[MyAppleMenu] May 22, 2010

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**** Mac Lags Windows In Gaming Performance, Excels At Stability <http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/05/mac-lags-windows-in-gaming-performance-excels-at-stability.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss>
Chris Foresman, Ars Technica

The Steam for Mac client has been in the hands of gamers for a week now and Valve is collecting some useful data about Mac users. Among the statistics the company has gathered so far: two-thirds of Steam for Mac users run on laptops, and after one week, 11 percent of all Steam purchases are for Mac. One surprising result, however, is that the same version of Portal is five times more stable on Mac OS X than on Windows.

**** How To Uninstall iTunes <http://www.macworld.com/article/151428/2010/05/itunes_uninstall.html?lsrc=rss_main>
Ted Landau, Macworld

**** One District Attorney's Journey To iPad Happiness <http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/21/one-das-journey-to-ipad-happiness/>
Lauren Hirsch, TUAW

**** YoruFukurou Is The Tinkerer's Twitter Client <http://www.macworld.com/reviews/product/526743/review/yorufukurou_213.html?expand=true&lsrc=rss_main>
Dan Frakes, Macworld

It’s the program’s no-nonsense interface and unique features that hooked me.

**** How The Enterprise Came To Apple <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-20005634-61.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple>
Gordon Haff, CNET News

The ubiquity of cell phones and even the widespread use of personal smartphones with data plans starts to make separate dedicated business devices seem a bit anachronistic for many situations. More and more corporate applications have Web front-ends that can be accessed from any securely-connected browser. The workforce is more mobile; employees don't just do business from a desktop system in the office. In short, for many people, there's a blurring of the personal and the professional that makes a clean separation of personal devices and professional ones difficult at best.

**** Apple Starts Stocking Shelves Of International IBooks Stores <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/05/apple-starts-stocking-shelves-of-international-ibooks-stores/>
Charlie Sorrel, Wired

**** Google, Apple, Jacob, And The Man In Black <http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/21/google-apple-lost/>
MG Siegler, TechCrunch



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**** Temperance To Excess <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html?partner=rss&emc=rss>
David Oshinsky, New York Times

A remarkably original account of the Prohibition era, a 14-year orgy of lawbreaking that permanently transformed American social life.

**** What Made Dylan Roar? <http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-paperback-writers-20100523,0,1099257.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+features%2Fbooks+%28Los+Angeles+Times+-+Books%29>
Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times

A reissue of Thomas' 'Collected Poems' offers an occasion to consider the poet's elemental voice and outrageous behavior.

**** The Diary Of A Dr Who Addict By Paul Magrs <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/22/diary-doctor-who-paul-magrs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
SF Said, The Guardian

The genius of Paul Magrs's book is the way it uses this notion of regeneration as a metaphor for adolescence: a time when your whole life changes, a new body grows around you, and you have no idea who you may be becoming – just that all familiar certainties are gone for ever.

**** In A Strange Room By Damon Galgut <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/22/strange-room-damon-galgut-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jan Morris, The Guardian

Travel writing has such a wretched name these days that one is reluctant to associate any serious writer with it, but I have to say that Damon Galgut's new novel contains some truly superlative examples of the genre.



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**** The Court Isn't A Computer <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC100522-0000065/The-court-isnt-a-computer>
Sanjay Perera, Today

Mandating too rigidly the parameters for the punishment of a crime is akin to having a computer into which one keys in the details of the crime, and then sees the results churned out instantly.

**** Singapore Navy Testing Unmanned Mine-hunter: Report <http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20100522/tap-singapore-military-technology-06f3cb7.html>
AFP

The Singapore navy is testing an unmanned underwater vessel capable of detecting and destroying mines as part of its modernisation plans, a report said Saturday.

**** Changing Pay-cut Mindset: Govt-linked Firms Must Take Lead <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_529812.html>
P. James, Air Line Pilots Association - Singapore, Straits Times

I know that efforts are being made at all levels to change the mindset and to discourage discrimination based on age, but for this lifelong employment initiative to really take off, all government and government-linked companies must be directed to take the lead and do the right thing.

**** Japan Sends Rare Turtles To Singapore For Release <http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.71472116fb864fa43b0645b6d0e2ea0e.171&show_article=1>
AFP

Thirteen endangered sea turtles bred in captivity in Japan have been given to a Singapore aquarium to prepare them for release into a natural habitat later this year, scientists said Friday.

**** Compounding The Question Of Compounding Offences <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/compounding-the-question-of-compounding-offences/>
Yawning Bread

It’s all very well for the Law Minister to clarify a conceptual concept, but the bigger issue for Singapore is not addressed: How to justify confidence in the independence of our justice system?