[MyAppleMenu] Jul 31, 2011

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Apple Begins Refunding Lion Overcharges <http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/30/apple-begins-refunding-lion-overcharges/>
Jordan Golson, MacRumors

**** The One Rule <http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2011/07/31/the_one_rule.html>
Rands In Repose

It might not seem like a lot of change, but after religiously trying Exposé and Spaces for years, Mission Control finally feels like my desktop and not a set of sexy but poorly integrated tools that were fun to demo but hard to use.



MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** Reverting To A Wild State <http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/08/01/110801fi_fiction_torres>
Justin Torres, New Yorker

**** Don't Vote! It Just Encourages The Bastards By PJ O'Rourke – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/31/dont-vote-pj-orourke-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Jessica Holland, The Guardian

It's important, as PJ O'Rourke says in this good-naturedly cantankerous polemic, to shout at the radio now and again. He listens to National Public Radio rather than fellow rightwinger Rush Limbaugh, because "when I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me". There's no point being preached to when you're already a convert.

**** The Sense Of An Ending By Julian Barnes – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/31/sense-ending-julian-barnes-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Justin Cartwright, The Guardian

Deservedly longlisted for the Man Booker prize, this is a very fine book, skilfully plotted, boldly conceived, full of bleak insight into the questions of ageing and memory, and producing a very real kick – or peripeteia – at its end.

**** Tippoo Sultan's Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy‑Machine!!! By Daljit Nagra – Review <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/31/tippoo-sultan-daljit-nagra-review?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29>
Kate Kellaway, The Guardian

Even the title is a pick-me-up: animated, garrulous, entertaining and breaking an unwritten rule (since when were three exclamation marks welcomed in poetry?).

**** Book Review: 'Stolen Pleasures' By Gina Berriault <http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-ca-gina-berriault-20110731,0,3771305.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+features%2Fbooks+%28Los+Angeles+Times+-+Books%29>
David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

The late writer's facility with small epiphanies is evident in these selected stories.



SingaporeSurf
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**** “Deeply Disappointed”: Tony Tan <http://atans1.wordpress.com/2011/07/31/“deeply-disappointed”-tony-tan/>
Thoughts Of A Cynical Investor

Why did you and your team assume that S’poreans know that yr son is a President’s Scholar, or that in the US a college degree is needed before one can go to medical school or that it takes so long to qualify as a MD in the US.

Oh and what apologising for not giving the facts in the first place? Facts that would prevented us from being distracted? And from wasting our time.

**** Forced Entry Into Your Home To Check For Dengue! <http://lohandbehold.com/2011/07/31/forced-entry-into-your-home-to-check-for-dengue/>
Loh And Behold

If they are repeatedly allowed to do this unrestrained and unchecked, governments can become emboldened and ignore the fact that such acts can constitute blatant violation of the rights of citizens. It can also lead to all kinds of abuses.

**** Brave Old World: The Return Of The Normal In Singapore Politics <http://mollymeek.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/brave-old-world-the-return-of-the-normal-in-singapore-politics/>
Molitics

**** Dignity For The Old Begins With Our Hearts <http://andrewlohhp.wordpress.com/2011/07/30/dignity-for-the-old-begins-with-our-hearts/>
Andrew Loh

I think when a country allows its elderly to die alone in a foreign land, we as a people, as a nation, loses something precious.

**** Lui Tuck Yew Should Think Out Of The PAP Box <http://pijitailai.blogspot.com/2011/07/lui-tuck-yew-should-think-out-of-pap.html>
Piji Tailai

Lui Tuck Yew should think out of the PAP box by looking at faces of change and possibility.

**** Soul Of A Nation: The Corporatist State <http://www.sgpolitics.net/?p=7000>
Ng E-Jay, Sgpolitics.net

**** Do We Need The IRs? <http://www.todayonline.com/Voices/EDC110801-0000030/Do-we-need-the-IRs?>
Jedidiah Tan, Today