** The Shiver: What She Never Knew...
<http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/04/CMGKVE8N2K1.DTL>
Cy Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle

When you start to work in a profession, such as law, you don't know what you're doing. You hope someone will show you the way, or there will be a book with the title, "Do This." You stumble your way through, by intuition, by luck and by skill.

*** Giving Them What They Want
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/magazine/04MOONVES.html>
Lynn Hirschberg, New York Times

After three decades in the TV business, Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS and hte person most responsible for taking the network from last place to first in the ratings, has figured out a few things about what people want to see when they turn on their televisions.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore To Host International Flower And Garden Show Next Year
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/166420/1/.html>
Rita Zahara, Channel NewsAsia

[Opinion]

*** Two PR Fiascos
<http://lzydata.djourne.net/?p=2352>
l.z.y./Data

*** Singapore's Official Futurity
<http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/sterling/index.blog?entry_id=1211240>
Bruce Sterling, Wired News

The Singapore's power-elite are not just a spin machine. They posses competence.