[MyAppleMenu] Mar 4, 2007

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MyAppleMenu
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Mac news for Mac people

[News]

*** Deals To Be Found On Apple Hardware At CompUSA
<http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/03/03/deals-to-be-found-on-apple-hardware-at-compusa>
Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica

If you're looking for some bargains on Apple hardware, it's worth stopping by your local CompUSA -- if it's going out of business.

[Opinion]

*** The Display Eater Shuffle
<http://rixstep.com/1/1/20070302,00.shtml>
Rixstep

The previous claim was this was merely a 'scare tactic' to thwart piracy: the program never hosed anything. The people at Koingo Software have all along begged to disagree.

[Review]

*** Current Favorite Writing Apps
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/current_favorite_writing_apps.html>
Robert Daeley, O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog

The Tomorrow Weblog
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<http://www.myapplemenu.com/tomorrow/>
Emerging Technologies. Innovative Applications. New Economy

[News]

*** Social Networking's Next Phase
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/03/technology/03social.html?ex=1330578000&en=f718f182170673a4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Brad Stone, New York Times

*** A Cozy Book Club, In A Virtual Reading Room
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/business/yourmoney/04novel.html?ex=1330664400&en=e19c7523d24ade68&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Anne Eisenberg, New York Times

Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the web.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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The other things in life

[Life]

*** Confessions Of A Book Abuser
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/books/review/Schott.t.html?_r=1&ref=books&oref=slogin>
Ben Schott, New York Times

While the ideas expressed in even the vilest of books are worthy of protection, I find it difficult to respect books as objects, and see no harm whatsoever in abusing them.

*** Darwin's God
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04evolution.t.html?ex=1330664400&en=a43cfb7b24423cc6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Robin Marantz-Henig, New York Times

Call it God; call it superstition -- whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science.

*** Campus Exposure
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/magazine/04sexmagazines.t.html?ex=1330664400&en=8c39657054c8918d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times

These days, when anyone can run a virtual media empire out of a dorm room, student-generated sex magazines, some with the imprimatur of university financing and faculty advisers, are becoming a fact of campus life.

[Expressions]

*** Barking
<http://www.brickmag.com/current/harrison.html>
Jim Harrison, Brick

SingaporeSurf
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Life in the city

[News]

*** Genting Unit To Buy Star Cruises' Stake In Singapore
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aBC9W30OVjP8&refer=asia>
Yumi Teso and Matthew R. Miller, Bloomberg

Genting International Plc, which is building Singapore's second casino-resort, said it will buy Star Cruises Ltd.'s 25 percent stake in the project to help meet government requirements for a gaming license.

*** Pushing The Brush Instead Of A Pram
<http://www.thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/columnists/2007/3/3/insightdownsouth/17030926&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Growing old gracefully may be becoming an increasingly distant pipe dream for Singaporeans, especially the lowly skilled.

*** Interview: Li Xiuqi, Director Of Seletar Airbase: Singapore's Secret Garden
<http://sg.culturepush.com/2007/03/04/interview-li-xiuqi-director-of-seletar-airbase-singapores-secret-garden/>
Culturepush

On discovering that Seletar Airbase was to be demolished to make way for a new aerospace park, the 26-year old architecture graduate made a film, Seletar Airbase: Singapore's Secret Garden, to capture the area's serenity and historical charm that will soon be lost come 2008.

*** Singapore Told No Sand Until Border Disputes Resolved
<http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20070303.B09&irec=8>
Abdul Khalik, Jakarta Post

Fisheries and maritime affairs minister Freddy Numberi said that even if Indonesia overturned the sand export ban, it would want to renegotiate the price of sand and determine which areas could safely be mined to avoid environmental degradation.

*** Failure Of Crazy Horse Not Due To Advertising Restrictions: Dr Balaji
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/261820/1/.html>
Lee Foong Ming, Channel NewsAsia

Dr Balaji pointed out that Singapore is not unusual in having advertising rules.

[Opinion]

*** Philip Yeo's Side Of The AcidFlask/Elia Diodati Incident
<http://aaron-ng.info/blog/philip-yeos-side-of-the-acidflaskelia-diodati-incident.html>
Aaron Ng, Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

"For the past 2 years, Chen Jiahao/Acid Flask/Elia Diodati have been pretending that he did not know what defamatory statements that he had made but nevertheless he apologized. Now claims that 'a commenter that posted defamatory remarks'. A born coward. See the naked truth below."

*** Arrogance
<http://mybitchingarea.blogspot.com/2007/03/arrogance.html>
My Bitching Area

Our arrogance to think that we are better than any of our neighbours just because we are "richer" than them.