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Budget 2010 Debate
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim: Increase size of cohort entering local universities

Countdown to Elections
- The Temasek Review: PAP to amend constitution to increase the number of NCMPs in Parliament

Housing Singaporeans
- TOC: HDB: Homelessness due to policies? BTS better than BTO? 31,000 flats unsold, but nobody knows?
- Trapper’s Swamp: Homelessness is a policy issue

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- TOC: Why not apply ‘town council logic’ to worker wages?

Twilight in Paradise. To Live and Die in SG
- Singaporean Skeptic: PAP hides the failure of their retirement policies by passing the buck to you.

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Military Life: The Tale of the (Local) Talent [Thanks Panzer]
- Petition Online: Employ Singaporeans First! [Thanks Gilbert]

Sin City
- Singapore Dino: Al Jazeera holds debate on Singapore’s Casinos
- Global Issues: Singapore: As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
- Al Jazeera English: Singapore’s big bet [Times GMT: 12 Mar-0300hrs(+8);
13 Mar-0530,1730; 14 Mar-1130; 15 Mar-1630; 16 Mar-1430; 17 Mar-0830; 18 Mar-0630] [Thanks Gerald]

Woman No Enough
- Singapore Life and Times: Grievous Hurt
- Carpe Diem: Enough with the affairs

Lee vs Chee
- Sgpolitics.net: Sgpolitics.net salutes Tak Boleh Tahan protesters

Daily Discourse
- The Enquirer: Be careful what you wish for [Thanks Seelan]
- Zach’s Thought Blot: How Small Countries Can Take Advantage of Globalisation
- Yu-Kym’s Blog: Singapore government supports animal testing. Do you?
- My Little Corner: LTE? First Resolve the 3G problem

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Reuters: UPDATE 2-Thai Shin Corp: Temasek has no plans to sell Shin
- Reuters: Australia on top of the world for expat kids: survey
- Reuters: Scientists find “mother” of all skin cells
- BBC: The internet billionaire rich list
- NYT Automobiles: Porsche’s Stealth Debut
- Guardian Gallery: Crufts 2010: The world’s biggest dog show
- Guardian Gallery: Walking the Great Himalayan Trail
- Denver Post: The Game: World Cup Faces [large pictures]

Bhavani Prakash from Eco WALK the Talk sent this to share a footage of an elusive local bird and promote the awareness of local biodiversity. Thanks Bhavani!

March 12th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Natsumi Kamata (鎌田 奈津美 born 19 Aug 1988) is a gravure idol from Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. She began modeling in 2006. The following year, she won the 2007 Sunday Weekly Young Grand Prix. Since then she has appeared in numerous TV dramas and several stage performances. Pictures from YS Web feature after the break. [PNSFW]

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March 12th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Comments (3)

Budget 2010 Debate
- The Temasek Review: Appropriateness and integrity in the use of government statistics
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Large foreign workforce a buffer?
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim: R&D spending needs to be accounted for
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: Access to good mentors key to helping entrepreneurs succeed
- Trapper’s Swamp: There’s a time and place for everything

Housing Singaporeans
- Lianain Films: Homelessness Is Not A Dirty Word
- Yours Truly Singapore: Mah’s story is also Singapore’s story

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- The Void Deck: Town Councils increases S&CC – Give us some value! [Thanks Pek]

ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- New Asia Republic: Public transport for 6.5 million
- Brad’s Blog: LTA Trying To Scam Singaporeans’ Money?

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Singaporean Skeptic: PAP Minister dodges the question by pretending to answer a different question
- The Temasek Review: Prudential – AIA deal: A deal of epic proportions

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Alternatives: Sorry no enough Minister Khaw

Woman No Enough
- Sam’s Thoughts: Jack Neo is not Tiger Woods
- Trapper’s Swamp: Who Jack Neo jumps is none of our business [Thanks Terence]
- You just can’t miss it!: Singapore’s Most Popular/Notorious Film Director at the Moment is also My Fellow Church Member

Religion
- Irreligious: What makes a fundamentalist? [Thanks Terence]

Daily Discourse
- The Asia File: What Singapore could learn from Rupert Murdoch [Thanks Ben]
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore Press Holdings and Abu Dhabi Media Company
- The Kent Ridge Common: YourSingapore: One of the Worst?
- TOC: Summoning hither the dolphins
- Sam’s Thoughts: Eugene Loh’s obsession with cross-dressing… on television!
- Musings From the Lion City: Obedient Wives
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: Dr Chee Soon Juan: We must believe (Video)

