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...aside, the button's days may be numbered. Touchscreen and tablet PCs are becoming more popular, and the latest generation of cellphones like the iPhone incorporate gestures and on-screen keyboards. Microsoft is touting its next-generation Surface technology, bringing the day of the massive Bond-esque touchscreen ever closer. The button may be on its last legs, but may I offer one humble request: Please, leave them in elevators. Making 23 separate stops on the way up to work isn't my idea of a gleaming future, Mr. Jobs...
Still, I think the Fujitsu "FLEPia" brings us - the people who make magazines, newspapers, books, TV shows and movies - one step closer to fixing our badly broken business model. (The perfect media device also needs to be able to do video.) Once we've got the All-Media Device, we're back in business. In the meantime, the migration from the Web to the post-Web world - where content is easier to consume on new mobile devices, but no longer free - is fully underway. (Read about the new iPod Shuffle...
...Read "A Closer Look at Burma's Ethnic Minorities...
...crush on Julia Roberts, it has to be said. She's smart, she's funny, and she's incredibly grounded. And she has a very wicked sense of humor. Some of the dialogue in Closer--to be saying that to America's sweetheart! Part of the reason I adore her is she was so brilliant working on that film. It's very dangerous material, and those scenes are emotionally brutal. She made it as easy as possible...
Winthrop operates by the motto: "Keep your friends close and your frenemies closer." If you want to get to know your blockmates (and the people through the fire door, and the people those people are sleeping with, etc.), Winthrop is the place to do it. Almost all sophomores live in miniscule doubles, and residents are sometimes forced to squeeze into double bedrooms even during their senior year. But with common rooms in every suite, Winthrop lodging is ideal for forced socialization. Plus, humans bond over trauma, and if murdering a six-inch cockroach in your bedroom isn?...