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Daily SG: 31 Jul 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 31st July 2008

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- EastStop: Temasek has learnt its lesson well

Daily Discourse
- The Void Deck: Petrol Price Lagi Loh Man! CNG How?
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Worst habits in Singapore
- My Singapore News: The growing dependency syndrome
- Sam’s thoughts: From the white to the red side of Hougang
- Sgpolitics.net: Just received the lift upgrading election carrot

Life, the universe and everything
- Majulah Singapura: Comiqs NDP 2008 Contest
- My Very Own Glob: Would you like fries with that?

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Daily Tech: 31 Jul 08

Posted by singaporedaily on 31st July 2008

Tech News
- [H]Enthusiast: 3G iPhones Prone To Cracking?
- PC Perspective: How NVIDIA will Invade and Change the Apple MacBook Line this Year
- Hexus: Dell reported to be testing a new MP3 player
- Engadget: Leaked Eee PC roadmap shows 23 models, redefines brand dilution
- DigiTimes: Nvidia to launch 55nm GeForce 9500 GT GPU in 4Q08
- Geek.com: Freecom release world’s smallest 2.5″ external hard drive

Reviews | Guides
- VR-Zone: Advanced Overclocking Championship 08 Field Report Day 1
- Benchmark Reviews: Acer AL2002W 20-Inch WS LCD Monitor
- HotHardware: Dell XPS M1730 Gaming Notebook
- BCCHardware: iPod Touch Air Jacket
- Tom’s Guide: iPhone 3G’s Entourage: Cases and More : A Question of Taste
- Icrontic: The ugly story of Microsoft and Yahoo

SG Tech
- The eOK .network: Cuil is pretty darn… urm… cool

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Daily SG: 30 Jul 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 30th July 2008

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Another quarter; another loss
- e pur si muove: Some good Temasek news
- TOC: Merrill Lynch
- SPUG: Haiz… SG Investment really down & under

43 years, from nation to multinational
- This lush garden within: 2 more weeks to National Day… where are all the flags?

Prosperity versus individual rights. Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore
- Just Stuff: When All Fails, Throw in the Joker! – A Study in Conspiracy Theories

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Simply Jean: Going down: Petrol and diesel prices again

Inflation
- Singabloodypore: Soaring Prices Hit Singapore’s Poor

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Dumb kids spread AIDS

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Mr Wang Says So: A Personal Baby Insight From Mr Wang

Return of the JBJedi
- SgForums: Letter to PM from Mr JBJ

Life, the universe and everything
- Young Pay-And-Pay Blog: Government-owned forum tells FT to make police report against citizen
- e pur si muove: Excerpt from ‘Through a Glass Darkly’
- Cooler Insights: Merging of Mainstream and Social Media?
- Ian On The Red Dot: Women Are Dumb When They Lament The Men Don’t Get It
- theory.isthereason: Singapore Biometric Passport in hand (and how to anti-RFID it)

Infoblogoramus
- Indignation 2008: Calendar of Events

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Daily SG: 29 Jul 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 29th July 2008

Prosperity versus individual rights. Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Singapore
- TOC: A matter of intepretation
- URBANRANT :Interesting tussle between the AG and the judiciary

Having a Goh at Hougang
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: What has changed?
- My sketchbook: The amazing “broken record” man
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Government, grassroots and PAP are strange bedfellows
- SgForums: SM Goh confident PAP will eventually win back Hougang
- HWZ: SM Goh confident PAP will eventually win back Hougang

The Million Dollar Bounty for M$K
- Anonymous_X: $1M Reward for the capture of Mas Selamat Kastari & how things can go wrong

Daily Discourse
- Alamak: How to Compare Parking Charges
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Asean and Appeasement
- Mr Wang Says So: The Disease of Being Normal
- Singapore Peak Oil: Energy, Entropy, Economics, Ecology: Feedback to the Government on a Sustainable Singapore
- Yawning Bread: Escalator and other paralyses
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: On National Day, Underlying Philosophy on Migration and Helping the Poor in Singapore

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Daily Tech: Ex-Googlers Launch Cuil

Posted by singaporedaily on 29th July 2008

Tech News
- PC World: Cuil Stumbles out of the Gate
- The Industry Standard: Out of the gate, Cuil is ambitious but flawed
- TGDaily: Cuil: When your best feature becomes your worst enemy
- Time: Why Cuil is No Threat to Google
- Fudzilla: Quad core Q8200 to launch on August 31st
- CNet: Microsoft looks to ‘Mojave’ to revive Vista’s image
- InformationWeek: Get Ready For Google Gadget Malware
- Yanko Design: The Softer Side of Hard Drives
- TechConnect: GeForce 177.73 beta drivers up for grabs

Reviews | Guides
- VR-Zone: XFX GeForce GTX 280 1GB XXX: Enough to stop the competition?
- X-bit labs: New Wolfdale Processor Stepping: Core 2 Duo E8600 Review
- Digit-Life: Conroe vs. Wolfdale: To the Limit
- Legit Reviews: Part 2: Which motherboard company is more efficient, ASUS or Gigabyte?
- BCCHardware: D-Link DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router
- TrsutedReviews: Back to Blu-ray Basics
- I4U: Labyrinth Lite Edition for iPhone Review

SG Tech
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 81: A Boomy Science Centre
- Extreme Prejudice: iPhone 2.0
- ed’sperience: Why I’m returning to DSLRs - Prole Level Nikon D700
- Rambling Librarian: Press Release: Singapore Announces Ported Creative Commons licenses
- xinyun.sg: Loving It, IPhone 3G

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Daily SG: 28 Jul 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 28th July 2008

Having a Goh at Hougang
- TOC: SM Goh, please love your country more than the PAP
- Sgpolitics: Goh Chok Tong’s remarks on role of opposition raises many alarm bells
- Mollymeek: Win back Singapore
- Balderdash: Short notes on: SM Goh confident PAP will eventually win back Hougang
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SM Goh : PAP will win back Hougang..
- This lush garden within: SM Goh tells residents to check opposition’s town council accounts

43 years, from nation to multinational
- TOC: The 5 stars of our flag
- Princess from the Planet of Venupitarius: A made-in-Singapore movie to celebrate Singapore National Day NDP 2008 新加坡国庆日

Lee vs Chee
- Singabloodypore: Stanford University writes to Minister over CSC’s case
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Stanford is not a good university

Return of the JBJedi
- Jacob’s Weblog: JBJ’s interview with Malaysia’s Star
- Singapore Patriot: Past performance no guarantee of future results

Pedra Branca
- the(new)mediaslut: 12 nautical miles more, please?
- TOC: Politcal saber-rattling

Abortion
- Yawning Bread: Singapore’s religious rightwing trains its sights on abortion

Housing
- ecstasy: Housing WoesTemasek & GIC suffers over US$10 billion paper loss on bank investments

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- This lush garden within: Temasek & GIC suffers over US$10 billion paper loss on bank investments

Daily Discourse
- e pur si muove: Scholarship agencies: old hat in a global labor market
- The Rot Within: Scattered Comments on PY, A*Star and Singapore
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Organ sales and public sector salaries revisited
- My Singapore News: You are free to leave!
- Singapore Alternatives: Is PAP government FOR the People?
- Yawning Bread: Of airports, nudity and an insult to men

Life, the universe and everything
- No political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Speakers Cornered screens in public
- Cooler Insights: What Do Museums and Zouk Have in Common?

Infoblogoramus
- Notes On Serangoon Road: Launching on 16 August

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