[MyAppleMenu] Feb 4, 2007

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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Advertising Jabs Between Microsoft, Apple Not Getting Any Nicer
<http://lubbockonline.com/stories/020407/bus_020407017.shtml>
May Wong, Associated Press

It's unclear if the ads have had a direct effect on Mac sales, but analysts say they have played a role in raising the public's awareness of Apple, alongside the immense popularity of the iPod player, Apple's growing number of retail stores and its new line of computers using Intel chips.

*** iPhone Demands Challenge Suppliers
<http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=2/4/2007&section_id=13&newsid=51452&spcl=no>
Financial Express

Apple's new iPhone is music to the ears of Asian handset-components makers, but analysts say a runaway success for the feature-jammed phone could create huge challenges for some of those parts suppliers.

*** Apple Warns That It May Lose Select Listing With Nasdaq
<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2581389,00.html>
Tom Brawden and Dearbail Jordan, The Times

Apple has given warning that it could be removed from the highly regarded Nasdaq Global Select Market, as the maker of iPod and Macintosh acknwoledged for the first time that it was the subject of a federal investigation into its stock option practices.

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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Sharp Bites
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/fashion/04bloggers.html?ex=1328245200&en=a8a8b56c76a2d41e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Allen Salkin, New York Times

There is a new food game in the city that never stops grazing. A proliferation of blogs treating every menu revision, construction permit, clash of egos and suspiciously easy-to-get reservation as high drama is changing the rules of the restaurant world and forcing everyone from owners to chefs to publicists to get used to the added scrutiny.

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Life in the city

[News]

*** Slashing Arms Is 'Fashion' For Singapore Girls
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/27100.html>
DPA

Girls as young as 12 are slashing their arms with penknives in a pact phenomenon that is alarming Singapore's psychiatrists and counsellors.

*** All Budget Airlines Welcome Except Those From Singapore
<http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/2/4/nation/16780735&sec=nation>
The Star

Airports in Malaysia are open to budget airlines from anywhere in the world, except from Singapore. The exception on the republic is due to its proximity to the Senai international airport in Johor, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy.

*** KL 'Not Blaming Singapore' For Kota Tinggi Flood
<http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:d36b6326c9880110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Straits Times

Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid, Malaysia's Environment Minister, said the claim 'is not conclusive. It didn't come from us. So it's not an official government view'.

*** Govt To Share Extra Cost Builders Hit By Rising Sand Prices
<http://www.straitstimes.com/portal/site/STI/menuitem.c2aef3d65baca16abb31f610a06310a0/?vgnextoid=6fadbe120b93a010VgnVCM1000000a35010aRCRD&vgnextfmt=vgnartid:439c6326c9880110VgnVCM100000430a0a0aRCRD>
Melissa Sim, Straits Times

Minister for National Development Mah Bow Tan said the government is prepared to share up to 75 per cent of the additional cost for existing public building contracts, and hoped that private developers will do the same.

*** Sylvia Lim: WP Will Not Push Gay Issues In Parliament
<http://singaporepatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/sylvia-lim-wp-will-not-push-gay-issues.html>
Gerald Giam, Singapore Patriot

Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim told a packed audience of over 80 people at the WP headquarters yesterday that her party will not be canvassing for the de-criminalisation of gay sex in Singapore.

[Opinion]

*** The Lesson From Singapore
<http://socglory.blogspot.com/2007/02/lesson-from-singapore-president-george.html>
John Ray, Socialized Medicine

By reducing the proportion of the economy administered by third parties, and forcibly raising the national savings rate, the CPF system brings two huge economic benefits which would enormously help the performance of both the US and British economies.

*** Deep Throats
<http://xenoboysg.blogspot.com/2007/02/deep-throats.html>
A Xeno Boy In Sg

The objective of the counter-insurgency unit is to stop this coalescing of numbers. It's to plant seeds of doubt. It's to divide. Not overtly. Not overt propaganda at all.

*** Perspectival Shift And Capital Punishment
<http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2007/yax-709.htm>
Yawningbread.org

Death penalty abolitionists have to address the question of how they can share their sense of moral horror with others in order to engender a perspectival shift.

*** Establishmentarianists, Antiestablishmentarianists, And Anti-Antiestablishmentarianists
<http://diodati.omniscientx.com/2007/02/03/anti-antiestablishmentarianists/>
Elia Diodati, E Pur Si Muove

The Estalishment wants to play ball. I say: let them play. But let them learn the hard way that they cannot dictate the rules of engagement online without losing credibility completely.

*** Another Government Public Relations Boo Boo
<http://aaron-ng.info/blog/another-government-public-relations-boo-boo.html>
Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

The government can assemble teams of IT savvy people, but I think they need to get some PR savvy people, as well as prominent people from inside the internet community.

[Entertainment]

*** Singapore With The Kids
<http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,21158376-27977,00.html>
Anita Roberts, The Australian

How can you beat Singapore as a destination for young kids? It's safe, friendly and staggeringly clean with accessible transport, world-class attractions and a fascinating mix of cultures -- all of this, and a year-round climate that favours, even demands, swimming and ice cream.