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**** AppSmart Extra: Book Apps For Adults <http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/appsmart-extra-book-apps-for-adults/?partner=rss&emc=rss>
Bob Tedeschi, New York Times

For adults, it might be the best glimpse yet into what iPads can deliver to the storytelling experience.

**** Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries <http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/07/22/apple-laptops-vulnerable-to-hack-that-kills-or-corrupts-batteries/>
Andy Greenberg, Forbes

At the Black Hat security conference in August, Miller plans to expose and provide a fix for a new breed of attack on Apple laptops that takes advantage of a little-studied weak point in their security: the chips that control their batteries.

**** Yes, Google Chrome Built For OS X Lion Is Coming — But It Will Take Time <http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/chrome-os-x-lion/>
MG Siegler, TechCrunch



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**** A Summer Of Drowning By John Burnside - Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/22/summer-of-drowning-burnside-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Joanna Kavenna, The Guardian

Written with deceptive elegance, riddled with gaps and non sequiturs and a clever travesty of several genres, this is a disturbing, provocative book.

**** Vusi Makusi <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/22/ursula-wills-jones-short-story?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Ursula Wills-Jones, The Guardian

**** Why Writers Belong Behind Bars <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/why-writers-belong-in-prison.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss>
Tony Perrottet, New York Times


>From a strictly literary point of view, prison was the best thing that ever happened to the marquis. It was only behind bars that Sade was able to knuckle down and compose the imaginative works upon which his enduring, if peculiar, reputation lies.


**** An Academic Author’s Unintentional Masterpiece <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/an-academic-authors-unintentional-masterpiece.html>
Geoff Dyer, New York Times

In this column I want to look at a not uncommon way of writing and structuring books. This approach, I will argue, involves the writer announcing at the outset what he or she will be doing in the pages that follow.



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**** Managing Money Matters <http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2011/07/managing-money-matters.html>
Singapore Notes

Menon claims from his ivory tower, "A strong Singapore dollar has helped, not just by filtering oil and food price increases, but also by providing a restraining effect on the economy." All we see at ground level is bus and train companies using oil price as excuse to seek a record 2.8 percent hike.

**** Treat Them As Monopolies <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Story/STIStory_693645.html>
Tan Jiaqi, Straits Times

Mrs Teo focused on the efficiency of Singapore's public transport system. But we also need a system that is affordable to the masses, and that does not penalise those who cannot afford private transport, such as forcing them to suffer poor service because they must commute by bus or train.

Public transport in Singapore may be privatised, but it is organised as a duopoly with only the profit motive encouraging operators to be efficient, without correspondingly strict and effective measures to ensure efficient and quality service standards.

**** Parts Of KTM Railway To Be Retained <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_693859.html>
Grace Chua, Straits Times

Some sections of the former Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) railway tracks will be retained, the Nature Society and other heritage interest groups said yesterday.

They emerged from a meeting with government agencies to report that sections of the track at the now-defunct Tanjong Pagar and Bukit Timah railway stations, and those on two steel bridges at Dunearn Road and the Rail Mall, will be kept under existing plans to conserve the stations.

**** 建屋局不再公开 转售组屋整体溢价中位数 <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/sp/sp110723_013.shtml>
李静仪, 联合早报

建屋发展局昨天在公布第二季转售组屋数据时，不再公开整体溢价中位数（overall median COV），令市场人士感到意外。

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**** The Beginning Of A New Era <http://thestar.com.my/columnists/story.asp?col=insightdownsouth&file=/2011/7/23/columnists/insightdownsouth/9152091&sec=Insight%20Down%20South>
Seah Chiang Nee, The Star

As a journalist who has covered Singapore-Malaysia ties for the past 40 years, I detect a resultant sanguine mood, heralding in a new era.

**** 《撞鬼》导演蔡于位： 鬼和电检局 谁比较可怕？ <http://www.zaobao.com.sg/fk/fk110723_012.shtml>
洪铭铧, 联合早报

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**** Singaporeans: We Work Till We Die <http://news.insing.com/tabloid/singaporeans-we-work-till-we-die/id-7cb53c00>
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**** Broken Taboos Take Center Stage In Singapore <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/arts/22iht-jessop22.html?_r=1>
Sonia Kolesnikov-jessop, New York Times

The theater company W!ld Rice has always tried to push the Singapore theater scene’s boundaries by mounting plays that tackle — often humorously — themes regarded as sensitive in the local context, such as homosexuality, religion and politics.

**** 'Loss Of Aljunied GRC Not Entirely Unexpected’ <http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/loss-aljunied-not-entirely-unexpected-ex-pap-chairman-025954452.html>
Jeanette Tan, Yahoo!

Mr Lim also mentioned that the fall in vote share for the PAP stemmed from Singaporeans' desire for a wider range of views and stronger debate. "That desire has grown stronger, and it has always been a matter of time when it would find expression," he said.

"This time, younger Singaporeans conveyed to their parents what transpired in the social media," he said. "Whereas in the past parents advised their children who to vote for, this time children were advising their parents."

**** PM Lee Assures Public Transport Commuters <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1142634/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia

He said that a review is necessary from time to time and increases cannot be helped.