[MyAppleMenu] Sep 5, 2011

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**** Steve Jobs And The Eureka Myth <http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/steve_jobs_and_the_myth_of_eur.html>
Adrian Slywotzky, Harvard Business Review

Apple would love us to believe it's all "Eureka." But Apple produces 10 pixel-perfect prototypes for each feature. They compete — and are winnowed down to three, then one, resulting in a highly evolved winner. Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you'll have to compete outside.

**** Monitor Wi-Fi With Lion's Hidden Tool <http://www.macworld.com/article/162117/2011/09/monitor_wi_fi_with_lions_hidden_tool.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Lex Friedman, Macworld

**** 香港首間 Apple Store 鐵定進駐中環 IFC Mall，宣傳手法反酸山寨店！？ <http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/09/04/hong-kong-apple-store-ifc-confirmed-24th/>
Marco So, Engadget 中文版

即將在德國漢堡開幕的全新 Apple Store 也秀出宣傳，使用火紅色加白色大字體的配搭，與香港的一致。

**** NotifyMe For Mac: Cloud-Based Reminders For The Forgetful <http://www.macgasm.net/2011/09/05/notifyme-mac-rainbows-cloud-nondivine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+macgasm%2Fmain+%28Macgasm%29>
Susan Pigott, Macgasm

NotifyMe for Mac provides a desktop reminder system that can sync to all your iOS devices.



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**** Urbanism Needs To Move Beyond City Boundaries <http://crosscut.com/2011/09/03/urban/21265/Urbanism-needs-to-move-beyond-city-boundaries/>
Peter Steinbrueck, Crosscut

Our fractured metropolitan regions are the big problem in creating sustainable solutions for climate challenges. High-towered, dense city living is only a small part of the solution, which is to develop "ecological urbanisms."

**** How One Magazine Keeps Kids Engaged <http://www.salon.com/life/feature/2011/09/04/abes_peanut_imprint/index.html>
Nicole Torres, Salon

An illustrated children's periodical sends out serialized postcards that tell a story.

**** The Restaurant 'Family' Meal <http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/sep/05/the-restaurant-family-meal>
Oliver Thring, The Guardian

Whether a restaurant feeds its staff and what they're given to eat reveals much about attitudes behind the scenes.



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**** PA Belongs To PAP. Double Confirm?? <http://feedmetothefish.blogspot.com/2011/09/pa-belongs-to-pap-double-confirm.html>
Feed Me To The Fish

Why are they so blind to the fact that it's the bullying, the unfairness, the injustice and the fear-mongering created by PAP that's creating the divide! The use of tax payers' money in PA to serve the selfish political ends of PAP is one stark example of the hubris, the bullying and the injustice!

**** A Case For Repealing 377A <http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/OnlineStory/STIStory_709396.html>
Pamela Oei, Straits Times

Section 377A not only hinders important studies from being conducted, but also ties the hands of educators who should be teaching young ones the proper way to regard safe sex, irrespective of one's sexual orientation.

**** Anatomy Of A Zine: When Magazines Go Indie <http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2091194,00.html>
Meredith Melnick, The Times

For many, the word "zine" will conjure images of Xeroxed-and-stapled underground tributes to science-fiction fandom or '90s riot-grrrl culture. The form tends to be high on enthusiasm, low on production value. But Girl Crush, which features women writing about their female role models, has a glossy professional-grade binding and counts the Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Jennifer Egan among its contributors. Neither the zine nor its launch party would strike anyone as countercultural in spirit.

**** Rising Costs Make It Harder For Hawkers To Freeze Prices <http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_709595.html>
Jessica Lim, Straits Times

Their six-month pledge to hold prices steady will expire soon and rising costs are deterring cooked-food hawkers from renewing it.

**** Is The CPF Scheme Turning Into A Scam? <http://mysingaporenews.blogspot.com/2011/09/is-cpf-scheme-turning-into-scam.html>
Chua Chin Leng, My Singapore News

There are many things that make the CPF smells foul. When the noble objective of a scheme is twisted to serve less noble objectives, or warped objectives, all schemes will turn foul.

**** Did Today De-satirize Letter? <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/09/did-today-de-satirize-letter/>
Today

**** Lee Kuan Yew Rejects Wikileaks Cable Claim <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1151119/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia

Singapore's former minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew said the claim in a cable released by Wikileaks in which he had "characterized Islam as a 'venomous religion'", is false.

He added that that he looked up Ministry of Foreign Affairs' filenote of the meeting and nowhere does it record him describing Islam as "venomous", nor did he say anything which could have given that impression in his meeting with senator Clinton.

**** PAP: From ‘Divide And Conquer’ To The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/09/pap-from-divide-and-conquer-to-the-prisoners-dilemma/>
Tan Chong Kee, The Online Citizen

**** PM Lee's pandora box <http://publichouse.sg/categories/features/item/44-pm-lees-pandora-box>
Andrew Loh, Publichouse.sg

Could the two elections this year portent an unstoppable change? Is PM Lee facing a Pandora’s box which he will have little power to put a lid on? Even if he could, would he?

