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...running Journal--out for a test-drive. The hardware is pretty slick. It starts off looking like a laptop, but then you unhook part of the screen, swing it around 180[degrees] and push it down. Press a button to go from landscape to portrait view, and presto! Instant Tablet. The whole thing is about the size of a thick legal pad, weighs under 3 lbs. and sits comfortably on your thigh. It doesn't get hot, and you can rest your wrist and arm on the screen without messing up your work. That's because the stylus that operates...
...hope it does, because you can do a lot of neat things with Journal notes. Searching is easy: jot down the words you're looking for, and Journal instantly offers a list of matching documents. Converting handwriting to text is surprisingly accurate, and when Journal doesn't recognize a word, it gives you drop-down menus of possible replacements. You can handwrite replies to e-mail or draw diagrams in instant messages. You can turn sentences into to-do items in Microsoft Outlook or dump them into Microsoft Word. No doubt this is all part of Gates' plan to take...
...often accused of lacking is not so much expressed in lyrics or notes, but instead lies in the exuberant rhythms and beauty of its infinitely nuanced construction. Dance music is carefully crafted sound as architecture, but constantly in motion and change. By nature, unfortunately, it seems incompatible with the instant-gratification needs of MTV and mainstream radio, which cater to those with short attention spans—that is, the record-buying public at large...
...Unless Powell hated instant rice before Beers worked her magic, the analogy is undercooked. The former head of both Ogilvy & Mather and J. Walter Thompson became famous for "branding" products like American Express. Now Beers has to rebrand Osama bin Laden as a mass murderer to millions of Muslims who have never seen a 767 or a skyscraper, much less one flying into the other. She has to do it in languages, like Pashto and Dari, that don't even have a word for terrorist. And all this without having control over Voice of America or Radio Free Europe...
...after introducing the Nigerian President in the Rose Garden. Squinting into the sun, which eliminates any temptation to smirk or bite his lip, Bush promised that "we're on the hunt" and we're "going to chase them down," then advised impatient Americans to get over their need for "instant gratification...