What's the word? New iBook.
What’s the word? New iBook.
What’s the word? New iBook.
45 minutes until Apple’s just-announced, invite-only “press event” (promising “exciting announcements,” of course). Everybody expects a new iBook, since the old ones have disappeared from retail channels & the Apple Store alike, but beyond that it’s anybody’s guess. ZDNet rounds up the rumors that seem grounded in reality, and if that’s not enough reading for you then keep an eye on MacSurfer for the latest headlines from the best of the Mac news sites.
I’d really love to know who gets invited to these things – I wonder how Apple treats sites like MacCentral and Macintouch which have all but replaced the mainstream media as the papers of record – so to speak – in terms of Apple news.
"I still wish we had been able to buy [Palm]," he says. Okay, then, how about making a run at Handspring, a maker of Palm-compatible handheld computers? Or co-branding with a maker of portable MP3 players or digital cameras or camcorders? After all, wouldn't Jobs like to have Apple profit more broadly and directly from this new digital lifestyle? And wouldn't that strategy work best if Apple's own stores were stocked with a wide array of Apple-branded digital gadgets? "I don't know what you're talking about," Jobs replies, looking at the ceiling. Then he smiles and changes the subject.Fortune.com - Steve Jobs: The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kindgom (What a lousy headline.)
"He's Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney."Vice presidential advisor Mary Matalin on vice presidential aide Irv "Scooter" Lewis Libby. Via the inestimable World New York.
FTAA Diary is a 48-page zine (available for download in pdf format) chronicling the experiences of folks who protested in Quebec. Illustrated with powerful black and white photos, the narratives personalize the events like no journalism could hope to.
The Guardian Weblog is carrying a special May Day edition offering “analysis from the corporate and alternative media around the web” on expected May 1 “anti-capitalist” protests and on the broader protest movement. Meanwhile, across town… Apple is expected to announce everything from world peace to OS X on X86 at the May 1 “Apple event”, so keep your eyes on randomWalks (or any of a dozen better Mac news sources) to see what the big deal was.
Dr. Menlo - best Quebec/FTAA coverage.
Romenesko, it should be considered, is a group blog disguised as a one-man blog. He is considered an important meta-media entity by journalists, so they send him tips; plus, he is paid to thoroughly read all the periodicals like the NYT that we all depend on blogs to cull through for us. Not to diminish what he does in any way; just be aware that it's what can be done with underwriting and sources.MetaTalk: dhartung on obscurestore.com.
I've spent most of my life in a town which owes its existence to an earlier incarnation of capitalism. The main square in Middlesbrough is a case in point: on the one side is a public library, endowed by Andrew Carnegie; alongside it are statues of Bolckow and Vaughan, the two ironmasters who brought industry and prosperity to the town in the late 1800s. They were entrepreneurs first, not philanthropists, but they invested in their workforce. I can't imagine there are many places in SE Asia graced by Nike subcontractors that will erect statues of Phil Knight.Pooh-pooh Metafilter though you may, I'll wager they've got the most illuminating discussion about globalization the English-speaking Internet has yet seen going on over there. It starts to get really good right around here but feel free to hit that 'home' key on your keyboard. Update: The saga continues.
Steve-o’s Grand Adventure includes an account of sneaking into Hobbiton USA complete with pictures.
George Will should rent a Nissan Pathfinder and remove the bulb from the rear tail light. The next step would be to install a hidden video camera in the rear seat. Then he and a black friend should take turns driving the vehicle around the D.C. area. Afterward, Will can veiw the results and write a column on whether or not he would mind trading places with his black friend.The Washington Post published this great letter (quoted above) in response to a George "Jackass" Will column.
Targeting China as the next Evil Empire has been an evolutionary process in the United States. The new Bush administration apparently plans to talk and act tough toward China. That isn't going to make life any easier for me and other Chinese Americans. Some Americans appear not to be able to distinguish between Chinese Americans and Chinese from China. We all look alike, I guess.San Francisco Chronicle: A Great Wall of Unease -- William Wong observes the recent rise of anti-Chinese sentiment in the US with alarm.
XML Resume Library or, How to Write a Resume for the 21st Century (featuring an XML DTD and 3 XSL transformations).
Of note: Andrew Friedman for Feed on the intersection of drug laws, the census, and the prison industry with an eye on race and class.
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shinesI recently came across this interesting history of "In The Pines", a traditional folk song most famously recorded by Nirvana for MTV Unplugged. Memo to self: collect various versions of the song off of Napster et al.
And we shiver when the cold wind blows.
Public Textures is a collection of photographs of scenes, surfaces, and objects featuring rich textures. (What else?) The photos are in the public domain so have at it.
She's reading a book on gender theory right now. She thinks it's fascinating and kind of funny.Washington Post: Wonder Woman's Powers -- Phil Jiminez, writer and illustrator of Wonder Woman for DC Comics, has given the Amazon heroine an inner life. But whence came that golden lasso of truth? Believe it or not, the head (belonging to psychologist William Marston) from which sprang forth a fully-formed Wonder Woman also conceived of the first polygraph.
Ghost World the movie website (via linkmachineego, which covers comics and sites that cover comics lots better than we do).
Using PHP and MySQL as a Weblog [sic]
How to manage your site with Blogger, PHP, and XML
I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger, but I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, and the shame is ours, not theirs, and we should pay for it.About.com: Mark Twain's Reparations for Slavery
Inmate rape has such an established place in the mythology of prison that references to confinement often call forth jokes about sexual assault. But while rape is accepted as a fact of prison life, the subject has received little serious attention and legal remedies are rare. Few prison rapists are ever prosecuted, and most prisons provide little counseling or medical attention for rape victims, or help in preventing such attacks.New York Times: Little Sympathy -- I don't know what this does for recidivism, but it doesn't sound like rehabilitation to me. What's a prison activist to do?
If Italo Calvino had a website, it would be The Invisible Library, “a collection of books that only appear in other books.”
Cincinnati Riots: