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Google has recently come out of the shack guns blazing, launching new apps and services left, right and center. Next on its list to world domination: the new Google smartphone (its a HTC Dream powered by its new mobile OS Android) was just unveiled in London.

Here’s a clearer, up close vid of Android in action (presented in May 2008).

Google Android Smartphone
- TechRadar: Google shows off final Android handset
- Smartphone.Biz.News: Launch Date Set for First Android-based Smartphone
- Forbes: What Android Will Bring
- LinuxInsider: Who Wants to Buy an Android?
- MacNewsWorld: Anticipating Android: Will It Challenge iPhone?
- eWeek: How Many Google Android-Based Dreams Will T-Mobile Sell This Year?
- eFluxMedia: Android And HTC Dream: The Dawn Of A New Era
- Tom’s Guide: Google Phone To Cost $200; Confirmed
- CrunchGear: Android: More info on the G1 [Specs]

Tech News
- Bit-tech: DirectX 11: A look at what’s coming
- Google Mobile Blog: Street View and walking directions come to Google Maps for mobile
- Crave: Creative makes multiroom wireless audio setup more affordable
- Guru 3D: ATI Catalyst 8.9 Windows XP|Vista driver Released
- ITWire: Pure Genius: How Apple is killing Windows Vista with iTunes 8
- NVIDIA: Mythbusters demonstrate the difference between a GPU and CPU [Vid]

Reviews | Guides
- HWZ: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT Roundup
- Overclockers Club: Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 Review
- JonnyGURU: Thermaltake Toughpower QFan 500W
- HardwareLogic: OCZ Alchemy Elixer Gaming Keyboard Review
- MetkuMods: MSI Star Mouse GS-501

September 18th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (2)

Fixating the Opposition
- Sgpoitics: The issue is about civil and political rights, not merely why PCF activity is different from PAP activity
- TOC: Ho Peng Kee: PCF activity different from PAP activity
- Feed Me To The Fish: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet!

Public Transport Forum at Hong Lim Park
- Gerald Giam: Improving on the Govt’s plans for public transport
- Lost in communication: Stop blogging and start doing!

We don’t need no regulation
- theory.isthereason: Beyond the Govt / Citizen Dichotomy: Our Response to AIMS

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Beautiful Monster: Sadly, Singapore

Parliament 15 Sep 2008
- Sgpolitics: Parliamentary Snapshots for 15 Sept 2008

SG Press rank 141 and falling
- Simply Gab: How Good News Becomes Bad Press

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Yawning Bread: Occluded by the Merrill Lynch headlines, an Indonesian riddle

AIA in Trouble
- Extreme Prejudice: AIA: Damage Control
- EDMW: [AIA] Email from my AIA agent

Daily Discourse
- Sgpolitics: Local political films rated
- Sg_Ljers: Interesting essays on Singapore as a benevolent dictatorship
- TOC: Beyong managing homelessness

Life, the universe and everything
- Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City: Citizen Soldiers: The Unsung Pillar of the Singapore Armed Forces
- inter alia: Sad day for science: Reiss asked to quit

Infoblogoramus
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Kent Ridge Ministerial Forum 2008

September 17th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

While the Americans are thrown off guard by the bankruptcy of the Leman Brothers, here in Sg, it’s MM Lee’s birthday.

We don’t need no regulation
- TOC: Democracy and Elections: The Impact of Online Politics in Singapore
- TOC: Films of demos and assemblies approved by the authorities
- No “partisan stuff” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Short film on elderly poor rated NC16

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Serangoon Gardens vs Ethnics Integration Policy vs Foreigners commit fewer crimes

Daily Discourse
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Merrill Fire-Sale
- Extreme Prejudice 极端偏见: Glory to our Paralympic Athletes
- The Void Deck: 16 September, Political Defections and Singapore
- Vexillum II: The Cherished Right of Reply, Refused

Life, the universe and everything
- The boy who knew too much: Children at play in the modern world [Thanks Valentine]
- The fire in my life: Smells are free… [Thanks ecko as]

Freebie Goodies
- EastCoastLife: EastCoastLife is giving away a 60″ LG HD Plasma TV!! [Thanks Christopher]
- A L V I N O L O G Y: 5 pairs of Game Convetion Asia VIP passes up for grab

Tina Fey opened SNL yesterday as Sarah Palin with Hilary Clinton (Amy Poehler) – hilarious!

