[MyAppleMenu] Jul 21, 2007

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**** When 'God Machines' Go Back To Their Maker <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/19/god_machine_meets_maker/>
by Andrew Orlowski, The Register
The genius of Apple's startegy for its iPhone is to make a defensive move look like an offensive one.

**** Playing The iPhone Market <http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_6414718>
by Rachel Metz, Associated Press
To try out the online market in this overheated atmosphere, I bought an iPhone and listed it on eBay. This wannabe profiteer lost money.

**** Copyright Board Of Canada Gives Thumbs-Up To "iPod Tax" <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070720-copyright-board-of-canada-gives-thumbs-up-to-ipod-tax.html>
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
Canadians who purchase digital music players and removable memory cards should have to pay an extra tax, according to the Copyright Board of Canada. The decision stated that the proposed levy, originally suggested by the Canadian Private Copyright Collective, followed the intent of the country's Copyright Act and Parliament and therefore such a tariff could be enacted.

**** Tips For The Not-So-Creative Pro <http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/creative/2007/07/design-tips/index.php?lsrc=mwrss>
by James Dempsey, Macworld
Here are a few Creative Suite tips, some old, some new, but all worth knowing, especially if you don't live inside these applications all day.

**** Duke Resolves iPhone, Wi-Fi Outage Problems <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2161065,00.asp?kc=ZDRSS05089TX1K0001002>
by Paula Musich, eWeek
One week after discovering a glitch between Apple iPhones and its Cisco-based campus wireless network, Duke University on July 20 finally got to the bottom of the problem that caused periodic outages of the Wi-Fi network.
In a statement released this afternoon, Cisco Systems admitted that the problem was caused by a Cisco glitch.

**** Honey, They Shrunk The Power Adapter <http://www.macuser.com/hardware/honey_they_shrunk_the_power_ad_1.php?lsrc=murss>
by Dan Moren, MacUser

**** Jim Read: Evil Tease <http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/1741films/>
by Elise Malmberg, Apple

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**** Should Newspapers Become Local Blog Networks? <http://publishing2.com/2007/07/20/should-newspapers-become-local-blog-networks/>
by Scott Karp, Publishing 2.0
What's becoming clear is that blogs are now the organizing principle for newspapers' original online content.

**** The Business Of Pleasure Is Booming, Thanks To Online Communities <http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/07/sexdrive_0720>
by Wired

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Linguistic Follies <http://economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9512531>
by The Economist
The economic consequences of the rise of English.

**** What's So Friggin' Funny? <http://discovermagazine.com/2007/brain/laughter>
by Steven Johnson, Discover
Nothing&mdash;laughter is simply how we connect.

**** Dead Flowers <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/books/review/Birkerts-t.html?ex=1342756800&en=de4cb7643a46540b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Sven Birkerts, New York Times
How you respond to this extended account of bitter frustration and longing very much depends on whether you can will yourself to invest in an essentially disembodied presence.

SingaporeSurf
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**** VN Prevents Cambodia From Transporting Sand To Singapore By Boat Across VN <http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2007/06/vn-prevents-cambodia-from-transporting.html>
by Moeung TUm, Radio Free Asia
The Cambodian authority claimed that the Vietnamese authority issued an order defending Cambodian companies from transporting sand by boat to sell in Singapore across the Mekong River portion in Vietnam.

**** Foreign Students: Deception In Parliament <http://singaporeelection.blogspot.com/2007/07/foreign-students-deception-in.html>
by Singapore Election Watch
Gan Kim Yong should be brought to task and asked to apologise to parliament to prevent another recurrence. If no action is taken against Gan KY, the wrong message would be sent to ministers and political office bearers.

**** Singapore, Dubai, Hong Kong Suited For A Peak Oil World <http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5871/>
by Dan Denning, Bits Of News

**** New Twist To AWOL Complaint <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2007/7/21/columnists/insightdownsouth/18355073&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
Twenty-year-old Li Hongyi has shown an independent streak, but it is not known whether he has inherited his grandfather Lee Kuan Yew's tough-knuckle characteristics.

