[MyAppleMenu] May 14, 2006

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MyAppleMenu
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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Advertising: Less Is Much More
<http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/may2006/sb20060510_594918.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_sales+and+marketing>
Steve McKee, BusinessWeek

[Opinion]

*** Unraveling The Red Box Myth
<http://www.roughlydrafted.com/0506.redbox1.html>
Daniel Etan, RoughlyDrafted

According to proponents of the Red Box Myth, Max OS X will supposedly soon run Windows software natively, perhaps as soon as Leopard 10.5. They're wrong; here's why.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** The Enzyme That Won
<http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6911109>
The Economist

If it's cool, it's probably Web 2.0.

*** Fuzzy Maths
<http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6911096>
The Economist

In a few short years, Google has turned from a simple and popular company into a complicated and controversial one.

*** Scan This Book!
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html?ex=1305259200&en=c07443e36874dbb8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Kevin Kelly, New York Times

The universal library and its "books" will be unlike any library or books we have known. Pushing us rapidly toward that Eden of everything, and away from the paradigm of the phsical paper tome, is the hot technology of the search engine.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Flat-Pack Accounting
<http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6919139>
The Economist

Forget about the Gates Foundation. The world's biggest charity owns IKEA -- and is devoted to interior design.

*** Mark Twain's Hawaii
<http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/travel/14twain.html?ex=1305259200&en=b406caeb6648fc4c&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Lawrence Downes, New York Times

Twain spent four months in the islands in 1866, when he was 31 and workingg on becoming famous. His 25 letters from the Sandwich Islands, writtenon assignment for The Sacramento Union, are still fresh and rudely funny after almost a century and a half -- a foretaste of genius and the best travel writing about Hawaii I have ever read.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Ten In A Row For The Men In White
<http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6919244>
The Economist

The People's Action Party shows that it remains one of the world's most successful political machines.

*** James Gomez Says He Does Not Intend To Sue Minister Mentor
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/208176/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

[Opinion]

*** Bloggers Persist As Mediacorp Bullshits
<http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/05/bloggers-persist-as-mediacorp.html>
Singapore Election Watch

Once again, Mediacorp showed Singaporeans why they were deserving of the 140th spot as perscribed by Reporters Without Borders.

*** Who Is Irene Ng Kidding?
<http://singabloodypore.blogspot.com/2006/05/who-is-irene-ng-kidding.html>
Singabloodypore

*** Singapore's Success Doesn't Please Everyone
<http://english.ohmynews.com/ArticleView/article_view.asp?menu=A11100&no=291663&rel_no=1&back_url=>
Tom Pauken II, OhmyNews

If Singapore's government terrorized citizens, let crime run rampant or werak havoc against peace and harmony then people could raise a legitimate argument that Singapore must transform itself. Nevertheless, Singapore is an independent city-state not a colony of the U.S. or Canda.