[MyAppleMenu] Mar 10, 2013

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**** Old Farmer’s Almanac Launches Monthly Magazine For iPad ****
<http://jg-tc.com/entertainment/old-farmer-s-almanac-launches-monthly-magazine-for-ipad/article_82041808-877f-11e2-8a8b-0019bb2963f4.html>
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier



**** Taxpayers Helped Apple, but Apple Won't Help Them ****
<http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/03/taxpayers_helped_apple_but_app.html>
Mariana Mazzucato, Harvard Business Review


> Clearly, the role of government is not to run commercial enterprises, but to spark innovation in strategic areas. But given ever-tighter public budgets, unless an innovation fund can be regularly replenished with some returns from the successes, innovation itself is under threat.



**** How To Enable And Use Dictation In Mac OS X Mountain Lion ****
<http://www.iclarified.com/28063/how-to-enable-and-use-dictation-in-mac-os-x-mountain-lion>
IClarified



**** Mac Backup Guru For OS X Review ****
<http://www.technologytell.com/apple/113331/mac-backup-guru-for-os-x-review/>
Charles Moore, TechnologyTell






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**** A Point Of View: Mary, Queen Of Maths ****
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21713163>
Lisa Jardine, BBC


> Maths genius Mary Cartwright was a modest soul and one of the early founders of chaos theory. It's time we recognised her massive contribution.



**** A Public Apology For My Sofa ****
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/a-public-apology-for-my-sofa.html?ref=magazine&_r=0>
Dave Bry, New York Times


> Dear Residents of 208 East 7th Street: Sorry for leaving that couch outside our door on the fourth-floor stairwell for two weeks.



**** The Man Who Demolished Shakespeare's House ****
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21587468>
Denise Winterman, BBC


> Britain hasn't always been in love with its heritage. It took some shocking acts of destruction, and some very near misses, to help shape the way it is now treasured and protected.



**** Homunculism ****
<http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/21/homunculism/?pagination=falser>
Colin McGinn, The New York Review Of Books


> And since we can duplicate these mechanisms in a machine, there is nothing to prevent us from creating an artificial mind—we just need to install the right pattern recognizers (which Kurzweil can manufacture for a price). The “secret of thought” is therefore mechanical pattern recognition, with hierarchical structure and suitable weightings for constituent features. All is revealed!