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Daily SG: 23 Feb 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 23rd February 2009

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Singapore Alternatives: Fear and Patriotism: Another Threat to Netizens
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Minister Vivian Balakrishnan : Your anonymity is an illusion..
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Seditious Bloggers Charged to Instill Fear?
- Yawning Bread: On community moderation of internet content
- TOC: Moderating the Internet – lets hold the wild horses
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Light touch, but hey, we will prosecute you
- Singapore Dino: Vivian Balakrishnan Openly Threatens Singapore Bloggers

Elections
- The Anti Neo-Democracy Theorist: Analysis of an Impending? Election
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: General Elections 2009?
- My Thoughts: ST Going Out Of It’s Way To Bullshit The Masses?
- My Little Corner: General Elections this year?
- Singapore Alternatives: Politics 101 for the Coming General Elections

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Making History Relevant: What the Temasek debacle reveals
- Under The Willow Tree: UBS Tax Fraud Makes Lee Kuan Yew Look Like a Dufus Dumbo
- Wayang Party Club: State media’s continued silence on sensitive issues will erode its credibility further

Recession
- Balderdash: a race to the bottom
- A Lesser Mortal: Labourer Chief Plays Football With Depression [Thanks Newcomer]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore port in dire straits: Chicago Tribune

Khaw wants to ship me to another country when I get old
- TOC: Respect other people’s views - Tan Kin Lian
- A Lesser Mortal: JB Nursing Home Syndrome - Logically Illogical Logic [Thanks Newcomer]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- Petition For Fairer Transport Fares: Press Statement - Re: 4.6% Reduction in Bus & Train Fares From 1 April 2009
- Sgpolitics: The Singapore Democrats’ position paper on Land Transport
- My sketchbook: The graciousness of our transport companies

Re Education
- The Kent Ridge Common: Suggested Changes in Government Scholarship Policy [Thanks Saliency]
- The Rot Within: Public Service Message

Singaporeans, A Dying Breed
- Mathia Lee: Stayers or Quitters? (or how we deal with the system)
- The Itch To Write: What an inhuman suggestion!

Truth, Justice, and the Singapore Way
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Guantanamo in Singapore? Detention without trial as part of its criminal/legal system

Daily Discourse
- The Kent Ridge Common: Singapore’s industrial targeting policy: Is it even necessary?
- Wayang Party Club: A Singaporean’s worry for the future of his nation

Life, the universe and everything
- Midnight Monkey Monitor: Facebook And Beyond: Environmental Cyber-Advocacy in Singapore
- eastcoastlife: Dough Figure Sculpturing - WS
- Balderdash: REACH’s Twitter

Infoblogaramous
- Sg-Ljers: Win free tickets to an opera - The Tales of Hoffman
- TOC: Our thoughts are free

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Daily Tech: 23 Feb 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 23rd February 2009

Tech News
- PC Perspective: Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs
- The Circuits Blog: Intel replies to solid-state drive ’slowness’ critique
- DigiTimes: Asustek to completely phase out 8.9-inch Eee PCs in 2009, says Asia-Pacific president
- X-bit Labs: AMD’s High-Performance Graphics Update Not Expected to Radically Boost Performance
- InformationWeek: Asus May Put Android On Netbooks
- ZDNet: What do Windows 7 beta testers really want?
- VR-Zone: Creative Puts X-Fi Into Your Car
- Tom’s Hardware: UPDATE: Razer Responds to Lycosa KB Issue

Reviews | Guides
- ExtremeTech: Build a Bang for the Buck PC
- HWZ: Dell Studio XPS 1640 - The Sweet Sixteen
- Before Dark: Nvidia Driver Comparison and Analysis - 182.05 Beta vs 182.06 WHQL
- X-bit Labs: ATI Catalyst 9.2 Driver: Performance Express-Test
- Tbreak: Asus P5Q3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP @n - Intro, Specifications & Package
- [H]Enthusiast: Entry Level Power Supply Roundup
- Guru3D: ASUS Xonar Essence STX soundcard review
- Bit-tech: How TIM Works & How To Apply It Correctly
- Tom’s Hardware: 13 SDHC Memory Cards Reviewed : SD Memory Cards for Professionals
- OCModShop: Linux: A Complete Overview
- IDEO Labs: Rear-Projection TV Turned into a Multi-touch Display

SG Tech \ MISC
- Techgoondu: S$238 to S$438 for SingTel HTC Dream
- A tiny blip in the continuum: Beta testing WordPress for iPhone 1.2
- Simple is the Reason of My Heart: My Experience with TelePresence in Cisco Singapore
- Tech65: Live blogging at Singtel HTC Dream Launch

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