[MyAppleMenu] Dec 31, 2012

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**** DVD-less Snow Leopard Installation On Older Mac ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/2023548/dvd-less-snow-leopard-installation-on-older-mac.html>
Christopher Breen, Macworld



**** Just In Time For New Year's, RunKeeper Upgraded To 3.0 ****
<http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/31/just-in-time-for-new-years-runkeeper-upgraded-to-3-0/>
Steven Sande, TUAW



**** “The Tinkerers”: How Corporations Kill Creativity ****
<http://www.salon.com/2012/12/30/the_tinkerers_how_corporations_kill_creativity/>
Alec Foege, Salon


> Where do we draw the line between tinkerers and hackers? What role does tinkering play in contemporary society? How did tinkerers traditionally influence American industry and society? Do we still have what it takes as a nation of tinkerers to excel in the global economy?

> I believe the answers to these questions lie somewhere in the tension between corporate discipline and individual ingenuity.






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**** The Death Of The American Shopping Mall ****
<http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/12/death-american-shopping-mall/4252/>
Jeff Jordan, The Atlantic Cities


> Rapidly declining demand for real estate amid growing supply is a recipe for financial disaster.



**** Exit Lines ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30/fashion/finding-the-words-or-not-to-say-goodbye.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp&&pagewanted=all>
Bruce Feiler, New York Times


> My father spoke to his college roommate every day for 50 years. Though the two lived in different states, 800 miles apart, they were business partners, sounding boards and friends. Then one day my father called and his friend wasn’t there. He had died the night before of a terminal illness, which he had never told my father about. The two never said goodbye.



**** Diarykeeping Is An Exceptional And Heroic Act ****
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/30/diaries-new-year-january-writing?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Joe Moran, The Guardian


> But to write a diary for any extended period is an exceptional and eccentric act. If historians wanted to relate a truly representative history through diaries, they would have to include the vast, forgotten majority that do not see January out. It would be an eternal winter in this alternative history, populated by a tribe of initially loquacious people who suddenly become monosyllabic and then lapse irrevocably into silence.