[MyAppleMenu] Jul 29, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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**** The Crazy! The Crazy <http://www.indigirl.com/blog/?p=745>
by indigirl
I love the Macintosh. It's stable, pretty, easy to use, powerful (UNIX os baby!), compatible with both my non-computer-literate family and my software engineering origins, and has proven itself time and time again to be equal or better than the Microsoft equivalent.

**** iPhone Making Calls On Australia's Telstra <http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/07/28/iphone.on.telstra/>
by MacNN
Representing one of the most significant milestones in the race to completely unlock the iPhone, a user has been able to successfully register the device with and make calls on Australia's Telstra network.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** The Real Transformers <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/29/magazine/29robots-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
by Robin Maranz Henig, New York Times
Today's humanoids are not the sophisticated machines we might have expected by now, which just shows how complicated a task it was that scientists embarked on 15 years ago when they began working on a robot that could think. But these early incarnations of sociable robots are also much more than meets the eye.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Adam In Wonderland <http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/travel/0,,2136860,00.html>
by Rachel Cooke, The Guardian
After five years in Paris, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik returns to the Big Apple with Through the Children's Gate and falls in love all over again.

**** Anatomy Of An Order <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2007/07/29/anatomy_of_an_order/>
by Michael Blanding, Boston Globe
The service of one meal, from cocktail to digestif, is an event that's both chaotic and highly synchronized.

**** Cleavage &amp; The Clinton Campaign Chest <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702369.html?nav=most_emailed>
by Howard Kurtz, Washington Post
A journalistic assessment of Hillary Clinton's cleavage became the most improbable presidnetial campaign controversy yet.

SingaporeSurf
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**** The Bigger Ferris Wheels Get, The More Cash Flows <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/business/28wheels.html?ex=1343361600&en=ba21d0d4601d3187&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink>
by Douglas Heingartner, New York Times

**** Happy Birthday Singapore <http://nataliexoxo.wordpress.com/2007/07/29/happy-birthday-singapore/>
by Natalie Xoxo
Well I'll let the pictures do the talking.

**** Lodging Shortage Leaves Tourists In Red-Light Areas, Malaysia <http://nationmultimedia.com/worldhotnews/read.php?newsid=30042892>
by DPA
An acute shortage of hotel rooms in Singapore has led travel agents to seek lodging in red-light districts or even outside the city-state in the nearby Indonesian island of Batam or in southern Malaysia, a published survey showed Sunday.

**** Dirty Little Secret In Our Golden Period... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2007/07/dirty-little-secret-in-our-golden.html>
by Diary Of A Singapore Mind
In other countries, the top leaders are subjected to a high level competition and low income workers are protected with safety nets. In Singapore elite leaders are protected from competition and our low income workers exposed to intense competition.

**** Credit Cards For The Zero Income Earners <http://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.com/2007/07/credit-cards-for-zero-income-earners.html>
by Mr Wang Says So
In my opinion, this new Citibank initiative is at least partly due to the recent decision by NETS to approimately triple its administrative fees for retailers.