**** Thoughts On Tan Kin Lian’s post-PE Press Statement <http://ryangoh.wordpress.com/2011/09/03/thoughts-on-tan-kin-lians-post-pe-press-statement/>
Ryan Goh, Life Through These Eyes

I have only two things to conclude- 1) He surrounds himself with ‘yes-men’ as the rumours said or 2) TKL doesn’t really listen to criticism very well.

**** Wikileaks : Govt Does Not Want More Singaporeans To Have University Education... <http://singaporemind.blogspot.com/2011/09/wikileaks-govt-does-not-want-you-to.html>
Diary Of A Singaporean Mind

**** HK's Schooling Woes Dim City's Role As Financial Hub <http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE7840GV20110905?sp=true>
Lisa Yuriko Thomas And James Pomfret, Reuters

Singapore, which vies with Hong Kong as a financial centre, has also struggled to cater to swelling demand for places at international schools in the city state.

But with locals largely barred from enrolling in international schools and local schools offering schooling in English and Chinese anyhow, its seen to be far more receptive to the schooling needs of foreigners than Hong Kong.

**** 新加坡：四个男人，一场选举 <http://news.ifeng.com/shendu/lwdfzk/detail_2011_09/05/8939169_0.shtml>
刘敬, 瞭望东方周刊

5月大选和8月总统选举中暴露出的社会裂痕清晰可见，李显龙之路任重道远。新加坡人更多的则是观望：接下来，总理会做一个怎样的总理？

**** Dissolve PA In Interest Of National Unity <http://theonlinecitizen.com/2011/09/dissolve-pa-in-interest-of-national-unity/>
Joseph Teo, The Online Citizen

The current behavior of the PA seems insufficient and inadequate to address the needs of Singaporeans. I call upon President Tony Tan, whose stated priority is to be the President for all Singaporeans, to advocate the dissolution of the PA as it currently exists, and to reconstitute a non-partisan, pluralistic organization so that we may stand together as one united people.

**** Lee Kuan Yew Denies Venom <http://yawningbread.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/lee-kuan-yew-denies-venom/>
Alex Au, Yawning Bread

This Wikileak-cable incident (and Lee’s denial) is very telling in the way it reveals a serious flaw in the government’s basis for managing the religious landscape. The government tends to pick and choose what versions of religions to acknowledge as legitimate when they go about their “multi-religious” business. They need to do this because in many areas of social policy, they have to find some kind of happy medium (call it what you will: centre of gravity or the lowest common denominator) as anchor for policy. This magic point on the graph cannot be found if the reference points remain nebulous; one has to fix the reference points, before one can compute the centre of gravity or lowest common denominator.

However, the act of fixing the reference points requires a determination of where each religion stands on this and that, and this process then involves the picking and choosing as to which version of each religion to treat as authoritative.

**** Singapore Publications Outline Need To Price Water To Reflect Scarcity <http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=611609>
Bernama

Singapore has launched two publications, 'Blue Paper' and 'Solutions', which outlined imperatives, including the need to price water to reflect its scarcity while ensuring its affordability.

**** Lee Kuan Yew Denies Branding Islam As ‘Venomous Religion’ <http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/seasia/lee-kuan-yew-denies-branding-islam-as-venomous-religion/463408>
AFP

Lee’s comments sparked a furore among Singapore’s online community, which now plays a large part in shaping public debate in the city-state, where newspapers are perceived to be pro-government.

“[Lee Kuan Yew] should not make general and sweeping statements like that,” Lee Rou Xuan, a Singaporean citizen, wrote on the Facebook page of the blog site The Online Citizen.

**** Yaacob Ibrahim Clarifies Wikileaks Report On Children's Citizenship <http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1151206/1/.html>
Imelda Saad, Channel NewsAsia

In a statement through his press secretary, Dr Yaacob said the status of his wife as an American citizen by birth confers dual citizenship to their two children until the age of 18. His son and daughter are Singapore citizens and attend national schools.

The statement said that Dr Yaacob's son, now 16, will serve National Service, just as he did.

**** No Showers, Toilets In New Singapore Lounge For Frequent Flyers <http://www.ausbt.com.au/no-showers-toilets-in-new-singapore-lounge-for-frequent-flyers>
John Walton, Australian Business Traveller

We can't think of another major international airline -- particularly one with such a focus on connecting passengers -- that doesn't offer showers and toilets in the lounges its elite passengers pass through at its home hub.

**** No Room For The Dead In Singapore <http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5idLqLcmKly8VuiqjQFZUHZ58yeCw?docId=CNG.f137d8559f89f17826aba9de64a179a0.7c1>
Bernice Han, AFP

The days are numbered for Bukit Brown Cemetery, one of Singapore's oldest burial grounds, but concerned citizens are campaigning for history to win over high-rises.

**** Kuan Yew Warns Singaporeans Not To Turn Current Political Divide Into National Divide <http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=611680>
Bernama

Singapore's former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew has cautioned Singaporeans not to allow the current political divide in Singapore to turn into a national divide as it would hamper the country's growth.




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