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The Sony girls are back again at the PC Show 2008 over the weekend. Many familiar faces from last year’s Comex. Has it been that long already?

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June 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Singapore Dissident: Singapore. Another day in court
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Gopalan Nair’s Mention No. 4
- Article 14: Gopalan Nair’s original charge has been replaced (according to AFP)
- Sgpolitics: Prosecution continues to flip-flop over Gopalan Nair’s case
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: “…..old people have the dignity of employment….”

Have you ever wondered why we must serve..
- Singapore Alternatives: One Death Too Many
- Desparatebeep: Generation Stupid Meets Generation Hopeless
- Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: Duty, Honour and Country – Can eat meh?
- I Not Stupid: National Service – One Stone Kills Many Birds!

Fixating the Opposition
- Sgpolitics: The ‘Approved-Opposition’ Fallacy

Civil Disobedience & Human Rights
- The Rot Within: So what is a fanatic? [Thanks twasher]

Jailbreak Part Deux
- Urbanrant: We did not learn because the punishment was not severe enough

CPF & Medisave
- My Singapore News: Fanatics in Paradise

Inflation & Cost of Living
- Murmurs, Mutters and Other White Noise: Inflation Across the Causeway

Daily Discourse
- Yawning bread: Why only ‘practical NGOs’ and for economic reasons?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: ASEAN need to hit Myanmar’s rulers
- Just Stuff: The Great Singaporean ‘Take Away’/ A Study in ‘Brain Drain’ Management
- The boy who knew too much: A cause of death: legislation against fitness
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: Global Trends on Blogger Arrests for 2008
- blabbering blob of blogging blogger: Pinyin names
- Sg_Ljers: Should we hang illegal immigrants or children beyond parental control?

Life, the universe and everything
- Just Jean: Help needed: I was molested by a friend while I was asleep
- the(new)mediaslut: To link or not to link is the question for the Associate Press

Infoblogoramus
- Ian On The Red Dot: Beautiful Pictures Of HDB Flats

June 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Before you dive into the GT200 stuff, in other news, Firefox 3 to be released today! Check out their launch bid.

Nvidia Geforce GT200 Launched
- The Tech Report: Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 280 graphics processor
- AnandTech: NVIDIA’s 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260
- Beyond3D: NVIDIA GT200 GPU and Architecture Analysis
- PCGH: GT200 Review: CPU scaling of the Geforce GTX 280
- Neoseeker: Initial testing and impressions of the GTX 280
- Benchmark Reviews: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Review
- nV News: GeForce GTX 280 Review
- HotHardware: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 Unleashed
- [H]Enthusiast: BFG Tech GeForce GTX 280 OC & GTX 260
- Hardware Canucks: EVGA GeForce GTX 280 1GB Superclocked Edition Review
- Overclock3D: NVIDIA GTX 280 Performance Revealed – MSI N280GTX
- Fudzilla: MSI N9800 GX2 1GB does a great job
- TweakTown: ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 AMP! Edition
- Overclockers Club: XFX GTX 280 Review
- Bjorn3d: XFX GTX 280: A Preview of What’s to Come
- RBMODS: Asus GTX260 and GTX280 Videocard Preview
- TweakTown: GeForce GTX 280 with QX9650 at 4GHz
- [H]Enthusiast: NVIDIA Dictates Advertised Video Card Pricing
- NordicHardware: NVIDIA to use 55nm G92 to fight RV770, GT200 in Q3/Q4

SG Tech
- Empty Vessel: The pinnacle of PC graphics (for now)
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Help set a world record on 17 June by downloading Firefox 3
- 65Bits : Episode 75 : Firefox 2 is dead! Long Live Firefox 3!
- Ignorance is Curable: Brother HL-2170W Laser Printer – PC Show 2008
- harmless? bananas!: Brian Morgan Productions Pilot Vodcast: The Muxtape Episode
- Simple is the Reason of my Heart: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX520: My Purchase from PC Show 2008
- I.Z. Reloaded: Reserve your iPhone 3G now!
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Another thing we don’t need!
- theory.isthereason: Got MacBook Pro? Check out SanDisk’s MultiCard ExpressCard Adapter

June 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Sgpolitics: The Politics of Madness [Thanks E-Jay]
- Singapore Dissident: Singapore. My Arrest
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Understanding the Gopalan Nair Incident..
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Wednesday 11th June 2008 – Wild Goose Chase 2
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Thoughts from – Thursday 12th June 2008 – Wild Goose Chase 3
- Singabloodypore: Chee Soon Juan’s Release from Prison, June 2008
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Transcript part Vl – CSC vs LHL

Have you ever wondered why we must serve..
- Sam’s Thoughts: Does Singapore love me?
- Insane Polygons: National Service- Who Fights For the NSMan?
- Molly Meek: Specters of Unnameable Soldiers: On Necessary Deaths & Singapore’s Tragic Modernity

Fixating the Opposition
- nofearSingapore: Singapore’s 4 opposition schools- My unpublished comments
- Singapore Patriot: On opposition politicians
- A Sampan on S’pore Soil: Embracing the ‘differences’ of the opposition

Civil Disobedience & Human Rights
- The Lionheart: Disobedience for Justice
- My Singapore News: Let’s not turn human rights into a battle ground
- Siew Kum Hong: Human rights in Singapore
- Where Bears Roam Free: Human Rights – Walter Woon is commenting from a global perspective

Jailbreak Part Deux
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Escapes and Escapades
- Simply Gab: Attempted Subordinate Court Escape: Better Humans not Systems
- Unfortunately Singapore: Maximum Security Nation: Overeaction is Complacency’s Ugly Cousin

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Local vs foreign workers: Unravelling the debate

Inflation & Cost of Living
- Yawning Bread: Did unbridled capitalism leave people vulnerable to oil and food price rises?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Strange Inflation..

Daily Discourse
- TOC: University admissions, employment and help for the poor
- The boy who knew too much: Miss Singapore Universe Beauty Pageant: an end?
- Mr Wang Says So: If A Very Sick Man Was About to Die, Wouldn’t You Help To Let His Mother Know?
- e pur si muove: ICA Fails.. Again
- TOC: Religion and the right not to respect it
- Sg_Ljers: Singapore man with armpit fetish gets 14 years’ jail, caning

Life, the universe and everything
- My Game of Life: A Dream Lost
- the(new)mediaslut: Cutie pie wins Miss Siloso HotBod 2008

June 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Miki Fujimoto 藤本美贵 was a sixth generation leader of the popular Japanese pop group Morning Musume, before she left in 2007 to sing solo. Fujimoto possesses an extensive fan base, which includes a group of people call “Mowota”, an abbreviation of Morning Musume Otaku, who literally worship her. Alo-Hello! is Fujimoto’s first solo photobook.

Pictures after the break.
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June 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

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June 15th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

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June 14th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (6)

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Press statement by Singapore Dissident
- Yawning Bread: Gopalan Nair’s quickie press conference
- TOC: Gopalan Nair denies charges
- Sheep City: This is what you get
- TOC: Human Rights activists – a bunch of ‘fanatics’?
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: CSJ probably deserved the contempt charges

Have you ever wondered why we must serve..
- My Singapore News: What is National Service?
- utopia: NS is killing SG
- My Sketchbook: Death in the army

Human Rights
- SG Human Rights: SG Human Rights is no more

Singapore is clean and green. Truly?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: “Go green when convenient, but otherwise do whatever that makes or saves you the most money”

Daily Discourse
- The boy who knew too much: No freedom to play
- A Serial Number on my Vote: Transparency versus Trust
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Justice for a victim, but many molesters go scot-free
- SingaporeSurf: What Kind Of Government Do You Want?
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: Storm in a Teacup – Over Endoh’s Post
- Cowboy Caleb: The Difference Between A Malaysian & A Singaporean (Part 1)
- SgForums: Tharman says S’pore not headed for a recession
- HWZ: Survey finds Singaporeans generally happy

Life, the universe and everything
- Rambling Librarian: Encyclopaedia Britannica goes “Wiki”, but not quite
- ALVINOLOGY: Who is Xiaoyun from Sichuan?
- the(new)mediaslut: Ping.sg polices commercial and critical blogs; NSFW blog runs free

Infoblogoramus
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Missing grandfather has passed on..