**** My First And Last Time At Pasta Cafe <http://rinaz.net/2007/07/mr-first-and-last-time-at-pasta-cafe/>
by Marina's Bloggariffic
For that price, we'd have a nicer and lovelier and more genuine pasta dishes at La Forketta.

**** This Month, The Christian Rightwing Finds More Villians <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-760.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
I know from many "whispers from the inside" that the government's calculation is that the Christian rightwing cannot be ignored, that is to say, they acknowledge they are now being held hostage by them. The cabinet was shocked by the ferocious, organised opposition to the casino proposals in 2004, and no longer have the guts to stan dup to the Christian religionists.

**** Should Judge In Caning Controversy Have Been Named? <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/201386.asp>
by Loh Chee Kong, Today

**** Singapore Showcases Its Local Artists <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/20/arts/jessop.php>
by Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop, Internationa Herald Tribune

>From tattoo art, graffiti art and an arts discussion session in a speed-dating format to batik and more traditional paintings, the Singapore Art Show, running Aug 2-Oct 8, aims to highlight the diversity and range of visual art in Singapore.


**** It's Good To Be A Kaypoh Nation <http://miyagi.sg/2007/07/its-good-to-be-a-kaypoh-nation/>
by My Very Own Glob
Embrace your inner /kaypoh/! You might save a life. Come to think of it, /kaypohness/ should be a civic duty.

**** Was MOE Trying To "Smoke" Us? <http://singaporepatriot.blogspot.com/2007/07/was-moe-trying-to-smoke-us.html>
by Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot
Did MOE deliberately try to mislead Singaporeans or was it an honest mistake on the part of their officers?

**** About The Legal Service Commission Changes <http://singaporepatriot.blogspot.com/2007/07/about-legal-service-commission-changes.html>
by Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot
Will not the Attorney General, chairman of the PSC and the two PSC nominees be enough to reflect the government's view on key decisions by the Legal Service Commission?

**** On Banging Walls <http://xenoboysg.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-banging-walls.html>
by A Xeno Boy In Sg
This is what happens when we adhere to the ruling regime's lexical rules and OB markers. This is what happens when we buy into this illusion that we can have perfectly rational and logical political discourse of difference in Singapore. This is what happens when we are ushered into the well-walled conduits laid down by the ruling regime governing political discourse. You will be shredded.

**** How Many Foreign Students Enrolled In MIT? <http://frankcomment.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-many-foreign-students-are-enrolled.html>
by Frankly Speaking
I don't know where Pearl Forss of Channel NewsAsia got her numbers from, but according to Wikipedia, only 9.2% of the undergraduate student population are foreigners. The figure rises to 39.3% for graudate studies. It is clearly /under 40%/ no matter how you count.

**** We Owe Library $5M In Fines <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,136414,00.html?>
by Veena Bharwani, New Paper
The one place in Singapore where you can be fined and get away with it appears to be the public library.

**** School Says Students Not Punishd For Not Turning Up In Costumes <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/289514/1/.html>
by Lin Yanqin, Today
Some 30 to 40 of <students at Jurong West Secondary>, who did not have costumes, were taken out of the activities and made to stand outside the school office for one-and-a-half hours, said a parent who called the MediaCorp Hotline.
"Half my class didn't even turn up because they couldn't find costumes," said a Secondary 3 students who declined to be named. "We were told we had to come in costumes or we might be punished.
School principal Oliver Jeeva Balasingam told TODAY that Jurong West Secondary did not punish any pupils for not wearning costumes. "Only 30 plus students missed the celebrations, out of about 1,200 students. I don't think that's excluding a lt of people; it's only a minority."
/What the heck? "It's only a minority"? This is exactly the kind of discrimination and intorlence that we should be thinking about preciesly on Racial Harmony day. Why is this kind of behavior even permitted?/