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September 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (15)

Tech News
- TG Daily: Taking Core to the Edge: Intel unveils 6-core Xeon CPU
- eFluxMedia: Google to Release Android “Dream” Phone
- ZDNet: Is Microsoft aiming for an early Windows 7 launch?
- BusinessWeek: End Runs Around Vista
- Tech Report: Cheap Core 2 Duo E7400 lands on October 19
- TechConnect: Western Digital releases 500GB My Passport portable hard drives
- Gadget Lab: IPhone Can Take Screenshots of Anything You Do
- InternetNews: How Will Wall Street’s Woes Affect IT?
- TorrentFreak: Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM
- 1UP: Wrath of the Lich King Releasing November 13

Reviews | Guides
- VR-Zone: de-ZEPTO-con Nox A15
- TechSpot: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro
- HWZ: Intel’s X25-M Solid State Drive Examined
- Gizmodo: HTC Touch HD, Touch 3G and Touch Viva Hands-On Impressions
- TrustedReviews: Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T77
- IGN: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning Early Start Hands-on

SG Tech
- theory.isthereason: DRM hurts the wrong people. Let’s fix it
- Ong Jiin Joo: Thoughts and tips on iPhone3G@SG
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 88 : Confucius Says..

September 16th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (1)

Public Transport Forum at Hong Lim Park
- TOC: Rethinking public transport
- TOC: Bloggers speak up against public transport shortcomings at Speakers’ Corner
- Gerald Giam: Thank you for attending TOC’s public transport forum
- Things and experiences in my life: TOC at the Speakers’ Corner TOC – Against the Public Transport Price Hike
- The Lionheart: Milestones
- Jacob’s Weblog: The “Gomez Findings” should serve as a rallying wake-up call
- TOC: Much ado about nothing, PTC?

Lee vs WSJ Asia
- Balderdash: Here we go again!
- The Void Deck: AGC and the PAP Lawsuit Machinery: By the Pricking of My Thumb..
- Jacob’s Weblog: Singapore government’s two-pronged assault on Dow Jones & Company

We don’t need no regulation
- Yawning Bread: The Mr & Mrs Tan gambit
- Just Stuff: Darth Vader is in the mood for love – A Study in the Art of AIMS / Part 1

Daily Discourse
- Journalism.sg: PAP dominance is impervious to alternative online content
- nofearSingapore: Village’s Valuable Valets eVicted (Letter to Forum)
- Ian On The Red Dot: To Understand Our Leaders – Read This
- The Itch to Write: On our ‘Democratic’ GRC System by WP’s MP

Life, the universe and everything
- Tribolum: Bond Free
- Right up your alley: Woohoo! More shite to watch on the Internet!

Infoblogoramus
- The one dimensional island: IPS-Law Fac forum on AIMS paper

September 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (6)

Yang Xin 杨欣 is a Chinese actress from Shandong province 山东. She began her career as a model after winning a major modeling contest in 1995 before becoming an actress. She rose to fame playing leading and supporting roles in many Chinese TV serials and films such as Cell Phone 《手机》 and Big Shot’s Funeral 《大腕》. Pictures after the break. [PNSFW]

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September 15th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (4)

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September 13th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Toadjuice: Dear Political Correspondents, why take the moral high ground on Serangoon Gardens?
- Extreme Prejudice: On Foreign Worker Dormitories..
- Figurativelyspeaking: Are we an elitist society?
- Memories of Mattemma: who decides whose dreams are more important?
- For What It’s Worth: township is not a good word