June 13th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Grace Park is an American-Canadian actress of Korean descent. She is best known as Sharon Valerii (and the various iterations of Number Eight, a humanoid Cylon) on Battlestar Galactica. Park broke into film with a small role in the Jet Li movie Romeo Must Die. In the few years following, she appeared in episodes of The Outer Limits, Beyond Belief, Dark Angel, The Immortal and Stargate SG-1. She was also in 2007′s Command & Conquer 3: Tiberian Wars as GDI Lt. Sandra Telfair. Park holds a degree in psychology and speaks English, Korean, some French, Spanish and Cantonese. She was named #81 in Maxim Online’s 2006 Hot 100 List.

Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]
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June 13th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (3)

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Article 14: What can I say? (without being charged?)
- Sgpolitics.net: Chia Ti Lik: A rebuttal to PAP media crucifixion of Dr Chee Soon Juan

NKF Closure?
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: So, what must our Ministers do to get punished?
- No Buns No Life: T.T. Durai 3 months sentence, Fair?

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Singapore’s Healthcare System

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- URBANRANT: This Lee allows protests
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Top-level honour in Korea; top-level shruggin-of-shoulders in S’pore

Housing
- Simply Jean: Property prices down, but too poor now to buy it

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Shouldn’t MINDEF be more transparent about servicemen deaths?
- Military Life: Duty, honour, and death for the motherland
- Asia Times: Clouds over Singapore’s blogosphere

Life, the universe and everything
- The Power of Influence: Asian and Americans see the world differently

Missing Person
- Endoh’s Dungeon: In seek of missing Grandfather

June 12th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

- Event Floor Plan: Level 4, Level 6

Laptops
- Fujitsu: Promo PDF
- Sony: VAIO promo PDF
- Compaq: Laptop & desktop Sale
- BenQ: JoyBook pricelist
- Packard Bell: EasyNote pricelist
- Truenote: Laptop pricelist
- Zepto: Laptop pricelist
- PC Dreams: Lenovo laptop trade-in offer
- Harvey Norman: LG laptop pricelist
- Asus: Laptops [1][2]
- Acer: Laptop promos

LCD Monitor
- Acer: Monitor Promo Ad scan
- Viewsonic: Promo Ad scan
- Dell: Mass Buy: Dell 2408WFP and 3008WFP at PC Show 2008
- Asus: Monitor promo [1][2]

Networking
- Linksys: Promo Ad scan
- DLink: Promo PDF
- 3com: Promo Ad scan
- Aztech: Event offers
- PCI: Networking producst pricelist
- Singnet ADSL: 8Mbps promo, 10Mbps promo
- Starhub: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC with Maxonline Express, Maxonline Premium/Ultimate, Maxonline Plus

Camera
- Sony: Cybershot, DSLR promo PDF
- Sony: Handycam promo PDF
- Canon: Camera Promo scan
- Nikon: Promo Ad scan
- Olympus: Promo Ad scan
- FujiFilm: FinePix promo Ad scan

Printer
- Canon: Printers promo [1][2]
- Fuji Xerox: Laser printers Ad scan
- Epson: Printers + Projectors

Home A/V
- JVC: LCD, camcorders promo
- Sony: Bravia promo PDF
- Sony: Home Audio, DVD Recorder promo PDF
- Sharp: Aquos Promo Ad scan
- NEC: Projector + Monitor Ad scan

Misc
- Sony: Walkman promo PDF
- Prestigio: Promo Ad scan
- Creative: Promo Ad scan [1][2][3][4]
- A.C.Ryan: Promo flyer [1] [2]
- EastGear: Vehicle LCD + misc promo PDF
- Corbell: PC Show offers

