Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...what they don't know and what they think." Meeting with reporters in April, Fingar proudly allowed that he had been "the dissenter on a large number of things" while he was director of intelligence at the State Department. The experience of being in the minority on such hot-button reports as the pre-war estimate, Fingar said, has helped him reform the NIE drafting process. "That has informed the way in which we have approached artificial consensus or premature consensus," said Fingar, now the Deputy DNI for Analysis...
...stories, based on how many other members are reading them. In July Web humorist Ze Frank hosted an ugliest MySpace page contest; David Lehre's parody, "MySpace, The Movie," is a YouTube favorite. There's even a mobile phone - the Helio Hero - offering one-button access to MySpace so you can view pages and respond to friends on the go. Think MySpace is too "young" for you? New social network Eons is targeting the 50-plus crowd...
...Chocolate has gotten early buzz for being "iPod-like" - by that, the buzzers mean that it has a circular touchpad with an "OK" button in the middle. In truth, that's where the phone's resemblance to an iPod ends. Four more touch buttons around the touchpad come and go as needed during a call or when a menu has pop-up options. It takes a while to get used to the fact that parts of the phone's face can suddenly become buttons, but it's so cool that I could deal with...
...Music button on the phone's right side is a stroke of convenience. Unlike other quick-access buttons I've seen, this one allows you to toggle. You quickly access and then hide tunes, allowing them to play in the background as you go about your business. Taking its cue from the circular touchpad, the animated main menu lets you swirl through options. It is a major aesthetic improvement over Verizon's current standard menu system, and key features, such as the phone's Bluetooth networking capability, are easier to locate...
...Baby Einstein vs. Barbie Overscheduled kids. Overprotective parents. They're hot-button media issues, but are they really the problems faced by most American families...