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28 Jan 2010 10:21

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Tech: The Apple iPad: Is the target audience the already-converted?

  • When it launches, the iPad’s initial target audience is iPhone and iPod touch users. Why? Because they are already very comfortable with the way you need to interact with this device.
  • TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler • Regarding the iPad’s initial target audience. It’s something Apple CEO Steve Jobs himself hinted at during his keynote address, saying, “If you have an iPhone, you already know how to use this.” And ultimately, that’s who’s going to be buying this, according to Siegler. It’s not perfect – it’s probably closer to a first-generation iPod than a first-generation iPhone in terms of completeness – but many users can already see its potential. It’s a CrunchPad on steroids. (Sorry, TechCrunch.) source
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22 Oct 2009 21:34

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Politics, World: A sampling of some of the quotes Nick Griffin faced

  • Sir Winston Churchill put everything on the line so that my ancestors wouldn’t get slaughtered in the concentration camps. But here sits a man who says that is a myth just like a flat world was a myth.
  • A “Question Time” audience member • Refuting a claim by British National Party head Nick Griffin that compared the deaths in the Holocaust were an “Orthodox myth,” much like the world being flat. Griffin also said that if Churchill was alive today, he would be a member of the controversial white-supremacist party. • source
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02 Aug 2009 12:20

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Music: Don’t worry, be hacky: Bobby McFerrin messes with our minds

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

  • The guy who made the biggest a capella hit ever messes with the minds of people at a science conference, getting them to use the Pentatonic Scale without realizing it. He just hacked their minds, yo.source
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