[MyAppleMenu] Oct 4, 2009

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MyAppleMenu
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**** StuffIt Deluxe 2010 <http://www.tuaw.com/2009/10/03/tuaw-review-stuffit-deluxe-2010/>
Steven Sande, TUAW

**** Why CIOs Are Saying No To Macs <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10366940-92.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Jo Best, CNET News



The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** Prototype: It’s Brand New, But Make It Sound Familiar <http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=6909d7aa9a196d2fbef781e16fe8e58f>
Mary Tripsas, New York Times



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** The First Counter-revolutionary <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091019/robin/single>
Corey Robin, The Nation

It's no accident that Hobbes fled his enemies and then his friends, for he was fashioning a political theory that shredded longstanding alliances.



SingaporeSurf
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**** Concern Over Rising Foreign Population <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?file=/2009/10/3/columnists/insightdownsouth/4826207&sec=insightdownsouth>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

Singapore has always been dependent on migrants for its economic prosperity and making up for a low birth-rate, but there are fears that this is just pushing it too far and too fast.

**** Education Ministry Looks Like It Has Something To Hide <http://www.yawningbread.org/arch_2009/yax-1070.htm>
Yawning Bread

**** Newspapers' Future Uncertain <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_438016.html>
Eisen Teo, Straits Times

The Campus Observer (TCO) and The Enquirer - online university newspapers led and staffed solely by undergraduates - are finding it tough to sustain their projects on passion alone.

Because these publications are not affiliated with schools or on-campus organisations, their staff do not receive Co-Curricular Activity points, and neither are they paid.

**** Tell Us Please, How Was The $0.25 Charge Arrived At? <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC091004-0000107/Online-Only---Tell-us-please,-how-was-the-$0,25-charge-arrived-at?>
Peter Low, Today

**** Residents Get Reassurance <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_438081.html>
Serene Luo, Straits Times

Sembawang residents will still get their fresh cuts of meat and produce, Health Minister and Sembawang constituency adviser Khaw Boon Wan said on Sunday. He reassured residents that he understood how important wet markets were to them and that he is working on keeping such markets available to them.

**** Singapore Must Understand Changes In Japan, Says PM <http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_438227.html>
Straits Times

'Japan, like other countries, was hit by the global economic crisis. It now has a new, non-LDP government. It is important for Singapore to understand the profound changes taking place in Japan,' he said, in a written reply released yesterday.