Related
- VR-Zone: Event Forum
- HWZ: Event Forum
- CNET: Star Buys from PC Show 2008

Will update as more pricelist/brouchers appear
Updated 13 Jun 2008

June 12th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- TOC: Callous labelling of mental illness smacks of gutter politics
- TOC: The integrity of the courts
- Journalism.sg: Gopalan Nair case moves media activism to a new level
- Singabloodypore: Goplan Nair likely to face four charges

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The Void Deck: Old News about the New Road Tax Regime

Human Rights
- Sgpoitics: Singapore needs human rights. We really do
- TOC: Human Rights in everyday life

Re education
- utopia: JC diploma

Pink Issues
- Sam’s thoughts: Qu(e)erying Singapore

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Public facilities need to be improved
- Simply Gab: Malaysia’s cost-cutting package: When not enough is dangerous
- Mr Wang Says So: Thinking About Critical Thinking

Life, the universe and everything
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Budget ticket no more? See the [bias?] reporting
- Anonymous_X: So what if Dawn Yang benefited by posting the false ad?
- Room full of fun: Boon Lay playground: cycling
- Singapore Complain Hub: Flipped PIN e-mail tip exposed as a myth

Infoblogoramus
- ZDNet: Highly skilled IT professionals, but paid enough? [Thanks Leslie]

June 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- The Daily Backtrack: Pseudo Freuds, all of us
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Transcript part V : CSJ vs LKY
- My sketchbook: Chua Lee Hong and her article

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The States Times: The Great Singapore Tax Saving

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: OK, I’ll be good
- National Center for Policy Analysis: The Singapore Model

Daily Discourse
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The removal of Estate Duty – Snippets from inside the Court
- Under the Willow Tree: Temasek’s Hands in Too Many Pies
- The Bosonic State: A Case of Similar Attractions
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Singapore Government needs better HR management
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Who is better for Singapore?
- Yawning Bread: Pity that Youthquake 2 didn’t make it to the Richter scale
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Singtel’s – Optus’ marketing ploy exposed (and a brief history of Singapore Government’s Corporations’ negative influence in the region)

Life, the universe and everything
- The Void Deck: Flash: Discrimination at St James Power Station, so go there for f*ck?

@vinyard: read too much no time to write liao >.<

June 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Official Specs: Apple3G

iPhone3G Launched
- SiliconValley: 3G iPhone will be available next month for $199
- WIRED: Gallery: The iPhone 2.0 Keynote
- Crave: iPhone 3G First Take
- CrunchGear: With iPhone 3G official, we ask: what about the jailbreaking community?
- CIO: Apple IPhone Faces Challenges in Enterprise Bid
- Gearlog: Apple’s New Business Model is AT&T’s Old Business Model
- PC World: 8 Unanswered Questions About Apple’s 3G iPhone
- Yahoo Tech: Is the new iPhone really cheaper?
- PC World: Five Reasons to Buy the Apple iPhone 3G
- ExtremeTech: Ten Reasons Why I Won’t Buy the 3G iPhone
- CRN: Analysis: Apple’s MobileMe Will Crush Microsoft and Google (If it Works)
- Tom’s Guide: Apple WWDC Vs. Microsoft TechEd: The Duel Of The Conferences
- Computerworld: FAQ: Meet the new iPhone 3G

Reviews
- Hardware Canucks: Samsung SyncMaster 305T 30” LCD Monitor Review
- TweakTown: Inno3D GeForce 9600GT iChill Hurricane
- DriverHeaven: Everglide DKTBoard
- BurnOutPC: Razer Destructor
- TheTechLounge: Logitech MX Air Cordless Mouse
- ExtremeTech: The Budget Gamer: The LAN Party PC
- Phoronix: Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared