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Bloomberg: Singapore’s Economy May Expand 6.5% This Year, MAS Survey Shows
- The Jakarta Post: Batam hopeful about tourist overflow from Singapore casino
- ZDNet: S’pore govt calls halt to iPhone app service
- Reuters: U.S. calls Myanmar election laws “a mockery”
- Business Insider: South Korea Bucks Crowded Trade In Asian Sons And Now Prefers Daughters
- Reuters For The Record: Social media: Some principles and guidelines
- Forbes: Bill Gates No Longer World’s Richest Man
- Guardian Gallery: Football: Manchester United v AC Milan

March 11th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (1)

It’s the IT Show week. What are you planning to buy?

News
- Bootstrike: IT Show Pricelist
- TechGoondu: YOG launches virtual world to reach out to youths
- Mashable: Facebook to Launch Location Features Next Month
- TechCrunch: Twitter Turns On Geolocation On Its Website
- TechieLobang: Symantec launches latest Norton 360 V4.0
- APC: Microsoft: “No Windows Phone 7 upgrade for Windows Mobile 6.x devices”
- Cnet: Google Maps to add bike maps, directions
- Joystiq: Ubisoft DRM authentification server is down, Assassin’s Creed 2 unplayable
- i-digITall.com: Samsung is going to conquer the world
- TechGoondu: MeeGo steering group easing platform concerns?
- The Register: Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes

Reviews | Guides
- LesterChan.net: Nokia N900 Blogger Preview
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Review: X-Mini Happy

March 11th, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Budget 2010 Debate
- New Asia Republic: The question of productivity
- New Asia Republic: How GST adds value
- Singapore Dino: PAP MP asks Khaw Boon Wan for “secret to looking young” during Parliament debate
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Who voted this Ong Ah Heng into Parliament?

Harry Lee and the Dissident of Singaland
- ambiguity: Gopalan Nair: Why So Serious?
- Because you’ve got all eyes on you no matter where you are: Gopalan Nair’s dirty little trick
- journalism.sg: Online hoax about Lee Kuan Yew’s health receives wide condemnation

Housing Singaporeans
- Trapper’s Swamp: Wrong answers from the wrong questions [1][2]
- Yawning Bread: Breeding a subsidy mentality in housing
- Chee Wai’s Random Musing: Our dear MBT does not understand the idea behind market forces?

Countdown to Elections
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Election for 8-year-olds

Singaporeans are fed, up with progress!
- Trapper’s Swamp: S&C charges raised, still no transparency
- The Temasek Review: 2 PAP Town Councils raise their S&C charges as PAP ministers look forward to another pay hike

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Sgpolitics.net: Should treatment of chronic and terminal illnesses in Singapore enjoy better subsidies?
- Mathia Lee: Don’t ignore pain, get treated early

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- The Temasek Review: PAP Minister: “Not realistic” for GIC to avoid losses

Woman No Enough
- The Kent Ridge Common: A PBM – but human, all too human.
- Mr Wang Says So: The Sorry Story of Jack Neo
- Musings From the Lion City: Singapore’s Tiger Woods

Daily Discourse
- guanyinmiao’s musings: True Singaporeans Will Always Be There, Everywhere
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Who were the culprits in the hit and run case?
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Victims and Menaces
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Sea level rise in Singapore: what effects?

Life, the universe and everything
- Brad’s Blog: Small Time ‘my paper’ Critic Jill Alphonso Bashes Cameron and Avatar
- TOC: Survey on IT knowledge among Singaporeans
- The Long and Winding Road: A hidden secret that one of the bridges at the mouth of the river once held
- Tantalizine: History of the Shirt

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- The Hindu: Insights into India-Singapore relations
- NYT Tech: An Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits
- BBC: Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010
- Business Insider: How To Build The Ultimate Stock Screener
- AP: Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses
- NYT Automobiles: Geneva Auto Show: Last Looks
- EW.com: ‘American Idol’ semifinals (Top 8 women): Who’s going home on Thursday?
- LA Times: Oscar winners’ next projects
- Guardian Gallery: You are cordially invited to the Oscars after-parties

March 10th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2010 Debate
- Singapore Alternatives: Budget Debate 2010 – Myths of HDB and 460K for poor over 60 years?
- The Temasek Review: 10 most unforgettable quotes from PAP MPs during the recent parliamentary “debate”
- Brad’s Blog: Productivity! Productivity! Productivity!
- Feed Me To The Fish: Daft & Dafter
- Yours Truly Singapore: Economic growth benefits all citizens
- Insane Polygons: Motivational Posters for the Elite 7

