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...really sweat them. "I actually have a photographer's loupe that I use to look to make sure every pixel is right," says Scott Forstall, Apple's vice-president of Platform Experience (whatever that is). "We will argue over literally a single pixel." As a result, when you swipe your finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone, you're not just accessing a system of nested menus, you're entering a tiny universe, where data exist as bouncy, gemlike, animated objects that behave according to consistent rules of virtual physics. Because there's no intermediary input device-like...
...even if it’s their own choice to do so—will significantly reduce this social dynamic of the dining hall. Students on a mixed meal plan will have to think twice about tapping their weekly allotment for any given meal. And failing to swipe in or leaving the dining hall with food in hand, rather than constituting minor misdemeanors, could quite literally come to be viewed as theft...
...take their act to Dubai. Ryan A. Petersen ’08, on the other hand, has put together a team with the experience to really take us to the next level. Thanks to his running mate, Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, upperclassmen are now able to swipe into any freshman dorm when the girls they’re with are too drunk to do it themselves. As you might imagine, this policy has been a huge boon to perverts on campus and has quadrupled the attendance at our Room 13 counseling group on Wednesday nights. The only...
...believe that Tom Hadfield and Adam Goldenberg are a singularly well-qualified team. Hadfield is one of the most accomplished undergraduates at Harvard. Prior to arriving on campus, he launched Soccernet, an internationally acclaimed Web site, and undertook a series of philanthropic projects. At Harvard, Hadfield has pioneered the Swipe for Darfur campaign, a comprehensive online events calendar for the College, and CrimsonReading.org, a website that allows students to save money by comparison shopping for textbooks—and, starting last week, find coursepacks online. Goldenberg’s impressive accomplishments complement Hadfield’s. He serves as vice...
Hadfield, who is also a Crimson editorial editor, spearheaded “Swipe for Darfur,” which allowed undergraduates to redirect Crimson Cash money to support African Union peacekeepers in Sudan. He also launched crimsonreading.org, a Web site which helps students find cheap textbooks...