Tech News
- HWZ: PC Show 2008 Preview
- VR-Zone: RV770 Launch On 25th June, Clocks Finalized
- PCZILLA: GTX280 CRYSIS 1920*1200 VH Average FPS Reached to 36.81!
- DigiTimes: LCD panel makers developing 17.3-inch, 16:9 notebook panels
- TG Daily: Blu-ray player prices showing signs of downward trend
- Digiex: Creative Audigy Series Vista 32bit (x86) and Vista 64bit (X64) Drivers By Daniel_k

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: Checking in on LiveNewsCameras.com..
- 65bits: 65Bits Episode 74: Netbooks galore
- HWZ: Singnet MIO vs Starhub Maxoline Pros and cons

June 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

MadMen, Stooges and the Near-Psychopath
- Singapore Patriot: Judging the judiciary
- Yawning bread: The Singapore Democratic Party: method or madness?
- TOC: The phoney war
- Sgpolitics: Ms Chua Lee Hoong, why do you even bother?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Chua Lee Hoong : Chee is nuts!
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Will the real psychopath please stand up?
- TOC: Character assassination of the most uncharitable kind
- Feed Me To The Fish: What Utter Rubbish!
- Sheep City: Are you mental?
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Chua Lee Hoong’s a sorry excuse for a journalist
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: ST Forum : Chee’s Potshot at Govt diminish our reputation!
- Nomed Letters: “Moral” Authority
- nofearSingapore: What think ye of SDP?
- Sgpolitics: Activists sing “We Shall Overcome” outside Queenstown Remand Prison
- ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace): Freedom of Expression in Singapore vs. Sri Lanka
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: The Chees vs. The Lees
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Transcript part lll : CSJ vs LKY

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- The boy who knew too much: What kind of country is this?
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: The Real Reason Why I’m Getting A Car
- Simply Jean: The message in papers today: Take public transport (or at least leading to that)

MSK Fallout
- Die neue Welle: “Don’t Rock the Boat!”

Re education
- Fearfully Opinionated: teacher tells student to get tuition: what’s really happening?

Housing
- Enblocing Singapore: Every Building Tells a (Hi)story

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Transparency – more or less?
- Yawning Bread: We duds at the pinnacle of evolution
- The-Upperroom.com: My heart saddens..
- utopia: Singapore: an Asian country with no Asian values
- The Itch to Write: Simple analogy on how tax-reduction are not helping the poor

Infoblogoramus
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Short Films Selections of Boo Junfeng

June 9th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Ryoko Tanaka (田中涼子) from the Osaka Prefecture, is a race queen and a gravure model managed by k-point talent agency. Pictures after the break. [NSFW]

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June 9th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (2)

Surely this is approved. I am not a Singapore registered car!
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June 7th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

“What are you going to do about it?”
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Gopalan Nair Released from custody
- Article 14: A Folly and a Freedom
- A Serial Number on my Vote: when is enough enough?
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: How to avoid being convicted of sedition
- The States Times: The Real Taste of Freedom
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: Libel and Defamation in Singapore
- Mollymeek: Super Duper Logic!
- UncleYap: Day 2 & Changi Womens’ Prison Vigil & Day 3 morning
- VR-Zone: Gopalan Challenges Lee & Son To Sue Him
- Sgforum: The Culture of Fear and Selfish Existence in our society

VueStar Patent
- RefuteVueStarPatent: An official reply from IPOS

MSK Fallout
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: 06Jun08

CPF
- Feed Me To The Fish: Challenging decisions made by the Authorities? Are you kidding Mr Michael Hwang?

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- A long and arduous road of an entrepreneur: Can LTA Wake Up Their Idea?

Singaporeans pay, Foreigners free
- HWZ: FT first, Singaporean dogs

Daily Discourse
- The Legal Janitor: Follow the money
- Darth Grievous’ Dark Domain: An Uneducated View on Current Events (I)
- EDMW: MM LEE : democracy is not a prerequisite for growth

Life, the universe and everything
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: NBA Preview
- The fire in my life: Red Platinum: The newest fad?

June 6th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (9)