Harry Lee and the Dissident of Singaland
- Sam’s Thoughts: Gopalan Nair: Lee Kuan Yew suffers massive heart attack (a hoax)
- Icarus Flew Too High: The Gopalan Coup
- TOC: Gopalan Nair’s despicable hoax
- The Kent Ridge Common: The Real Rabbit out of Gopalan’s Hat
- Sgpolitics: Sgpolitics.net condemns Gopalan Nair’s actions in the strongest possible terms
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Out Goes Gopolan’s Credibility (Not a Hoax)
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: A step backward for free speech
- under a Pipala Tree: Bullshit Post
- I’m getting personal: Gopalan Nair deserves a smack on his head!!!!

Housing Singaporeans
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Random thoughts on public housing
- My Little Corner: Summary of HDB changes for Budget 2010

Countdown to Elections
- Yawning Bread: Foreign funding a necessary antidote in authoritarian states

Religion
- Laïcité: Belief is not a Choice

Daily Discourse
- Rachel Zeng: Singaporean women are useless because they are less ‘obedient’?
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: My thoughts on Singaporean men wanting brides from China & Vietnam

Life, the universe and everything
- Barnyard Chorus: International Women’s Day
- Lianain Films: The Maestro’s Daughters
- Hear Ye! Hear Ye!: Poor Jack Neo

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- The Star: ‘Build bridge to replace Causeway’
- Asia Pacific Voices: China-ASEAN rail link development on track
- NYT Room for Debate: Educated and Fearing the Future in China
- AP: White House tweeting spreads president’s message
- Reuters: Fear of ageing drives men’s cosmetic sales
- BBC: Do working mums make healthy children?
- NYT: Sleep: Study Finds Many Are Too Tired for Sex
- Guardian gallery: Oscars 2010: the winners in pictures
- Guardian gallery: Oscars 2010: The 20 best-dressed stars
- Plog Photo Blog: The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (large pictures)

March 9th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Budget 2010
- TOC: Budget debate statistics: Uniquely Singapore?
- The Temasek Review: A disaster in the making: PAP’s “instant tree” mentality
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: The TRUTH about Productivity..
- Ian On The Red Dot: Productivity & Wages – Which Is The Cause & The Effect
- Sgpolitics.net: Productivity: Senior Minister, is it that simple?
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang: It should not be all about economic benefit
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Productivity and related issues
- Trapper’s Swamp: Low Thia Kiang vs Josephine Teo
- guanyinmiao’s musings: Growth For All
- Military Life: The SAF is Productive Because there are no foreigners in the SAF [Thanks Panzer]
- Musings From the Lion City: Why It Will Stay Just Talk
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Foreign Worker ERP
- Singapore Dino: Has PM Lee gone into hiding?
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Somnelent Deputy Prime Minister

Housing Singaporeans
- Gerald Giam: Low Thia Khiang urges Govt to “seriously look” into housing options for homeless
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: PRs just moved to a lower indifference curve
- Singapore Social and Political Thoughts: Mr Mah, you are more than 4 years late!
- TOC: Malay homelessness – who was the quicker finger-pointer?
- Singapore Life and Times: Slow and steady

Strangers in a Strange Land
- The Kent Ridge Common: Rethinking our population ‘problem’
- Growing your tree of prosperity: Some solutions to population growth and foreign workers. [Thanks Wai Chung]

Countdown to Elections
- kay poh chee: Bangla sweepers are now replaced by Singaporeans according to.. [Thank Jon]

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Who is making the investment decisions for Singapore’s GIC and Temasek?
- FT.com: Singapore fund braced for SFr5.5bn UBS loss

Sorry Rony Recants
- Used Brains For Sale: Ending the War

Healthcare & Healthcare Providers
- Singapore Life and Times: Bumped out

Daily Discourse
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singaporeans richer than Americans?
- TOC: The language divide
- Sgpolitics.net: Law enforcement nightmare at Geylang

Life, the universe and everything
- Open Contours: At the Ringside of the Global Village
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Singapore 2010 Odyssey
- Otterman speaks: Photos from this morning’s OCBC Cycle Singapore [flickr]
- Daring Fireball: This Apple-HTC Patent Thing [via Balderdash]