Hong Lim Park
- Singapore Alternatives: My Maiden Speech at Hong Lim Park

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: Fare increase not fair to lower income

Singaporeans a dying breed
- Yawning Bread: 150,000 Singaporeans live abroad

Press Rank 147th and falling
- BHP: TOC’s “Straits Times denies bloggers right of reply” [A response to comment #25]

Daily Discourse
- Singapore Life and Times: Para Vic
- Sgpolitics: Childcare centre tries to profit from subsidy meant for parents
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: S’pore govt u-turn about giving away money for free. A spade by any other name is still a spade….
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: “The Abortion Ethics Debate” — Brief Summary & Personal Afterthoughts

Life, the universe and everything
- vinyarb: we’re still alive, but its not over
- Nomadism: Useless Singapore standard chartered bank customer service

Infoblogoramus
- Singapore Indian Voice: One Nation Under Lee screening in JB

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

Miho Yoshioka (吉岡美穂) is a gorgeous Japanese actress and race queen model. She started her career as a race queen. She has appeared on countless magazine covers and serveral idol gravure books. She then branched into acting and appeared on 7 Japanese TV shows, one Godzilla movie and many television commercials [NSFW].

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September 12th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (1)

Singapore Biennale 2008 starts today! The event ends on 16 Nov 2008

Fixing the Opposition
- Gerald Giam: Police: Stop justifying the unjustifiable
- Simply Gab: Two Hats, Same Story
- Sgpolitics.net: Singapore’s political system should do more than evolve — it should undergo fundamental change

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- My sketchbook : As the urban planners debate on where to build the town…

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: The Pincer Movement on Chee Siok Chin

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Sam’s thoughts: Bridging a transgender divide

Healthcare
- Angry Doctor: Pain in the neck

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: PTW: Union leader and MP and also board member of transport company?

Daily Discourse
- Singabloodypore: Singapore Slips to 4th In Asia Managers Pay Rankings
- theory.isthereason: Interview with ex-Singabloodypore writer: Jonathan Chong

Life, the universe and everything
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Yesterday’s Stone, Tomorrow’s Source of Knowledge & Power?
- Cooler Insights: Here’s What You Get for $50,000…
- Singapore Complain Hub: Seat belt good addition on bus…But…
- A L V I N O L O G Y: That’s my MacDonald?
- Majulah Singapura: Redi Star – The Station That Plays Your Music

Infoblogoramus

7 years ago today, 2 planes crashed into WTC. Lives were lost. George Bush segregated the world into 2 parts. The world was either with them or with the terrorists. He waged his War on Terror and more blood was shed. The perpetrator is still not caught. Sincerest regards to the families of the victims.

In retrospect, the Bush administration never did take up any responsibility. For 7 years, their fingers remain pointed at the terrorists. The terrorists were accountable, they said.

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September 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (6)

Tech News
- DigiTimes: AMD to launch new GPUs this month and 45nm CPUs by the end of 2008
- Hexus: Microsoft launches BlueTrack mice, bids farewell to laser
- HWZ: Sony Ericsson Announces Launch Dates for XPERIA X1
- Slashdot: IE8 Beta 2 Fatter Than Firefox and XP
- Wired: First Beam Circles Large Hadron Collider Track

Reviews | Guides
- Macworld: First look: Fourth-generation iPod nano
- Pocket-lint: Apple iPod touch (2nd Gen) – First Look review
- Gadget Lab: Hands-On with the iPod Touch 2.1 Update
- HotHardware: ATI Radeon HD 4670, Redefining The Mainstream
- PCGH: adeon HD 4670 and HD 4650
- PC Mag: Apple iTunes 8
- TechRadar: Hands on: Microsoft Arc mouse review

SG Tech
- HWZ: Gemalto Powers World First SIM-Based Mobile TV Trial in Singapore
- the(new)mediaslut: CNET Asia launches swanky new TV site
- The eOK .network: Playing with new snaps

September 11th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Frontline: Growing Up Online

On the subject of protecting the young on the Internet, Frontline’s documentary Growing Up Online tries to explore the Internet teen culture and the gap between parents and teens in the US. If you are interested in these issues, I recommend you watch it. Some thoughts after watching it:

- The impact of the Internet on us will be akin to how popular music changed the world in the past. Pop culture is so infused in our lifes today we think nothing of its ubiquity. Internet Social Networking is the new Rock N Roll.

