[MyAppleMenu] Oct 25, 2008

[applesurf at myapplemenu.com]

MyAppleMenu
====================================

**** Apple, Amazon's Secret Weapon: Relevance <http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=93324>
by Diane Mermigas, MediaDailyNews

**** Week In Review: Reversal Of Fortunes <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10074501-92.html>
by Steven Musil, CNET News.com

**** Is A Mac Right For You? <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27360478/>
by Jason R. Rich, Entrepreneur.com
What today's business people and entrepreneurs are quickly beginning to understand is that Apple's iMacs and MacBooks can not only handle virtually every business application a PC can handle, but also provide a more stress-free computing experience.

**** Microsoft: New Macs Are Pricey! And Deceptive! And Unfair! Even...Dictatorial! <http://technologizer.com/2008/10/24/microsoft-new-macs-not-just-pricey-but-also-deceptive-and-unfair/>
by Harry McCracken, Technologizer
For all the arguments it makes that Windows laptops are a better value, there's one feature that all Windows laptops have in common that Microsoft doesn't mention. That would be.. Windows. You know, the operating system.
I'm not saying that it's impossible to make the case that Windows Vista is a plus compared to OS X. But I think it's fascinating that Microsoft didn't even try...

**** Apple To Oppose Anti-Gay Marriage Ballot Question <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10074793-37.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
by Tom Krazit, CNET News.com
Apple has joined Google in publicly opposing a Calfornia ballot initative that would deny marriage rights to same-sex couples.

**** Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare <http://www.insidemacgames.com/reviews/view.php?ID=994>
by Jack Shiels, Inside Mac Games
If ever there was a perfect example of the FPS genre, this was it.

The Tomorrow Weblog
====================================

**** The Idea Of "Open Source DRM" Makes Me Want To Vomit With Rage <http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2844>
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com

MyAppleMenu Reader
====================================

**** A Big Joke <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/17/AR2008101701433.html?nav=rss_print/washpostmagazine>
by Gene Weingarten, Washington Post
Why did the post office throw the clock out the window?

**** Cracking Wise <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Kirby-t.html>
by David Kirby, New York Times
People are funny. Words are funnier. And poems, when they're at their smartest and best-made, are funniest of all.

**** Young America's Wild Side <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Winik-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
by Jay WInik, New York Times
In his latest book, "Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson," David S. Reynolds asks us to more carefully consider the brawling, chaotic, boisterous years from 1815 to 1848 as a fascinating age in its own right.

**** Green Fantasia <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22027>
by Bill McKibben, New York Review Of Books
Just as you can't run for commander-in-chief on any platform other than "Our best days are still ahead of us," so you can't run for pundit-n-chief either. But those instincts can get you in trouble.

**** Missing The Mark <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122489468502968839.html?mod=rss_Books>
by Lionel Shriver, Wall Street Journal
QUotation marks have fallen out of favor, and that's bad for books.

SingaporeSurf
====================================

**** Gambling On Casinos To Lift Gloom <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2008/10/25/columnists/insightdownsouth/2362667&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
by Seah Chiang Nee, The Star
The two casinos, opening late next year and early 2010, will need 20,000 employees that will provide a bright spark to the poor job market.

**** 500 Protest Lost Savings <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_294823.html>
by Gracia Chiang, Straits Times
For the third week in a row, about 500 investors gathered in Hong Lim Park eager to find out how they can seek redress for Lehman-linked financial products they claim were mis-sold to them.

**** Be Tiny, Live Longer? <http://www.economist.com/blogs/certainideasofeurope/2008/10/when_small_is_beautiful.cfm>
by The Economist

**** 10,000 Duds? <http://singaporelifetimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/10000-duds.html>
by Singapore Life And Times

**** Epileptic Case: Police Will Strive To Do Better <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_294567.html>
by Paul Tay, Singapore Police Force, Straits Times
We have reviewe the case and agree we could have handled the situation better. On this, we will strive to do better.

**** Flasher On Board? Get Him Off The Bus, I'm Late <http://tnp.sg/news/story/0,4136,181204,00.html?>
by Benson Ang, New Paper
A father tried to catch a man who exposed himself to his teenage daughter on a public bus - and discovered the best and worst in Singaporeans.

**** Talent Won't Flow Smoothly <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_294705.html>
by Lee Siew Hua, Straits Times
Cultural barriers do not come down easily in Asia, and for this reason, minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew believes talent will not flow smoothly across borders anyt ime soon.

**** Judge Has Bounden Duty To Protect Citizens Rights <http://yoursdp.org/index.php/perspective/vantage/1299-judge-has-bounden-duty-to-protect-citizens-rights>
by Singapore Democratic Party
What the minister says and does is in conflict with the Constitution. So what do you do when there is such a conflict?