[MyAppleMenu] Apr 12, 2008

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**** China Mobile, Apple Yet To Open Formal Talks Over iPhone Launch <http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-04/12/content_7966325.htm>
by Xinhua
China Mobile has not started formal negotiations with Apple Inc. over the iPhone, despite the intention of both sides to cooperate.

**** Apple's MacBook Air Love Affair <http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-macbookair-benderoff-column,1,5266443.column>
by Eric Benderoff, Chicago Tribune
I adore Apple's MacBook Air so much I'm starting to think I can live with its shortcomings.

**** Burger Shop Game Now Available <http://www.macworld.com/article/132954/2008/04/burgershop.html>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Steal This Book! Please! <http://www.slate.com/id/2188528/?from=rss>
by Tim Harford, Slate
Why software and media companies should encourage priacy (sometimes).

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Total Recall <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-essay-t.html?ex=1365739200&en=753255582897c5c0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Gary Marcus, New York Times
How much would you pay to have a small memory chip implanted in your brain if that chip would double the capacity of your short-term memory? Or guarantee that you would never again forget a face or a name?

**** The Guest-Host Industrial Complex <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-medium-t.html?ex=1365739200&en=b3bb38e8abf467d6&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>
by Virginia Heffernan, New York Times
Brarry Diller is wrecking parties. I maynever be invited anywhere ever again, but I must speak out against Evite, his company, for stamping a hideous brand on hospitality.

**** Revenge Of The Nerds <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/08/AR2008040802046.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine>
by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post
Why women are settling for 23rd best.

**** Can The Cellphone Help End Global Poverty? <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13anthropology-t.html?_r=1&ex=1365739200&en=b7ab078ac1340d7a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin>
by Sara Corbett, New York Times
Why a corporate "user anthropologist" is spending so much of his time in the shantytowns of the world.

**** Don't Forget The F-Word <http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2272924,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10>
by Erica Jong, Guardian
We have spilled oceans of ink, cut down forests of trees, blazed through the internet in light, and the world is still dominated by the sex-bearing appendages rather than clefts. Why?

**** 'Make Room! Make Room!' <http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-et-book10apr10,0,5314201.story?track=rss>
by David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times
Harrison's novel, which has just been reissued after more than a quarter century out of print, is an allegory, a cautionary tale of what might happen in American consumption goes unchecked.

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**** Speech <http://liquidstranger.blogspot.com/2008/04/l-o-v-e.html>
by Liquidstranger
'If it won't change a thing, why bother to make a fuss?' I detest such.

**** Singapore: The Most Honest And Disciplined Country In The World <http://thebaldgolfer.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/sembawang-golf-course-singapore/>
by The Bald Golfer

**** Proposed Fourth University To Take In Students By 2011 <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/341038/1/.html>
by Julia Ng, Channel NewsAsia

**** Lee Hsien Loong Calls On World To Kowtow To China <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-863.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
Lee's observation may be valid, but his implied prescription &mdash; stop protesting against China &mdash; is not only wrong, but downright laughable. No passionate believer in freedom is going to self-censor. No democratic government is going to stop people from protesting.
China needs to be free in order to be truly part of the greater world, in order to be a force for peace. That's what we should be working towards, not deference to dictators' fears and to uninformed, nationalistic xenophobes' pride. Enforced quiescence on the streets is not peace. Not in Tibet, not anywhere.

**** The MRT - No Place For An Able Bodied Male <http://www.insanepoly.com/blog/?p=513>
by Insane Polygons
Being an able bodied male means I am right at the bottom of the seat totem pole.

**** NWC Likely To Propose Lower Pay Hikes <http://www.straitstimes.com/Free/Story/STIStory_226372.html>
by Sue-Ann Chia, Straits Times
The National Wages Council faces a tough task in deciding wage guidelines for this year, analysts said yesterday. It will have to strike a balance between forces pulling in different directions.

**** Reader Wanted To Know Why TV Mobile Couldn't Be Silenced <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_226393.html>
by Selene Cheng, Straits Times

**** C*ns*rsh*p <http://www.todayonline.com/articles/247993.asp>
by Ravi Veloo, Today
Having a 65-member panel agree with a ban could defuse criticism, but the root of the problem doesn't go away: WHose view presides? A few loud voices can set the agend, claiming to speak for the rest of us.
/And even if this 65-mmeber panel all agree with each other, the point remains: why should this 65 people determine what I can or cannot see?/
Limit only what we need to protect children, when we can.
/Even so, I, as a parent, should be the one deciding on what my young children can or cannot see. Not you. Not the government./

**** The Different Faces Of Singapore <http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/4/12/focus/20914452&sec=focus>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
Singapore's Gini coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has worsened from 42.5 in 1998 to 47.2 in 2006, which makes it in league with the Philippines and Guatemala, and worse than CHina, according to the World Bank.
This is one of the worst failures of the modern People's Action Party, despite its 'democratic socialism' principles.

**** Do We Really Have To Suck Up To The Chinese Like That? <http://singaporepatriot.blogspot.com/2008/04/do-we-really-have-to-suck-up-to-chinese.html>
by Gerald Giam, SIngapore Patriot
In his effort to butter up the Communist Chinese, PM Lee has revealed how out ot step he and his government are with regard to the growing tide of democratization and justice that is sweeping even our end of the world.