Infoblogoramus
- SGEntrepreneurs: Events For The Week – 6-13 Mar

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Reuters Global News Journal: Balancing powers in the Malacca Strait
- The Star: More grads join jobless queue
- Guardian Gallery: Paris fashion week turns heads

March 8th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (2)

“For a nation priding itself on knowledge, science and technology, to have productivity fall over 10 years is horrifying.”
onedimensionalman

“If I get to vote in the next election than I will go ahead and just be daft.”
Insane Polygons

“Today, I hardly touch local newspapers anymore.”
theinkhorn

““Govt does not decide characteristics of Singapore’s markets: SM Goh”.. Well, who is looking into it, if not the government?”
Twasher

“The fact that we worry of productivity is symptomatic of how society in general is suffering a systematic dehumanisation and degradation of human dignity. It should send a chill down ones spine that human resource has become a means to a productive end.”
zachisaiahchia

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.
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March 6th, 2010 | Category: Weekly Roundup | Leave a comment

Budget 2010
- TOC: Budget should be more inclusive, change workplace culture to boost productivity, NMP says
- The Temasek Review: Sylvia Lim: the pace and scale of the influx of foreigners in the last few years was wrong
- The Kent Ridge Common: Why NMP Calvin Cheng has got it all wrong
- The Void Deck: Budget 2010 – S’pore for S’poreans [Thanks Dennis]
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The Consummate Joker
- Trapper’s Swamp: Who elected these clowns?
- The Temasek Review: Reform Party’s Kenneth Jeyaretnam replies to YPAP activists
- Feed Me To The Fish: What’s the Meaning of Affordability, Subsidy and Productivity in Singapore?
- The Temasek Review: Ng Kok Lim rebuts Halimah Yacob’s assertion that Singapore workers can afford more
- ALVINOLOGY: Quoteworthy – Prof Koo Tsai Kee, MP, Tanjong Pagar GRC

Countdown to Elections
- Gerald Giam: Sylvia Lim asks for transparency in electoral boundaries report

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: Interview with Rev. Dr. Edward Job on Death Penalty

Strangers in a Strange Land
- Ian On The Red Dot: Jordan Beats Singapore 2-1
- Singaporean Skeptic: Comparing Singapore to the UAE.

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- TOC: How is allowing Medisave to be used overseas connected with GIC losing S$7.3 billion?
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Unnamed Asian fund billions for Prudential’s AIG bid
- Reuters: UPDATE 1-GIC converts UBS notes, faces $5 bln paper loss [Thanks Gerald]

Sin City
- SilentAssassin’s Archive: Casino-related social ills

Re education
- That Burning Republic-State Doesn’t Sway Placidity: The Portrait of the Singaporean Student

Daily Discourse
- ambiguity: Such Ignorance
- The Sun Shines on Singapore: Out Goes the AG
- Yaevlejunce Pilgrimage: How Singaporeans discuss national issues

Life, the universe and everything
- Balderdash: Rules from the NEA on scattering someone’s ashes at sea in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: Being a Republic
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Amazing Rube Goldberg machines by OK Go
- Tribolum.com: If You Want Something Done Right

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Bloomberg: HIV Discoverer Criticizes Singapore for Lack of Free Treatment
- Bloomberg: Singapore Plans Greenwich-Style Hedge-Fund Area at Nepal Hill
- HBS: FDI and Local Entrepreneurship in Four Asian Economies – Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
- AP: Thailand offers tourists free insurance
- NYT Business: Why, Exactly, Are Big Banks Bad?
- BBC: BMW hopes new 5-series will revitalise the brand
- Guardian Gallery: Gay marriage around the world
- Guardian Gallery: Paris fashion week: A daring first day

March 5th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

Ai Takabe (高部あい born 16 Aug 1988) is a popular actress in Japan. She began modeling in 2004, and was quickly recruited into the Bishoujo Club 31 (girl pop group). In 2005, Ai won 1st prize at the Miss WPB Grand Prix. She began acting in 2006 and became a popular TV actress. Pictures from her photobook Sky, Wind and You after the break.

