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Daily SG: 19 Jan 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 19th January 2009

Tougher Protest Laws | WKS\MSK Saga
- Groundnotes: Home Team serves Red Herring Special
- Information Read By Me: There is no Spoon Nor is there a Tap [Thanks Jabber]
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: He’s here or not here
- Signorekai on earth: About civil disobedience and million dollars peanuts

Recession
- Yawning Bread: Are our economic priorities right?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Nasty surprise for Singapore oddly comforting
- The Wayang Party Club: Solidarity for the PAP and its cronies, enslavement for ordinary Singaporeans

High Notes and Minibombs
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Structured Products : 54% of investors to be compensated!
- The Wayang Party Club: Myth or reality: FIs have handled minibond-complaint process “well”
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Complaint on mis-selling of CLN

Strangers In a Strange Land
- Sgpolitics: Government’s pledge to protect foreign workers’ rights should go beyond mere empty talk
- Singapore Social Activist: I Have Never Even Seen A Ship in Singapore!

MP Burnt
- The Wayang Party Club: Fire attack on MP draws more amusement than outrage from netizens
- The Void Deck: MP Seng Flamed Again and Again

Have you ever wondered why we must serve
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: What do Eugenics, law of comparative advantage and forced conscription have in common?
- The boy who knew too much: Why National Service men should not be insured

Time to Cast our Vote?
- A writer’s blog: Why is everyone talking about elections?

Re Education
- Mr Wang Says So: A Song & Dance About CCAs

We Don’t Need no Regulation
- Just Stuff: Why MICA needs a ray gun to win the internet war – The perils of using old solutions to solve a new problem [PART I][Part II]

Daily Discourse
- Gerald Giam: Govt should not respond to only views it can control
- Cavalierio: ST & Films Act | Grammar & grey areas
- Illusio: A parable and lesson for the whiteshirts
- Desparatebeep: The Problem with being Brilliant
- Just Stuff: What’s Holding Back Change? - You!
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Human Rights Watch’s Report 2009: Singapore remains an authoritarian state
- Yawning Bread: The pretty boy barber

Life, the universe and everything
- The Fire in my Life: A dish for your lunar New Year [Thanks Joel]

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Daily Tech: 19 Jan 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 19th January 2009

Tech News
- Wolfe’s Den: Windows 7 Beta Install Hints At Microsoft’s Planned Ship Date
- Techgoondu: Sony Ericsson launches music kiosks with DRM-free songs
- HWZ: Dell Unveils Dell Studio XPS 16 and XPS 13 Laptops
- Futurelooks: CES 2009 - MSI Unveils the X320 “MacBook Air Clone” Netbook
- Bloomberg: Intel Will Sell Hard Drives With Double the Capacity
- AnandTech: CES 2009 - Cases, Coolers, and Power Supplies
- ThinkComputers: CES 2009: Razer Mamba
- ZeroDay: 3.5m hosts affected by the Conficker worm globally
- Daily Tech: Chinese Government to Require MMO Players to Register Their Real Names
- CVG: British Fantasy author behind new Doom 4
- Fudzilla: Windows XP to live to 2010+

Reviews | Guides
- Bit-Tech: First Look: Windows 7 Beta Performance
- TweakTown: Windows 7 BETA vs Windows Vista SP1 SSD Performance Compared
- HWZ: Cementing First Place - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
- PC Advisor: Dell Studio XPS 16 review
- InsideHW: Logitech Squeezebox Boom
- [H]Enthusiast: Ask an Intel Solid State Drive Engineer
- TestFreaks: Apple iPod Nano 4th Generation Case Comparison Roundup - 9 Compared

SG Tech
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Dee Becareful when registering a “Top Level Domain”
- Tech65: 65bits Episode 102Plus: Alternate TLDs and Willy Foo

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