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Daily SG: 20 May 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 20th May 2008

The Sichuan Earthquake
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Interviewing victims pinned under collapsed buildings?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Politics of Karma
- Singapore Life and Times: Business of giving

Burma Aid
- Yawning Bread: Burma should be suspended from Asean
- nofearSingapore: ASEAN, please expel Burma [Thanks Dr.Huang]
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: ASEAN wins trust of Myanmar generals; but what does it say about ASEAN?
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: Burmese candlelight vigil for the cyclone victims (17 May 2008)

Voting for the Opposition
- A Partisan Guy: 3 Scenarios… Hush [Thanks Peter]
- The Kway Teow Man: Yaw Shin Leong is Right!
- The Online Citizen: WP’s OS voted for the PAP
- The Wayang Party Club of Singapore: WP CEC member Yaw Shin Leong proud to vote for PAP !!!
- Sheep City: A vote on the wild side

Paper Chase
- Looking through the eyes of _ _: On scholarships

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Explaining the UGLY SINGAPOREAN!!!
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: What now for FEER?

Censoring the Video
- Ian On The Red Dot: The Screening of “One Nation Under Lee” - The Authorities Were Restrained

The Price of Rice
- The Online Citizen: The rise and fall of rice

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Life and Times: Gone with the sex
- Military Life: How to get pass IPPT in the Singapore Armed Forces
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Fragrance Prince - Watch what you post on your blog
- Nomed Letters: It’s all Politics, Stupid!
- Simply Jean: ST forum writer self pwned ? Read between the lines in the reply and you’ll know why
- the(new)mediaslut: Real or mock, a protest in SG by another other name still requires a police permit

Life, the universe and everything
- Just Stuff: A Wesak Day Message - Me and A Tree Called ‘Bo’
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland : S.A.M. minimum $2 purchase of stamps irks
- the boy who knew too much: Chicken Soup for a Singaporean Soul
- harmless? bananas!: Do you really care about social media?
- Cooler Insights: Laughter the Best Advertising Medicine?

An extra bump for Linda:

Survey Participants Needed
A NTU Masters student is conducting an Internet survey on “Internet Users’ Perceptions of Socio-Political Blog Credibility in Singapore”. The survey comprises of 19 questions and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. This survey will run throughout May 2008 and respondents stand a chance of winning $200 cash.

If interested, please click here.

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Daily Tech: Report Finds Starhub Blocking BitTorrent Traffic

Posted by singaporedaily on 20th May 2008


A test result done by a German institute concerning Bittorrent blocking activities in various parts of the world has named Starhub as one of the companies that engages in Bittorrent traffic blocking.
Source. [Thanks Lurzan]

Reviews
- Hardwarezone: The Mother of Boards: Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 Preview
- Techware Labs: Creative X-FI XtremeGamer FATAL1TY Pro Series
- Velocityreviews: XBox 360 PC Controller
- Bit-tec: Lian Li V1110
- Futurelooks: Gelid GC1 High Performance Thermal Compound Review
- TrustedReviews: Philips DVDR5520H DVD/HDD Recorder

Tech News
- Washington Post: Shortsighted Nostalgia for XP
- Shacknews: AMD Talks ‘Console-like’ PC Brand
- Times Online: Google in urgent talks over Microsoft-Yahoo! deal
- WSJ: Google Helps Organize Medical Records

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