[MyAppleMenu] Dec 30, 2013

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*** Apple Signage Says New Flagship Brisbane, Australia Store Opening Soon ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/29/apple-signage-says-new-flagship-brisbane-australia-store-opening-soon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29>
Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac



*** The Products Apple Doesn’t Have Time To Improve ***
<http://www.marco.org/2013/12/29/apple-doesnt-have-time>
Marco Arment


> I’d be perfectly happy if Apple never made a TV or a watch or a unicorn, and instead devoted the next five years to polishing the software and services for their existing product lines.




*** Why MacPaint's Original Canvas Was 416 Pixels Wide ***
<http://www.looksgoodworkswell.com/elegance-of-macpaint-code/>
Bill Scott, Looks Good, Works Well


> The drawing area is evenly divisible by 13 long words (13x32=416). This is exactly the number of registers that were available in the loop above for the MOVEM.L operation (It appears it could have used 14 registers, but I am guessing the extra 32 pixels would have made the drawing area more cramped by reducing the gray whitespace.)




*** Google Launches New Google+ Auto-backup Utility For Mac With Latest Picasa Update ***
<http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/29/google-launches-new-google-auto-backup-utility-for-mac-with-latest-picasa-update/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29>
Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac



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*** Made In The U.S.A. ***
<http://harvardmagazine.com/2014/01/made-in-the-u-s-a>
Adam Kirsch, Harvard Magazine


> Almost as soon as the concept of the Great American Novel was invented, in the nation-building years after the Civil War, Buell finds it being mocked, noting that one observer dryly put it into the same category as “other great American things such as the great American sewing-machine, the great American public school, and the great American sleeping-car.” It was enough of a cliché by 1880 for Henry James to refer to it with the acronym “GAN,” which Buell employs throughout his book.

> Yet Buell warns us against taking all this dismissal at face value: “critical pissiness suggests the persistence of some sort of hydrant,” as he puts it. Even today, in our endlessly self-conscious literary era, novelists are still writing candidates for the GAN. What else are Jonathan Franzen’s <i>Freedom</i>, or Philip Roth’s <i>American Pastoral</i>, or Don DeLillo’s <i>Underworld</i>, if not attempts to capture the essence of American modernity between two covers?




*** First Husband ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2014/01/06/140106fi_fiction_nelson>
Antonya Nelson, New Yorker



*** The Birds ***
<http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/01/06/140106crbo_books_rosen>
Jonathan Rosen, New Yorker


> Why the passenger pigeon became extinct.




*** Look Back With Angst ***
<http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21591853-century-there-are-uncomfortable-parallels-era-led-outbreak>
The Economist


> The most troubling similarity between 1914 and now is complacency. Businesspeople today are like businesspeople then: too busy making money to notice the serpents flickering at the bottom of their trading screens. Politicians are playing with nationalism just as they did 100 years ago. China’s leaders whip up Japanophobia, using it as cover for economic reforms, while Shinzo Abe stirs Japanese nationalism for similar reasons. India may next year elect Narendra Modi, a Hindu nationalist who refuses to atone for a pogrom against Muslims in the state he runs and who would have his finger on the button of a potential nuclear conflict with his Muslim neighbours in Pakistan. Vladimir Putin has been content to watch Syria rip itself apart. And the European Union, which came together in reaction to the bloodshed of the 20th century, is looking more fractious and riven by incipient nationalism than at any point since its formation.




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