- In pop music, trends change and evolve. From rock n roll to rock, punk, disco, electronica, metal, grunge, R&B, rap and now hip hop. It will be the same for Internet culture.

- Teens, parents and the authorities all have different views about the dangers on the Internet. Teach both parents and teens about the potential dangers of sharing personal information online. Restrictions/bans don’t work. The best way to tackle these issues is still the parent-child unit.

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Fixing the Opposition
- this lush garden within: Is the SPF being partisan?
- a blog @ Singapore: Cycling around the point
- Feed Me To The Fish: Whiter Than White Charity or Conflict of Interest?
- mrbrown: PAP Community Foundation is not a political party

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- TOC: Serangoon Gardens – foreign attitudes

Lee vs Chee
- Singapore Indian Voice: Gopalan Nair pleads Not Guilty and Steven McDermott’s commentary

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: PTW: From third world to first
- Sgpolitics.net: SDP’s policy paper on Land Transport

Daily Discourse
- The Void Deck: Gahment Tekan Valet Parking Entrepooners
- Yawning Bread: Between cowardice and the rule of law
- Desparatebeep: The Problem with Knowledge
- the(new)mediaslut: Update: MY Mercedes robbers hit SG Ferrari couple

Infoblogoramus
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Coffee Talk With George” 2008

September 10th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (3)

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Singapore Life and Times: Schizophrenic
- Chemical Generation Singapore: Barbarians at the Gate
- A Partisan Guy: Who should take “The Blame”?
- The one dimensional island: Myopia and its related illnesses
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Time to Reclaim More Land
- My Singapore News: Different interpretation of Serangoon Garden Incident

Censorship and Pink Issues
- nofearSingapore: Ho Kwon Ping speaks out ! More prominent Singaporeans should follow lead
- Sgpolitics.net: Two issues surrounding the Rule of Law in Singapore are cause for concern

Fixing the Opposition
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Police jutifies why PAP can cycle while WP couldn’t. Do they still think S’poreans are morons?

Lee vs Chee
- Singapore Indian Voice: Conflicting information from IMH about M Ravi

Press Rank 147th and falling
- TOC: Straits Times denies bloggers right of reply
- Sgpolitics.net: Rejected ST Letter: Blogger’s do not advocate “near free-for-all”

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: PTW Week: The private public transport

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore and the stuff: Drink driving

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

THE END IS NEIGH! In less than 24 hours At 15:15 SGT 10 Sep 2008, scientists from CERN will attempt to activate the Large Hadron Collider and open a Stargate which will set off an imminent alien invasion. That’s if the thing doesn’t accidentally generate a black hole and wipe Earth off the interplanetary map first. Those hours you put in Doom and Halflife have finally paid off.

This is what wiki has to say about the doomsday device:

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of 7 TeV protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics. When activated, it is theorized that the collider will produce the elusive Higgs boson, the observation of which could confirm the predictions and missing links in the Standard Model of physics and could explain how other elementary particles acquire properties such as mass.

Look, if that doesn’t speel Black Hole PWNZerator I don’t know what does. To watch this history ending event, tune in to the live webcast here.

