Word: platforms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...clothes. It’s difficult to imagine a time when the underground prevalence of feminist political magazines bearing titles like “Diabolical Clits” and “The Adventures of Baby Dyke” was groundbreaking. The concept of women drawing empowerment from platform heels has long past reached its expiration date. The Riot Grrl has taken her place with the Girl Friday as something of an anachronism, and the Modern Woman is on the rise—but who is she? Laurel T. Ulrich’s best-known quotation, a bumper-sticker staple...
...father was an African immigrant and his mother was white was not a negative matter to us in any way. We were pleased that a different type of leader was on the horizon. Now that Obama has announced his candidacy for President, we are interested only in his platform and how he runs his campaign. I am proud of the expanding mosaic of black Americans...
Kajeet's success may well have little to do with phone calls. What the company is really selling is a multimedia networking platform in an edgy package. In other words, a toy. A few weeks into my daughter's beta testing, she roamed the house barking into her handset, "Code Red Alert. Code Red Alert." The phone wasn't even switched on. "I'm just playing," she said. "None of my friends have cell phones, so I don't actually have anyone to call." If Kajeet's homework pays off, that won't be the case for much longer...
...closely correlated to one’s success in the sack. Attractive Facebook.com photos often lead to sexual victories; landscape profile pics usually suggest an unattractive lone ranger. Now, thanks to PeopleRadar, the game has become official. PeopleRadar, Facebook.com’s recent addition to its development platform, allows users to rank profile photos on a scale of 1 to 10. “I’d been thinking about doing a ‘Hot or Not’ site for students,” says PeopleRadar founder, Richard W.T. Price. “But the tricky...
...many, Obama’s charm will be enough. We are so starved for political energy that we will gladly take Obama even if his flair never coalesces into a realistic platform. However, it would be far shrewder for us to acknowledge our own desperation for a likable candidate, hold out for just a bit longer, and demand that Obama turn his campaign into more than just eye and ear candy. He may indeed be a tremendous candidate, the first in years to be able to fuse the ability to persuade with the resolve to take difficult, potentially unpopular stances...