Apple posted Data Detectors v1.02. The detectors, an AppleScript project, currently available are Internet Addresses and

Apple posted Data Detectors v1.02. The detectors, an AppleScript project, currently available are Internet Addresses and U.S. Geography. Currency detectors will be available soon according to Apple's site. The Internet Detectors have been available for some time. The Geography Detectors are new and they provide maps and zip codes for cities in selected text.

Regarding the Justice Department's suit against Microsoft wherein Judge Jackson appointed a special master to advise him, Dana Baggett writes "...I was reading the Dec. 22 Baltimore Sun. It ran an AP story datelined Boston all about Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig being appointed a Special Master in the Microsoft case. The article says he "...is enough of a computer nerd to understand the Internet and enough of an academic to interpret it for others." (Here's the best part.) "Those who know Lessig's work warned against trying to read into his background - or his recent switch to Apple Macintosh computers - for clues about his attitude towards Microsoft..."