[MyAppleMenu] Sep 3, 2006

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Apple's Sound Strategy For The iPod
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14625739/>
Richard Waters, Financial Times

More than three years after hte music companies handed Steve Jobs the keys to the kingdom by releasing their catalogues to him in digital form, Apple's dominant position in the digital music business looks secure.

*** Taking A Bite Of Apple
<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8209-2340252,00.html>
Paul Durman and Dominic Rushe, The Times

It's crunch time for Apple as its competitors threaten to ease into the download music market.

[Opinion]

*** Bob Dylan And iTunes Sell Un-Rippable Music
<http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/03/bob_dylan_and_itunes.html>
Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

If you buy the packaged good, you get the audio and the videos for the final four songs, if you buy the iTunes Store version, you only get the un-burnable videos for them.

*** Battery Replacement: Apple Vs Dell
<http://nosheep.net/story/battery-replacement-apple-vs-dell/>
No Sheep

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Voice Recognition Goes Wireless
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2011592,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594>
Jim Finkle, Reuters

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The other things in life

[World]

*** The World According To China
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/magazine/03ambassador.html>
James Traub, New York Times

It is a truism that the Security Council can function only insofar as the United States lets it. The adage may soon be applied to China as well.

[Life]

*** Anchors Awry
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2006/09/03/anchors_awry/>
Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe

Nowadays, it's hard to tell our local newscasters apart.

*** New York Newbie
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/nyregion/thecity/03labo.html>
David McAnich, New York Times

No other city awes newcomers with an equally intoxicating mixture of indifference and titillation, and no other city has elevated the mere act of arriving to the status of literary and cinematic cliche.

*** A Christian Shrine In A Muslim Land
<http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/travel/03explorer.html>
Scott Spencer, New York Times

Casual readers of Greek mythology are often surprised to learn that if you want to visit what is left of Troy, you have to travel to Turkey. And those familiar with Christianity might also be surprised to learn that millions of people believe that in her final years the Virgin Mary also found her home in Turkey, a couple of hundred miles south of Troy, near the ancient city of Ephesus.

*** InCities Across The United States, It's Raining Concert Halls
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/arts/music/03waki.html?ei=5088&en=c8a7614504f71dcc&ex=1314936000&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1157256901-kT0Y4jxBeAbk8h/wR50w1w>
Daniel J. Wakin, New York Times

The stories behind these buildings show the wide array of hopes that a community invests in a new performing space, even at a time when many fret that classical music is becoming less relevant.

[Expressions]

*** Hacienda Del Sol
<http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-calstory36sep03,1,579819.story?coll=la-headlines-west>
Dorothy Pier, Los Angeles Times

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Asia's Rise Good For Singapore
<http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=i&id=89520>
Andy Mukherjee, Bloomberg

The middleman of southern Asian is alive, and doing quite well.

*** External Forces Not Allowed To Affect ASEAN's Harmony: Singapore FM
<http://english.people.com.cn/200609/04/eng20060904_299167.html>
Xinhua

Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo warned Saturday that Southeast Asia is affected by developments in other parts of the world, but external forces are not allowed to affect the general harmony that exists in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

*** Chinese Syllabus Revamp Shows Positive Results, Says Tharman
<http://straitstimes.asiaone.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:69092d609ef6d010VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Sarah Ng, Straits Times

[Opinion]

*** In The City
<http://matthewslaats.blogspot.com/2006/09/in-city_03.html>
Matthew Slaats

It is an exciting time for the arts in Singapore. So much is taking place.

*** Taxi Drivers And Teachers
<http://singapore-teacher.blogspot.com/2006/09/taxi-drivers-and-teachers.html>
A Singapore Teacher's Life

I love teaching.

*** No Laughing Matter
<http://commentarysingapore.blogspot.com/2006/09/no-laughing-matter.html>
Mr Wang Bakes Good Karma

*** Violence Does Not Equal Power Nor Can It Be Transformed Into Power
<http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2006/09/violence-does-not-equal-power-nor-can.html>
Singapore Election Watch

*** Why Do We Have So Many Flag Days In Singapore?
<http://www.ourlifexp.com/why-do-we-have-so-many-flag-days-in-singapore.htm>
ourlifexp.com

*** Stand Up For Singapore... Who? Me?
<http://aftermidnite.wordpress.com/2006/09/03/stand-up-for-singaporewho-me/>
After Midnite Series

How can the 'other half' embrace the same sense o fbelonging when Stand Up plays? How do we continue to 'pledge ourselves as one united people'?