When I run into a male acquaintance, I know exactly how to greet him: shake his hand. Doesn’t matter how long we’ve known each other. I even shake my dad’s hand. But with females, I feel like I’m trapped between two walls of a deep-space garbage compactor.
"Completely flat," "like Android," "Microsoft-flat" etc etc etc. The talk about how Apple is going to ‘flatten out’ its UI style has set the rumour-mills ablaze with completely spurious conjecture. So I thought I’d add to it. However, let’s approach this not from "what one insider source told someone" but instead from evidence of progression within some of the top iOS apps.
I started a blog tracking the illegal trafficking of arms into Syria and ended up being quoted by newspapers around the world. This came as a suprise given that I’ve never been to the Middle East, I don’t speak Arabic and the only military experience I’ve had is playing computer games.
The number of individuals who know how to make a can of Coke is zero. The number of individual nations that could produce a can of Coke is zero. This famously American product is not American at all.
What distinguishes the troll from the mere asshole is, I believe, that he (1) has a target; (2) seeks to get a response—a rise—out of that target; and (3) believes he is acting out of some ordained moral purpose to destroy, to bring down his target.
"Up until now, our names have been synonymous with 'God Hates Fags.' Any twelve-year-old with a cell phone could find out what we did."
The corpse has been outlined with chalk, but like a zombie it refuses to lie down. Under a “new” plan from the FCC, cities across America would be blanketed with “Super WiFi” capable of making mobile phone calls without a cell phone provider or a bill.
"I’m optimistic and delighted every time I open up Twitter on my browser, while Facebook is something I only click on once or twice a day and always with a small sense of dread."
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