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...passionate claims for its sensational applications. What follows is an inevitable period of adjustment: How do I actually use this thing, anyway? A year or so ago, my wife gave me a Palm Pilot for my birthday. Not knowing what to do with it, I put it in the charger. After two months, and with visibly hurt feelings, she finally asked me about it: "I think it's probably charged by now," she said. Ha, ha. I guiltily forced myself to use it. As it turned out, it, too, filled a need: as an organizer it really is better than...
...hard charger meets another
...Feeney isn't exactly quaking in his boots. Known as a sharp-witted, backslapping arch-conservative - think Tom DeLay with a winning personality - he's a hard charger who only snickers when he gets blasted in the papers. He was also Jeb Bush's running mate in his failed 1994 gubernatorial race - and his hard-right ideology was widely implicated in the loss. But if Feeney is afraid of playing the same p.r. albatross to Jeb's brother, he doesn...
...Pets" sound downright canned by comparison. The remaining Jane's songs are a good summary of the band, with hard rockers like "Stop" and the psychedelic meanderings of "Summertime Rolls." P4P is also represented at its best, though the selection of two clones like "Cursed Male" and "Hard Charger" is questionable. Also included are Jane's Addiction's Beatles-esque take on The Dead's "Ripple" and Porno for Pyros' Cable Guy soundtrack version of Lou Reed's "Satellite of Love," which sounds eerily like the Dead with Farrell on vocals. Of the two new tracks, "Rev" is a respectable...
...America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...