[MyAppleMenu] Jan 27, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Fog Creek Copilot, For All Your Remote Troubleshooting Needs
<http://www.macuser.com/internet/fog_creek_copilot_for_all_your.php?lsrc=murss>
Dan Moren, MacUser

Version 2.0 adds support for the Mac, and drops the price.

[Opinion]

*** My MacBook Pro Experience - Day 16
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=237>
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet

One thing that having the Mac for sixteen days has shown me is that black and white thinking about operating systems is, at best, idealistic.

*** Wharton Prof Responds: Our Disagreement Is Design V. Marketing
<http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/wharton_prof_re.html>
Pete Mortensen, Wired News

Almost a decade after the publication of "The Innovator's Dilemma," the marketing universe still hasn't learned to diagnose a disruptive product when it shows up!

The Tomorrow Weblog
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Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** China Censorship Damaged Us, Google Founders Admit
<http://business.guardian.co.uk/davos2007/story/0,,1999994,00.html>
Jane Martinson, The Guardian

Sergey Brin said the compnay had suffered because of the damage to its reputation in the US and Europe.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Life]

*** An Oenophile And His Money: Is Any Bottle Of Wine Worth $700?
<http://www.slate.com/id/2158319/fr/rss/>
Mike Steinberger, Slate

This is a story about a bottle of wine. A very expensive but also very delicious bottle of wine -- a wine that so captivated me when I first tasted it that I immediately resolved to taste it again. What followed was an almost two-year odyssey that tested the limits of my resourcefulness and perhaps also expressed the warping effect that wine has had on my brain.

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[Opinion]

*** Meannie Friends?
<http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2007/01/meannie-friends.html>
Singapore Life And Times

Will Singapore invent sand now that it is in short supply? Well, if its history of the last 40 years is anything to go by, it probably will.

*** The Other Side Of Singapore
<http://rising.blackstar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=79&Itemid=99999999>
Michael Coyne, Black Star Rising

I braced myself for what might await me within, narrowly avoiding being trampled by the small posse of young females hurriedly exiting as I was hovering in the doorway.

*** Perfoming Law
<http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-707.htm>
Yawningbread.org

We may be worse than drug lords. They sacrifice lives because they are calculative. We? We sacrifice them because we are mindless and unthinking.

*** Examine The Old Sacred Cow Of Defence Spending
<http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=7532758920e39010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:08e106068df50110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Quek Soo Beng, Straits Times

If war is neither imminent nor anywhere near imminent, there should be room to adjust our perennially high, and hence expensive, state of readiness for war, to generate savings and avoid tax increases.

[Entertainment]

*** Viva VicoCity!
<http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2007/1/27/lifetravel/16534807&sec=lifetravel>
Kee Hua Chee, The Star

VivoCity, Singapore's latest and largest mall at 1.5 million sq ft, is likely to remain the 'Most Humungous Mall' on the island for at least a decade, but Malaysians may not be all that impressed.