Tech News
- TG Daily: LHC is most definitely a ticking time bomb, or not
- Roy Terse: Scientists hope for surprises in Big Bang experiment
- Cosmic Log: Totally Fictional Doomsday
- Digitimes: AMD to launch two low-power desktop CPUs for low-cost PC market in November
- Fudzilla: Nvidia mobile issue is not as bad
- GPU Cafe: PhotoShop CS4 unveiling set for September 23

Reviews | Guides
- HotHardware: Intel X25-M 80GB SATA Solid State Drive, Intel Ups The Ante
- Madshrimps: ATI HD Radeon 4850 vs NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GTX
- TweakTown: ASUS EPU 6 vs. MSI DrMOS vs. GIGABYTE DES Advanced
- Bit-tech: Google Chrome Shiny, but not polished
- Techware Labs: Lite-On Blu-Ray Disc Player
- Phoronix: Razer Lachesis 4000DPI Mouse
- Techgage: Fall Processor Pricing – Finding the Best Bang for the Buck

SG Tech
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 87 : Hadouken!

September 9th, 2008 | Category: Daily Tech | Comments (11)

We don’t need no regulation
- Singapore Patriot: e-Engagement – A paradigm shift needed
- Feed Me To The Fish: Is it Lightening Up or Bo Pian? (No Choice?)
- Choongyong.com: Nothing but the truth?
- Just Stuff: The Cognitive Dissonance That Lacks AIMS – An Interview With the ASDF / Part 2

Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Foreign Workers try to land in Serangoon Gardens Part [1][2]
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Minister George Yeo says “Townships in S’pore”. Have we learnt nothing from apartheid in South Africa??
- Sgpolitics: Serangoon Gardens and Foreign Workers: The problem is with a Government that has over-extended itself
- My sketchbook: “Anywhere BUT near us” mentality

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Singaporeans, take responsibility!

GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Sg_Ljers: Merrill Lynch and Temasek

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- TOC: TOC’s Public Transport Week – with event at Hong Lim Park

Lee vs Nair
- Singapore Dissident: Convicted

Blog Awards
- Cooler Insights: Celebrities Galore @ Omy Blog Awards
- eastcoastlife: eastcoastlife lost – PhotoHunt
- ALVINOLOGY: Results for the first Singapore Blog Awards

Daily Discourse
- For Want of a Better Title: Did the PAP break the law?
- The Rot Within: Way to mismanage HR
- nofearSingapore: Response to my posts on National Service
- The Itch To Write: My opinion on Single mums
- Bear’s Den: Singapore – more an economy than a nation or a state?
- Jacob’s weblog: Pressure Builds on Singapore’s System – FEER

Life, the universe and everything
- Cowboy Caleb: How to be an irritating Singaporean blogger
- blankanvas: The irritating singaporean blogger
- The eOK .network: Is pitching to bloggers just a fad?

Infoblogoramus
- Singabloodypore: New Report on Workers’ Rights in Singapore
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Reel Horizons Series I: “The Abortion Ethics Debate”

September 8th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

The finalists for Miss Maxim 2008. Pictures after the break.

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September 8th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

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September 6th, 2008 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Comments (1)

We don’t need no regulation
- Just Stuff: The Cognitive Dissonance That Lacks AIMS – A Strategic Analysis / Part 1
- My Singapore News: The AIMS Paper
- The one dimensional island: Aiming too far ahead?

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Singapore Patriot: Get out of my elite neighbourhood

Jurong By-elections
- Yawning Bread: In Jurong GRC, more wanted a by-election than not

Burma Protests
- Singapore Indian Voice: Burmese in India protest against Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Obama’s wrong values..
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Make it Legal
- Jacob’s Weblog: Text of Dr Chee’s speech at the launch of his new book, A Nation Cheated

Life, the universe and everything
- Sounds From The Dungeon: Improving SBS Transit’s iris NextBus
- Vinyarb: In the army.. [Thanks Riley Kim]

September 5th, 2008 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (6)

I’ve been told that Booth Babes is wrong and the proper term is Trade Show Models. So here they are, the Trade Show Models at the recent Comex 2008. Pictures after the break. [That's such a mouthful, Tech Chiobus can?]

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September 5th, 2008 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (7)