[MyAppleMenu] Aug 27, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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**** The iPhone And The Technology Thieves <http://www.nysun.com/article/61318>
by Harold Furchtgott-Roth, New York Sun
It seems many reporters believe that they, not Apple, knew what type of contract Apple should have had.

**** Why Apple Will Have To Support Flash On The iPhone <http://riactant.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/why-apple-will-have-to-support-flash-on-the-iphone-sooner-than-later/>
by The General Theory Of RIAtivity
Can anyone picture a market where there are Windows Mobile phones which support Microosft Silverlight for delivery of rich content while Apple iPhone users can't view either Flash /or/ Silverlight content?
/Actually, I tend to think that Apple's decision not to support Flash in iPhone is a deliberate strategy, not just because they are running late or because current Flash is too buggy. Don't discount QuickTime, yet./

**** iPhone Hacks - What Would 1975 Jobs/Wozniak Do? <http://www.9to5mac.com/steve-jobs-hacks-phones-234556455>
by 9 to 5 Mac

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** In Online World, Pocket Change Is Not Easily Spent <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/technology/27micro.html?ex=1345867200&en=0972324c2cc954c1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Dan Mitchell, New York Times
Amid the disdain, and without many people noticing, micropayments hav earrived &mdash; just not in the way they were originally envisioned.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** A Man In The Kitchen <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/03/070903fa_fact_antrim>
by Donald Antrim, New Yorker
When I was a boy, it was said in my family that my mother, an otherwise respectable cook, had prepared for my father, during the first days of their marriage, a very bad dish. The dish was a hot tuna-and-mayonnaise casserole with potato chips as a decorative garnish. It was this tuna casserole that had, as it were, driven my father to teach himself to cook.

**** The Devil Sells Prada <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/books/review/Weber-t.html?ref=books>
by Caroline Weber, New York Times
In "Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster," Dana Thomas investigates the business of designer clothing, leather goods and cosmetics, and finds it wanting. Hijacked, over the past two or three decades, by corporate profiteers with a "single-minded focus on profitability," the luxury industry has "sacrificed its integrity, undermined its products, tarnished its history and hoodwinked its consumers."

**** In Nature's Casino <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/magazine/26neworleans-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&oref=slogin>
by Michael Lewis, New York Times
With the cost of natural disasters far beyond the insurance industry's ability to pay, a new market has sprung up to spread the risk. But how do  you calculate the odds of catastrophe?

**** The Family Jeans <http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/08/27/skinny_jeans/index_np.html?source=rss>
by Katherine Ozment, Salon
Since high school, I'd battle my curvy body into "skinny" jeans. But it wasn't until I wrestled my young daughter's round belly into stylish, slim pants that I knew the fashion madness had to stop.

**** A Nation Of Outlaws <http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/26/a_nation_of_outlaws/>
by Stephen Mihm, Boston Globe
A century ago, that wasn't China &mdash; it was us.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Singapore Police Reject Permit For Opposition Party's Cycling Event <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news_lite.php?id=281490>
by Jackson Sawatan, Bernama
Plans by Singapore's main opposition party, the Workers' Party, to hold a cycling event in conjunction with its 50th anniversary, hit a dead end after its application for a police permit was rejected.

**** Singapore Expects Inflation To Rise <http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070827/singapore_inflation.html?.v=1>
by Associated Press

**** CPF Scheme Amended To Allow Family Members To Support Each Other <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/296293/1/.html>
by May Wong, Channel NewsAsia
The CPF amendments will allow grandchildren to transfer funds from their Ordinary Account to their grandparents' Retirement Accounts, subject to both meeting the top-up criteria.

**** New Bus Journey Planner Rolled Out By LTA, TransitLink <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/296302/1/.html>
by Ng Baoying, Channel NewsAsia

**** Parliament Passes Bill To Set Up Accounting Standards Council <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporebusinessnews/view/296309/1/.html>
by Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia

**** Higher Inflation Forecast Of 1-2% For 2007: MTI <http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/STIStory_152177.html>
by Melissa Kok, Straits Times
Singapore's inflation rate is expected to rise to between 1 and 2 per cent for the whole of 2007, compared to 0.5 to 1  per cent for the first half of the year.

**** The Case For Euthanasia <http://noself.blogspot.com/2007/08/case-for-euthanasia-interesting-article.html>
by Shaun Lee, Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

**** The Relentless Rising Cost Of Living In Singapore <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/27/the-relentless-rising-cost-of-living-in-singapore/>
by theonlinecitizen
The following is a collated list of price increases which TOC could find since Jan 2006 to the present.

**** CPF And Its Creaky Assumptions <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-782.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
The government still takes the view that those who do not work are undeserving, lazy bums. Once again, this shows the extreme reluctance of the govenment to think beyond the "preserve the work ethic at all cost" principle.

**** LTA May Replace Circle Line Contractor <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_152017.html>
by Christopher Tan, Straits Times
Sweden's NCC International may become the first Circle Line MRT contractor to be replaced midway through a project, following disputes with the Land Transport Authority and a concrete supplier.

**** Lessons From Toilets, Transport In Hong Kong <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_151984.html>
by Elizabeth Ng Boon Kwan, Straits Times