[MyAppleMenu] Sep 19, 2005

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** E-Tailers Get Apple Nastygrams
<http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,68883,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5>
Jonny Evans, Wired News

Apple is ordering several online iPod accessory vendors to stop using the world "iPod" in their names or URLs.

*** My iPod For A Random Playlist
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68893,00.html?tw=rss.TOP>
Dan Goodin, Wired News

Mathematical randomness often contradicts our intuitive expectations of randomness. A stratified playlist might select songs randomly but would be smart enough to throw out choices that, say, would repeat a band within 10 songs. It's nice to know engineers are working on the problem.

*** Playing On The 'Ooh' Factor
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/19/BUGBPEO73N1.DTL>
Benny Evangelista, San Francisco Chronicle

*** Looks Like The New iPod's A Hit
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2005-09-18-nano-hit_x.htm>
Jefferson Graham, USA Today

So far, it looks like Apple has another hit on its hands -- and another opportunity to crush competitors.

[Opinion]

*** Impressed
<http://noisymime.org/blog/?p=15>
No More Pink Walls

I know this is what a modern operating system should do, but I was blown away by the fact that this actually did it.

*** Will, Part 1: Why Switch?
<http://www.macmove.com/mm/2005/09/18/will-part-i-why-switch/>
MacMove

*** Apple Is Small, Right?
<http://www.creationrobot.com/?p=1060>
Creation Robot

Apple is huge and growing fast.

[Wintel]

*** MS: Same Old, Same Old (With Charts!)
<http://www.backupbrain.com/2005_09_18_archive.html#a004718>
Dori Smith, Backup Brain

Microsoft's problems are because they are satisfied with their current situation, and their current situation sucks.

*** Will Windows Upgrade Hand Power To Big Media?
<http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/09/wo/wo_091905patrizio.asp?trk=top>
Andy Patrizio, MIT Technology Review

Microsoft's success to the Windows XP operating system, known as Windows Vista, will come with new technologies meant to provide a scure digital media environment. The idea is to make it easier to download HDTV-quality video to your desktop or laptop. But, in the process, critics fear you will lose something: the freedom to use whatever hardware or software you want.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Intelligence In The Internet Age
<http://news.com.com/Intelligence+in+the+Internet+age/2100-11395_3-5869719.html?part=rss&tag=5869719&subj=news>
Stefannie Olsen, CNET News.com

It's a question older than the Parthenon: Do new innovations and technologies make us more intelligent?

*** Talking In The Dark
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18idea.html>
Clive Thompson, New York Times

Disaster-preparedness experts and high-tech inventors are developing the idea of blanketing cities with what they call a "WiFi mesh."

*** Opening The Potential Of OpenOffice.org
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7834>
Jono Bacon, O'Reilly Network

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The other things in life

[World]

*** For Chinese Media Baron, Party Line Is A Tightrope
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801597.html?nav=rss_technology>
Philip P. Pan, Washington Post

Liu Changle's conflicting roles -- as a beneficiary of party rule and a sponsor of journalism that undermines it -- highlight a critical question about China's future: Will the country's new elite act as an obstacle to democratic reform or an advocate of it?

[Tech & Science]

*** Nature's Design Workshop
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9377826/site/newsweek/>
Anne Underwood, Newsweek

Engineers turn to biology for inspiration.

[Life]

*** Yoga, Y'all
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/magazine/18funny_humor.html>
Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times

While I had had my privileged moment of transcendence in India, this is where they found theirs -- on a one-hour lunch break with Julie McCoy.

*** For Crying Out Loud
<http://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-funerals38sep18,1,6182640.story?coll=la-headlines-magazine>
Martin Miller, Los Angeles Times

There will be no flowers. No food. No songs. It's his funeral, for God's sake.

*** Can Mickey Find His Mojo?
<http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1106334,00.html>
Richard Corliss, Time

Disney is trying to kick its animation division back to life by (finally) embracing the computer.

*** Manga For Girls
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/books/review/18glazer.html>
Sarah Glazer, New York Times

Among the best-selling shojo are stories that involve cross-dressing boys and characters who magically change sex, brother-sister romances and teenage girls falling in love with 10-year-old boys. Then there's a whole subgenre known as shonen ai, or boy's love, which usually features romances between two impossibly pretty young men.

*** Dot. Dot. Dot.
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/09/18/dot_dot_dot/>
Emily Sweeney, Boston Globe

Before there was Boston, there was Dorchester.

*** In Praise Of The Novel
<http://www.signandsight.com/features/361.html>
Carlos Fuentes, Sign And Sight

On Cervantes, Kafka, and the saving grace of literature.

*** Who Made Nancy Drew?
<http://www.salon.com/books/review/2005/09/19/rehak/index.html>
Emily Biuso, Salon

Melanie Rehak investigatges the origins of the world-famous girl sleuth and discovers two remarkable, revolutionary women.

*** You've Got Literature
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-bk-morrison18sep18,1,2719337.story?coll=la-headlines-technology>
Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times

Who could have known that the most innovative postmodernist prose of our age would be spam?

*** War Of The Words
<http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,16488,1572550,00.html>
Tim Adams, The Observer

Few in publishing inspire more fear than the head buyer of Waterstone's. Which is bad news for lowers of literature -- or even old-fashioned browsers.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Singapore Keeps 3.5%-4.5% Full-Year Economic Growth Forecast
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/169075/1/.html>
Chua Chin Chye, Channel NewsAsia

*** Singapore To Set Rules For Harrah's, Wynn, Other Casino Bidders
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a.HVokK27khc&refer=asia>
Bloomberg

[Technology]

*** Who's Afraid Of Anti-Piracy Laws?
<http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news001_20050919.html>
Alvin Lai, Straits Times

Despite the arrests of three young men, many continue to download music illegally in the belief that they won't get caught.

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Life is random. More tunes, less talk.

[Tunes]

*** Come To The Circus
<http://circuscontraption.com/music.html>
Circus Contraption
<http://circuscontraption.com/audio/come2circus.mp3>