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March 5th, 2010 | Category: Daily ChioBu | Leave a comment

Budget 2010
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Productivity and Cheap Foreign Labor..
- Gerald Giam: Growth must improve welfare of Singaporeans: Sylvia Lim
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Sylvia Lim : Economic Growth Must Benefit Singaporeans..
- The Temasek Review: U.S Labor Dept: Singapore has steepest productivity decline and lowest increase in hourly wages in 2007 – 2008
- Times They Are A-Changin’: How does that work?
- Singapore Dino: These PAP MPs don’t deserve to be in Parliament
- The Temasek Review: The root cause of Singapore’s economic woes: A political system meant to perpetuate the hegemony of the PAP forever
- The Temasek Review: DBS economist: Singapore may lose nearly 100,000 jobs by mid 2010
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Increasing productivity in Singapore
- New Asia Republic: A positive approach towards taxation
- Zach’s Thought Blot: On Productivity

We are against Capital Punishment
- Covered in His Blood: Anti-Death Penalty in Spore [Thanks Paul]

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- WSJ: Prudential Taps Temasek To Help Fund AIA Acquisition – Sources

Sin City
- Times They Are A-Changin’: Who crossed the line first?

Lee vs Chee
- Singabloodypore: Ruling will go down as one that ignored common sense: Tian Jing

Daily Discourse
- The Temple Of Thoughts 3: The Singaporean Attitude (And what can be done)
- Mathia Lee: Genetic Sex Change : Real or hype?
- Sex sells, so does Politics: After the Romanian, now a Saudi Arabian attack
- Balderdash: MFA FAIL
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Rip out your F1 button and throw it away
- Anonymous_X: A forbidden love story of a 23-year-old guy & his 42-year-old girlfriend: Singapore is no Cougar Town [Thanks wacky_artz]
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Asia 360 – 15th Philippine Hot Air Balloon Festival (3/3) [Thanks Major]

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- The Daily Beast: The iPhone Becomes a Bully
- Reuters: Nobel winners push for Myanmar regime to face court
- NYT Your Money: Preparing for the Inevitable Bursting Bubble
- NYT Room for Debate: College Degrees Without Going to Class
- Reuters: FDA panel to target menthol cigarettes
- Reuters Environment Forum: Top 5 greenest cities in the world
- Guardian Gallery: How nude! Spencer Tunick’s flesh photography

March 4th, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Comments (4)

Budget 2010
- Gerald Giam: Low productivity not our workers’ fault: WP’s Low
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP and Opposition MPs raise concerns over foreign worker levy
- Sgpolitics.net: PAP MPs echo NSP’s concerns on impact of productivity drive on SMEs
- Majulah!: Response to “Young PAP on Budget 2010″
- New Asia Republic: ICPAS Pre-Budget Roundtable 2010 [Thanks Donaldson]
- The Jakarta Post: Jakarta shuns Singapore new migrant levy increase

Countdown to Elections
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Singapore Needs Better Leadership…
- Mindblogging Stuff: New Singapore national pledge

We are against Capital Punishment
- TOC: No convincing reason to believe that the MDP works
- TOC: A moratorium is not an insult to national sovereignty

Sorry Rony Recants
- Angry Doctor: Take our rights… please!
- TOC: Let’s fight free speech with free speech

Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Not all foreign workers are counted?
- The Temasek Review: The Iceman Cometh: The Role of Foreigners in Singapore

Housing Singaporeans
- The Temasek Review: ST fails to mention that author of its article on HDB flats being affordable sits on HDB board

GIC, Temasek State Fund Investments
- Macro: (BN) Singapore, Abu Dhabi Face $10 Billion Loss on UBS, Citigroup
- BusinessWeek: Temasek-Owned Stocks Fall After Thai Thaksin Ruling (Update1)
- Bloomberg: Singapore, Abu Dhabi Face Losses on UBS, Citigroup (Update2)
- Bloomberg: Glencore Exercising ‘in the Money’ Coal Option May Signal IPO [Thanks Gerald]

Lee vs Chee
- Chee Siok Chin’s Blog: Again [Thanks Seelan]

Daily Discourse
- TOC: Press Muse – Love thyself, ignore thy neighbour
- Mathia Lee: Is education overrated?

Life, the universe and everything
- The Long and Winding Road: Smokey’s and a Red House: Memories of Victoria Street from Bras Basah to Middle Road
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Sony BRAVIA Full HD 3D TV coming to Singapore this summer
- Small steps for Social PR: Gadget3 to close – End of consumer tech era at CR Media

Infoblogaramous
- Moving Higher In Souped-up Heuristically Agon Moment: Calling all Facilitators, Social Innovators, and Designers!

