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Daily SG: 19 Mar 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 19th March 2009

Town Council 8 Month Bonuses
- SingapuraKini: News Blackout [Thanks Singapura kini]
- Wayang Party: Open letter to Dr Teo Ho Pin re: Creative shares purchased by Holland-Bukit Panjang Town Council and staff bonuses
- My sketchbook: Taxpayers’ money

Recession
- The Itch to Write: After Jobs Credit Scheme was introduced…

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Lianain Films: First World, Third World
- Lianain Films: Seriously Depressing

The Aftermath of the NTU Passings
- Geekonomics: Setting the records straight
- Singapore Enquirer: NTU Prof dispels rumours

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Sgpolitics.net: The Internet and Opposition Politics
- Singapore Enquirer: Government increasingly forced to respond to anonymous bloggers

If newspapers die..
- Kaffein-nated: Sheer genius, or complete dodo

The Gospel of Harry | Dialects are for Stupids
- Desparatebeep: Why Limit Learning?

Lee vs Rag-and-Bone Man
- Wayang Party: Phone threats a non-seizable offence: case of double standards?

Lee vs Chee
- Chia Ti Lik’s Blog: Courage, gall, guts and balls - In celebration of all things daringly Singaporean

Hsien and Thein: An Orchid for a Dictator
- Seelan Palay: Singaporean activists protest against naming of Orchid after Burmese General
- My sketchbook: Orchid named after Myanmar PM-Dendrobium Thein Sein

Healthcare
- ~eternalhap~: A look at S’pore’s Healthcare: Part 2

Daily Discourse
- the kent ridge common: Singapore Education: Why underdogs and late bloomers have the better end of the bargain
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: The Merlion is Back
- Carpe Diem: Should we be searching for Singapore’s soul? (Part 1)

Life, the universe and everything
- Singapore Entrepreneurs: How To Handle Negative Media Coverage [Thanks Bernard]
- Ian On The Red Dot: My One Shorter Than Your One. Actually, No Lah… Same Length
- The fire in my Life: It just does not make sense with Advertlets! [Thanks Joel]
- TOC: Undergraduate battles ALL with a smile

The Arts, Film and Music
- Hard Hitting in the Lion City: Review of Watchmen

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Daily Tech: 19 Mar 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 19th March 2009

Tech News
- Crave: Is a 9-inch Adamo in Dell’s future?
- Guardian: Apple’s new G3 Shuffle creates minor controversy
- Engadget: Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
- DailyTech: Apple Reveals It Intentionally Crippled Bluetooth in iPod touch 2G
- OCHeaven: The Rumor has ended. AMD unveiled Radeon HD4890
- Fudzilla: Microsoft ‘Office 14′ to launch in early March 2010
- VNUnet: Google takes Chrome back into beta
- ExtremeTech: Catalyst 9.3 Unifies Vista, Win7 Driver Release
- TweakTown: Sneaky trick enables SLI on non-SLI motherboard
- DigiTimes: Atom processors to account for more than 50% of entry level desktop sales by end of 2009
- SlashGear: Ericsson looking to sell Sony Ericsson cellphone share?
- Techware Labs: What the OLPC project is screwing up and how to not be the next Newton
- Nigel Dessau: ..the industry needs another test to measure battery life.

Reviews | Guides
- Engadget: iPhone OS 3.0 hands-on!
- PC World: Hands On With Dell Adamo Notebook
- Crave: Hands-on with the Dell Adamo
- The Washington Post: Hands On With the Dell Adamo
- ExtremeTech: Windows 7 vs. Vista Graphics Performance
- Overclockers Club: HTPC Guide
- Benchmark Reviews: Best CPU Cooler Performance LGA1366 - Q1 2009
- Phoronx: File-System Benchmarks On The Intel X25-E SSD
- MadShrimps: AMD Phenom II In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis

SG Tech
- Tech65: 65Bits Episode 110 : Yaaaahooooooooo
- Techgoondu: First looks - HTC Touch Diamond 2

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