People have done alot worse...
for some Cupertinian shinyness.
Kidney anyone?
Backers of Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin have hit upon a perhaps not-so-novel means of bolstering his political support: they have offered young Russian women the chance to win an iPad 2 by "stripping for Putin". In this YouTube vid, we observe saucy Muscovite minx Diana – who already has an iPhone 4 – striding boldly along …
"But what other word should I have used that the English-speaking world would have immediately recognized as quintessentially Russian and female?"
Problem: you don't think your audience understands enough Russian for you to make jokes in a foreign language
Solution: use any word whatsoever, even if it's about grandmothers.
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"Berlusconi is probably kicking himself right now." Why? After all, back in the '90s he had several years of staring at la Cicciolina in the Italian Parliament, and she used to end each and every political rally by flashing her jubs, so it would be kinda hard to tempt Italian male voters with just a bit of mild strip tease after that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilona_Staller
I can't think of a more insightful yet succint way of illustrating the populist nature of politics in Russia today than this and the way that the modern democratic system is subverted by image not content, much as the media theorist Neil Postman warned us about.
Though I do worry some of the more low-brow readers might mistake this for a cheap titillation.
Either you like it or not folks, Apple has ressurected 2 significant product categories (home computers, smartphones) and created 1 new (tablets), in an era that the other companies looked like they were trying to kill the categories they "competed" in.
Have you ever used a Nokia N70 or N80? Utterly terrible. Theoretically capable of everything, yet lame and sloow at everything. I got a N70 just because I wanted the awesome Symbian S60 games gameloft was producing back then (the asphalt series etc), but the multimedia experience sucked. Blackberry? Give me a break!
As regards PCs, ever tried to use Windows 7 to convert a video to MP4? It cannot be done without the help of third party tools.
Now, I won't get an iphone because not being able to load apps from my harddisk to my own phone (even my old, locked by vodafone to death GX30i can do that with some WAP tricks) is too much flexibility to give up, so I want to get an Android phone. And i can't decide which one to get, because of all those customs UIs (facetime, Sense) and third party extensions (LG 3D) that exist out there. It's literally a "who knows what you will get with every phone" platform.