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- MoneyWeek: Singapore: a cheap play on Asian growth
- Reuters: Mid to late 20s best age to have a first baby: poll
- Reuters Small Business: E-mail is Making You Stupid
- Reuters UK Football: Wealthy fans plan Man Utd bid, owners won’t sell
- NYT: Writing a Résumé That Shouts ‘Hire Me’
- Crack Two: 45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention
- NYT Wheels: Geneva Auto Show Coverage
- Guardian: Ancient and modern: the timeless architecture of IM Pei
- Guardian Gallery: Geneva Motor Show

March 3rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment

You know you are becoming a threat when your opponent starts digging thru their patent filing and find stuff they can sue you out of business. Apple just sued HTC for infringing on 20 patents “related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.”

On other patent news, Facebook was granted patent on the News Feed.

News
- Gizmodo: Apple Sues HTC For Infringing On 20 iPhone Patents
- RWW: Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed
- FoxTwo’s Ramblings: Facebook Finally Disable App Notifications!
- Cnet: Reports: 5,000 ‘overtly sexual’ iPhone apps purged
- SGEntrepreneurs: iCell Enters E-Reader Market With KeyReader
- Playstation.Blog: Latest info on PlayStation Network Status
- Engadget: Qualcomm’s 7×30 offers stellar 3D and multimedia performance, coming this year
- TechGoondu: Samsung 3D TVs go on sale this month
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Sony BRAVIA Full HD 3D TV coming to Singapore this summer
- Engadget: Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS
- Empty Vessel: Sony joins the prosumer bandwagon
- TechGoondu: Commentary: The anti-virus market
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: One more reason on why you shouldn’t create your website entirely on flash
- TechieLobang: Is Your Home Ready for OpenNet Nationwide Fibre Network?
- TechGoondu: Whither Linux drivers?

Reviews | Guides
- TechieLobang: Nokia N900 Bloggers’ Preview
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: First Look: BlackBerry Storm 2
- RamblingLibrarian: My (outside US) Kindle experience
- JustinLee.sg: LG W2486L Review
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: Nokia N97 V2 firmware is now available in Singapore

March 3rd, 2010 | Category: Daily Tech | Leave a comment

Budget 2010
- Lianain Films: So How Much Did you Pay Your Agent?
- The Temasek Review: How PAP screws up Singapore’s labor productivity with its “open door” policy to foreign workers
- The Grand Moofti Speaks: Singapore’s economy: the path not yet taken
- WSJ: ‘The Singapore Way’ [Thanks Gerald]

Countdown to Elections
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: The coming around of Chee Soon Juan and SDP?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: MSM becomes friendlier to Chee..
- The Temasek Review: Dr Chee Soon Juan challenges Lee Kuan Yew to write off his debts
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Different functions of Government

We are against Capital Punishment
- la nausée: What Do Singapore Courts Think of the Misuse of Drugs Act?
- TOC: Crime and punishment

Housing Singaporeans
- Yours Truly Singapore: Housing in S’pore still affordable

Daily Discourse
- Barnyard Chorus: In which I’m pissed off, so welcome This Apocalypse.
- The Rot Within: The coming demise of wet markets
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Prison population across the globe
- Sze Zeng: What do I think about homosexuality?
- Wild Shores of Singapore: Flaring up at Pulau Bukom

Life, the universe and everything
- Jacob 69er: SDP 30th anniversary commemorative magazine packs a punch with style and substance [Thanks Seelan]
- Singapore Life and Times: Toss of Fortune
- Anonymous_X: Sinking of Singapore is “Irredeemable” [Thanks Anthony]

- Notes from Serangoon Road: On Community
- Singapore Fountain Pen: Asia 360 – 15th Philippine Hot Air Balloon Festival (1/3) [Thanks major]

Infoblogaramous
- pinkdot.sg: Love, Kinship and Families take centre stage at Pink Dot 2010

Selected News Stories [Thanks Gerald Ho]
- Reuters: Death penalty opponents see executions on the wane
- Reuters: FACTBOX-Key political risks to watch in Thailand
- Bloomberg: Obama Trip May Alter U.S. Misperception of Asean, Ministers Say
- ars technica: Internet overtakes print in news consumption among Americans
- Reuters Front Row Washington: Does it matter if the president smokes?
- The Australian: 5200 strip off for photographer Spencer Tunick at the Sydney Opera House
- NYT Wheels: Geneva Auto Show: Before the Rush
- NYT Fashion & Styles: Milan Goes in All Directions
- Guardian: Milan fashion week: An elegant ending
- Money Mumbo Jumbo: 30 Bizarre Examples of Defacing Money

March 2nd, 2010 | Category: Daily Sg | Leave a comment