The iPad would also allow him to watch television shows and movies, listen to music, or just pass the time while waiting for the next flight home. “It’s interesting…Here you have a brand-new technology and a head of state actually using the technology to manage the country,” said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. “It either says an awful lot about the device or an awful lot about what he needs to do to manage the country.”
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twitter.com—facebook.com—One of the biggest shortcomings of the first gen iPad is the fact that it has no camera. There IS a workaround if you happen to have an iPhone. You'll need two apps in order to make this work. One is free, the other is ninety-nine cents. The apps are called Camera-A and Camera-B. Once you get them, it's pretty easy to start snapping pictures. chris.pirillo.com
Apple sold more than 300,000 iPads on the tablet’s first day in stores, which roughly matched Wall Street forecasts and mirrored the iPhone’s debut in 2007. Analysts said many more companies were due to launch their own tablets shortly. Read more...(177 words, estimated 42 secs reading time)
Zumba, the fitness dance craze that has taken the United States by storm, started simply enough in Colombia in the Nineties when aerobics teacher Beto Perez forgot his usual music and had to improvise around the music he had in his car.
Perez decided to call the exercise Zumba, after the Colombian slang word meaning to buzz like a bee or move fast. Zumba fuses the hypnotic Latin rhythms of salsa and merengue with easy to follow moves to create a dynamic fitness program.
During the euphoric period after the 2008 presidential election, I started to read What’s the Matter with Kansas? This is a book that I should have read when it first came out, but for some reason I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. Ever since it came out in 2004, I had been hearing references to Thomas Frank’s book as I watched various political discussions on C-SPAN. But, as President Bush’s second term devolved into greater depths of cronyism and malfeasance, I opted instead for escapism and fantasy, with graphic novels and Harry Potter.
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
The subtitle of the book is “How Conservatives Won the Heart of America.” Conservatives might have run away with America’s heart, but they left her mind on the side of the road. How else to explain how George Bush managed to get re-elected after starting an unnecessary war in Iraq and delivering very little to the stalwart cultural conservatives who supported him so mindlessly.