Word: buttoning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Mark already looks like he's made junior partner. He's sipping a Glenfiddich and wearing a button: PATTON BOGGS IN L.A. WE'RE LOBBYISTS. WE ONLY LOOK LIKE MOVIE STARS. A flash goes off as someone frames Anjelica Huston, with guess who in the background? Mark. Now he spots Public Enemy No. 1, and he's inching closer as more flashes pop. Mark will be in pictures with McAuliffe. It's like watching Woody Allen's Zelig...
Dotcom-driven rents have become a hot-button election issue. Two propositions headed for the November ballot in San Francisco attack the way tech firms have wiggled around strict zoning restrictions on office space by defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise...
...alas, you don't get this glorious form without a few blood sacrifices at the altar of function. Take the on-off switch. There's no button, just a purple-glowing touch-sensitive circle. Very year 2000. And very irritating if you happen to brush your hand over it, as I did on more than one occasion, only to discover I had turned the machine off. This is why touch-sensitive keyboards never went mainstream. We humans prefer the certainty of pressing buttons...
...beyond that, some thought has gone into the kinds of things home users (as opposed to business types) might want in a personal digital assistant. It has the usual calendar, address book, to-do list and notepad, but also a readable digital clock available at the push of a button. And while most people will want to learn Graffiti (the scribbling technique for inputting text with a plastic stylus), the notepad also accepts jottings in your own handwriting. Say you meet a friend in a parking lot who gives you a phone number: you simply write it on the screen...
...American eagle while his back was adorned with a large flag. There was another fellow carrying around a sign that read "Nominate Jimmy Carter to Unite the Reform Party." And there was Jim Bourassa, founding chairman of the Arizona Reform party, who wears on his jacket not a political button but a large photograph of recently-deceased actor Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Bourassa says the photo gives him otherworldly powers to wrest political might away from Buchanan. "We're using the Force to save the party," he says with a straight face. "I am Arizona's Luke Skywalker...