[MyAppleMenu] Oct 5, 2008

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**** My MacBook - One Year On <http://supermoose37.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/my-macbook---one-year-on/>
by Marcus Beagley

**** Thinking About Switching To A Mac? <http://hardware.itbusinessnet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=538704>
by Robert Jensen, IT Business Net
I wanted out! I wanted simplicity back in my life.

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**** The Hidden, Joyful World Of Words <http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/10/05/the_hidden_joyful_world_of_words/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Book+reviews>
by Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe
There's not a word in English that isn't furled-up history, resonating to some degree withits notorious unfairness and spin.

**** Stories That Are Jeweled Windows Into Characters <http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/10/05/stories_that_are_jeweled_windows_into_characters/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+Book+reviews>
by Ann Harleman, Boston Globe
The stories in "Yesterday's Weather" offer up surprise after surprise. They're quite short, as short stories go, yet they contain whole worlds inhabited by complex, contradictory characters.

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**** J B Jeyaretnam: The Iconography Begins <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2008/yax-943.htm>
by Au Waipang, Yawning Bread
What was news &mdash; because it is not said everyday at eulogies &mdash; was the way Jeyaretnam's sons spoke of his political life. In its complete silence, the Straits Times once again abandoned its journalistic craft.
And unknowingly underlined everything that Jeyaretnam had been pointing out about the state of democracy in Singapore.

**** Singapore Students Protest University Censorship <http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-35804320081005>
by Reuters
About 60 people gathered at a park in central Singapore on Sunday to protest against a university's decision to censor news stories in the school media related to a prominent opposition politician.

**** Singapore GIC's Key Man Sees Opportunities In Gloom <http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2008/10/05/singapore_gics_key_man_sees_opportunities_in_gloom/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news>
by Saeed Azhar and Kevin Lim, Reuters

**** Google Street View Car Spotted In Singapore <http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10058280-1.html>
by John Chan, CNET News.com

**** Singaporeans Who Think Too Highly Of Themselves <http://pakmakjujat.livejournal.com/47353.html>
by PakMakJujat

**** Who Is My Neighbour? <http://www.catholic.org.sg/cn/wordpress/?p=2760>
by Joanna Png, Catholic News
The negative perception that stems from stereotyping invariably instils an unfounded fear and suspicion of others.

**** The Dialet Debate <http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2008/10/5/lifefocus/2187876&sec=lifefocus>
by Huzir Sulaiman, The Star
As a Malaysian, it saddens me to note time and time again that Singapore does a much better job of giving voice to its ethnic minorities than we do.
All the more reason, then, that it's strange to see that the ancestral voices of Singapore's ethnic Chinese immigrant communities are absent from the electronic mass media. You can hear Malay and Tamil voices but not Hokkien or Cantonese. It's all Mandarin.

**** Fixing The Opposition - Even Beyond The Grave <http://www.xtralicious.com/2008/10/05/fixing-the-opposition-even-beyond-the-grave/>
by Rachel Chung, Xtralicious

**** Dissecting The ST Interview And The Journlist-Blogger Relationship <http://www.xtralicious.com/2008/10/05/dissecting-the-st-interview-and-the-journalist-blogger-relationship/>
by Rachel Chung, Xtralicious

**** Hundreds Pay Final Respects To Singapore Opposition Leader <http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g1LThTrr863HLvryCEa6gQz0ELJw>
by AFP
People from different age groups, social backgrounds and races packed the steepled, English Gothic Saint Andrew's Cathedral in the business district for an Anglican church service.
In a eulogy, Jeyaretnam's eldest son Kenneth compared his father to a raging bull who, despite the blows he received, remained "undefeated and unbowed." Another son, Philip, a prominent lawyer, said his father's principle of "giving voice to the silent" led him to enter politics.