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...lockup honing her arts-and-crafts skills. When Rick and Kathy Hilton visited daughter Paris on Father's Day, she gave her father what he called a "beautiful card." But TMZ reports, "For some odd reason, Rick described this year's holiday as 'not one of my best.' Wonder why?" SCORE...
...quitting the G.O.P., Bloomberg has kept open the option of an independent campaign; that option wouldn't be open to a registered Republican. But there are still plenty of reasons to wonder whether he'll exercise that option...
...Semel stepped down as CEO this week in favor of co-founder Jerry Yang, a Stanford wonder kid just like those Google guys who burst Yahoo's bubble. Yang is likely to take a back-to-basics approach to Yahoo, focusing on streamlining the company's many ventures to squeeze more revenue out of the company's new Panama advertising system, a revamped ad platform created to compete more aggressively against Google. "Yang's strengths are sentimental, technical, and basic," says Jordan Rohan, technology analyst with RBC Capital Markets...
...unease is in the air. Sitt has also included a 40-story residential building in his plans. He says amusements aren't profitable on their own, but locals fear that housing in the amusement district would water down Coney Island's noisy eccentricity. The Cyclone and Wonder Wheel are national landmarks, but Sitt's company now plays landlord to most of the rest of Coney Island's rides. The locals are particularly concerned, since some of Sitt's actions-- he demolished go-karts and batting cages this winter, long before he could start building anything to replace them--evoke...
Touch screens are unlikely to stop there. They're just too useful. Once you use an iPhone, you'll get twitchy fingers. You'll wonder why you can't swipe your finger across your laptop screen to jump backward and forward in your browser. The touchability exposes the mouse as the crude finger substitute that it really is. Look at the success of Nintendo's Wii, which works on the same principle, converting physical movements into virtual ones. People are ready to break the fourth wall of computing and put their fingers directly on the data. This is manual-free...