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Straight up: I ;m a little disappointed with the new iPhone 4S. I was hoping for more. My expectations were higher. I wanted something extra special, largely because I ;ve been waiting for it for stanley cups So. Very. Long. What was I hoping for that I didn ;t get A new form factor, for starters. Design matters. And Apple has always been a design-oriented company. When it pushed back the iPhone 4S rollout to the Fall, it just increased expectations that there might be a great new look coming along. Instead, it essentially identical to last year model. I was hoping for something bold and interesting looking. The iPhone 4 was just that when it shipped. So too were the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G. If I ;m going to buy a new phone, of course I want it to look new. Because of course we care about novel designs. If we didn ;t we ;d all be lugging around some stanley cup 10-inch thick Saved By The Bell-style brick with a 12 day battery life. But we do care about design. We do want things that look new and different and notable. Yet if you buy the iPhone 4S, you ;re committing to an old design for two more years unless you pay a premium to upgrade ea stanley usa rly . Because Apple didn ;t upgrade the phone design, that means that by the time you ;re off-contract, your phone design will be three and a half years old. That a lifetime in gadget years. Consider that the original iPhone itself only began shipping a little over f Wpah Taliban Ringtones Are Saving Lives in Afghanistan
This is my Fort Knox, my office, and my panic room. I ;ve laid the heaviest protective hoodoo I know around this place. Of all the hideouts I ever thought of running to when things got weird, a library was right behind a leper colony and a burning garbage truck. But here I am. I haven ;t paced the place off, but the library looks about a football field long, lined with two floors of books in hundred-foot stretche kubki stanley s of ornate dark wood shelves. The ceiling is domed and painted with scenes illustrating the three tenets of the Hellion church. The Thought: God and Lucifer arguing that if humans have free will so should angels. The Act: the war. It pretty but stiff and trying too hard to look noble, like a Soviet propaganda poster. The New World: Lucifer and his defeated, punch-drunk Bowery boys in Hell. He looks like a tent revival preacher selling snake oil to rubes, but in his own fucked-up way, t stanley quencher he slippery son of a bitch is trying to do right by his people. I ;ve made myself a comfortable squat over by a wall of the Greek wall, the stuff Samael told me to read. In a copy of a half-falling-apart Reader Digest condensed large-print book on Greek history, I found his notes it embarrassing that he knows me well enough that he left the info in a book written fo stanley becher r shut-ins and half-blind grandmas . He included names of people I could think about for the Council. If they ;re the Hellions I can trust, I ;m not ready to meet the ones