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Daily SG: 15 Dec 2008

Posted by singaporedaily on 15th December 2008

Town Councils Lose $12M Public Funds
- TOC: The art of passing the buck

High Notes and Minibombs
- Sgpolitics.net: Tan Kin Lian gives update on class action lawsuit and speaks about another flawed financial product
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Speaker Corner, 13 Dec 2008 Speech by TKL
- Singapore Enquirer: Mr Tan Kin Lian’s speech at Hong Lim Park, 13 December 2008
- Singapore Enquirer: Mr Tan Kin Lian’s interview with Al-Jazeera on 13 December 2008

Hong Lim Park: 13 Dec 2008 - Minimum Wage
- Singapore Alternatives: Human Rights - Minimum Wage & Modern Slavery
- TOC: No salary increase for part-time workers in 9 years?

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- The Void Deck: PAP Engagement in the Internet: Beyond Counter-Insurgency
- TOC: Youth Focus: Don’t govern the Internet with Old World methods

Recession
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Reuters : Singapore to be Asia’s worst performing economy next year…
- My sketchbook: Magic pills for recession

Censorship and Pink Issues
- Illusio: The conservative case for: Rejecting Focus on the Family Singapore
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Can activists avoid being active?

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60th Anniversary
- Random Thoughts Of A Freedom Thinker: A Universal Declaration of Human Responsibilities (proposed)

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics.net: An open letter to Shafi’ie’s Mom

Power to Cost the People
- Choosing my own adventure: “Extraordinary profits” (cackle cackle) [Editor's note: Blog has since been deleted]
- My Little Corner: Little Information on Singapore Electricity Tariffs

Healthcare
- TOC: “Don’t save face, go to C-class wards,” says Tan Kin Lian

Housing
- My sketchbook: Price of HDB flats in Singapore

Daily Discourse
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: the not-so-obvious motives of having more foreigners
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Reply from Singapore authorities on their Israeli delegation trip
- ed’sperience: on Multiracialism as a stepping stone: Singaporean Malays using more English than mother tongue
- Singapore Skeptic: Sometimes people deserve to remain poor
- The Itch To Write: Latest list of public places where smoking is banned

Life, the universe and everything
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Do you represent me… really?
- Mindblogging Stuff: Spell-check please!
- NO BUNS NO LIFE: (NSFW) PICTURES of Nude Virgin Mary on Playboy Mexico causes UPROAR

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Daily Tech: 2008 Holiday Buying Guides

Posted by singaporedaily on 15th December 2008

Reviews | Guides
- PC Mag: Holiday Gift Guide 2008
- Ars Technica: The Ars Technica Holiday Gift Guide 2008
- CNET: Holiday Gift Guide 2008
- Tom’s Hardware: Tom’s Holiday Buyer’s Guide 2008
- Techspot: TechSpot Holiday Gift Guide 2008
- Geek.com: 2008 Geek.com Holiday Buying Guide
- 1UP: Holiday Gift Guide 2008
- Gamespot: Best Games of 2008 Preliminaries
- Digital Trends: Holiday Guide: Gifts for the Whole Family
- Anandtech: Jasper Is Here: A Look at the New Xbox 360
- [OC]ModShop: Verbatim Tuneboard Speaker
- Bjorn3d: Antec Skeleton Case
- Frostytec: Frostytech’s TOP 141 Intel LGA775 Heatsinks - December 2008
- Computerworld: Which operating system is best for solid-state drives?

Tech News
- TG Daily: Google Chrome is not ready for prime time
- Wordpress: WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane”
- Ynetnews: Dell customer awarded Windows refund
- TechPowerUp: Seagate Lowers Warranty Period from 5 to 3 Years on Some Desktop Hard Drives
- The Inquirer: ATI’s HD 49×0 coming soon-ish
- TweakTown: ASUS nails TrueHD and DTS-HD MA bitstream on the PC
- Phoronix: Intel Atom On Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Mandriva
- COSMOS: Birth of the Moon: a runaway nuclear reaction?
- [H]Enthusiast: Every Flight On Earth in 72 Seconds

SG Tech
- HWZ: Technology Highlights from SIGGRAPH Asia 2008
- Geekonomics: Interview with Singapore’s Silicon Valley success story–Ong Peng Tsin (Part I) [Thanks Nicholas]

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