[MyAppleMenu] Dec 31, 2006

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The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** My Other Company Is A Start-Up
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2523878,00.html>
Andrew Stone, The Times

Many people are running a business away from their day job. It allows them to test the water before going full-time and brings in extra income.

*** How The Anti-Copyright Lobby Makes Big Business Richer
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/29/photojournalism_and_copyright/>
Sion Touhig, The Register

We're continually being told the internet empowers the individual. But speaking as an individual creative worker myself, I'd argue that all this Utopian revolution has achieved so far in my sector is to disempower individuals, strengthen the hand of multinational businesses, and decrease the pool of information available to audience. All things that the technology utopians say they wanted to avoid.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Story Of My Wife
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123001123.html>
Bob Thompson, Washington Post

Calvin Trillin brings his greatest love to life on the printed page.

*** That Blasted Year
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701734.html>
Dave Barry, Washington Post

It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor.

*** Can Google Come Out To Play?
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/fashion/31google.html>
Deborah Schoeneman, New York Times

You could be forgiven for not knowing that a satellite Google campus is growing in downtown Manhattan. There is no Google sign on the building, and it's hard to catch a glimpse of a Googler, as employees call themselves, on the street because the company gives them every reason to stay within its candy-colored walls.

*** The Graying Of Naughty
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/fashion/31porn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
Sharon Waxman, New York Times

The pornography industry, that multibillion-dollar-a-year symbol of airbrushed American carnality, is aging. The advent of viagra, the maturing of sexually aware baby boomers and overall improved health and beauty are all contributing to the graying of naughty.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** CPF Increase Possible If Outlook Stays Good: PM Lee
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/250028/1/.html>
Dominique Loh, Channel NewsAsia