Wednesdays, The New Wednesdays

Vote no on C -- stop Wednesday's power grab! Today: Who knew they had events at the Apple store downtown? We picked up a flyer when we were (unsuccessfully) trying to get our iPod fixed. Today at 4, Todd Corleto demonstrates two-factor authentication with CRYPTOCard, and for those of you who still can't figure out how to use iTunes, there's a workshop about it at 5. The Apple Store's at One Stockton Street.

Thursday: New Langton Arts hosts a performance reading tonight at 8 p.m., featuring Amanda Davidson's cyberspace war games narrative and postmodern writer Robert Gluck, performing a reading with operatic bass singer Anthony Russell. $8, 1246 Folsom (between 8th and 9th Streets).

and Friday: We're never going to read Ulysses. Maybe we'll fare better if we sit through it -- the Mechanics' Institute holds its Fifth Annual Bloomsday Ulysses reading party, with local actors, audience readings, and the "special Bloomsday menu." Say yes and yes and yes and yes to that! Doors at 6:30, performances and readings start at 7:30 on the third floor of the library. The Institute is at 57 Post Street, and the party's $7 for nonmembers.