[MyAppleMenu] Sep 22, 2008

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MyAppleMenu
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**** MercuryMover 2.0 Window Resizing Tool Released <http://www.macworld.com/article/135661/2008/09/mercurymover.html?lsrc=rss_main>
by Peter Cohen, Macworld

**** Apple's App Store Is A Winner <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2008/tc20080919_028889.htm?technology+product+review>
by Cliff Edwards, BusinessWeek
There are not many products out there that keep me occupied for hours with a wealth of entertainment, information, and productivity features. For that, you've got to give Apple credit.

The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Technology Doesn't Dump Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/technology/21ping.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
by Damon Darlin, New York Times
Over the course of human history, writing, printing, computing and Googling have only made it easier to think and communicate.

MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Fear Of Fairy Tales <http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/21/fear_of_fairy_tales/>
by Joanna Weiss, Boston Globe
"Fairy tale" may be our shorthand for castles and happy endings, but these classic stories have villians, too - nefarious witches, bloodthirsty wolves, stepmothers up to no good. And scholars have come to see the stories' dark elements as the source of their power, not to mention their persistence over the centuries.

SingaporeSurf
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**** Singapore Wage Growth To Halve If Recession Hits - Union <http://asia.news.yahoo.com/080922/3/3peah.html>
by Koh Gui Qing, Reuters
Wage growth in Singpore will probably halve to 2-2.5 percent in 2009 from around 4-5 percent this year if the country slides into a recession in the third quarter, a top labour union official said on Monday.

**** The Most Important Meal <http://meiadeleite.com/2008/09/22/the-most-important-meal/>
by Meiadeleite.com
The clear coffee mugs of the hawker centers are lined up in the shelves, ready to be used. When you look at time you can see a thick white layer sitting on the bottom of the mugs.

**** The Singapore Formula For Ethnic Harmony <http://miyagi.sg/2008/09/the-singapore-formula-for-ethnic-harmony/>
by My Very Own Glob
It is diabolically simple - just don't talk about it.

**** Funding F1 Is More Important Than School Upgrading: Have Big Business And Glam Gone To Singapore Government's Head? <http://blueheeler.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/funding-f1-is-more-important-than-school-upgrading-have-big-business-glam-gone-to-spore-govts-head/>
by BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits
A F1 race on the busy streets of Singapore propels us into instant international 'cool-doom', while new state-of-the-art classrooms will hardly make us sexy globally, correct?

**** OB Markers, Not Apathy, Deter Interfaith Dialogue <http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Online%2BStory/STIStory_281074.html>
by Isabel Chew, Straits Times
If we are so afraid of offending people's sensibilities, we may end up propagating even more stereotypes and misconceptions. And these sentiments will eventually fester and result in an even greater loss for Singapore as a multi-religious society.

**** Tharman Says Singapore's Financial Institutions Stable <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/377470/1/.html>
by Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia
"We are glad that overall, if you look at what is happening in Singapore compared to other financial centres, confidence in the market has been retained," says finance minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam. But he said a technical recession - defined by two consecutive quarters of economic contraction - is possible in Singapore.

**** Police Ban On Tamil Language Discussion At Speaker's Corner Proves The Liberalization Is Mere Tokenism <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=710>
by Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net