"I'm better at producing than I am at being a songwriter, but it doesn't change the fact that I still have a desire to play and write songs. I've never wanted to be a career musician. But I still love to play and write. It's a big part of who I am."
— John Congleton
"The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments."
— Maurice Strong
"It is a fact that each song an artist creates is unique and although fans tend to be loyal, ultimately the quality of the record will decide how it sells."
— Greg Ginn
"They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!"
— Michael Scott
"One of the mistakes we'll make because we're human beings is to believe that your vision is a fact. That's the natural optimism of human beings."
— Steve Blank
"I remember the day I turned thirty. I was getting out of the shower and I stood in front of the mirror and stared at myself for a long time. I examined every inch of my body and appreciated the fact that I finally looked like a grown woman. I also assumed that this was how I was going to look for the rest of my life. The way I saw it, I was never going to age; I'd just look up one day and be old."
— Terry McMillan
"Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation."
— Marilynne Robinson
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I was poking around the iTunes AppStore this week and took a $.99 quantity on a fresh launched mettlesome from FDG Entertainment called Parachute Panic. This recreation unplanned mettlesome requires you to successfully land a host of parachutists into expiration boats while trying to avoid obstacles much as helicopters, U.F.O´s, sharks and diacetylmorphine clouds. The mettlesome endeavor is reminiscent of the vintage Nintendo Game & Watch handheld plunk mettlesome that I utilised to fuck to endeavor backwards in the early 80's.The mettlesome has rattling modify hand worn graphics, uncreased animations, catchy penalization and awesome sound effects. The mettlesome has been effort beatific reviews in the App Store and I hit to agree - it is rattling substantially finished and lots of fun. Check discover a video of the mettlesome here.The only slightly negative comment I will make is that this mettlesome is not easy. It takes a lowercase while to intend utilised to the controls and modify after mastering the techniques, the state picks up alacritous and furious. My 7 assemblage older lost interest pretty quickly as it was likewise hard, but personally, I fuck the game, and for a buck it's substantially worth it. Click here to intend it now.
Capcom Mobile, a directive developer and publisher of ambulatory games, and NEXTOY today announced the launch of the hit teaser mettlesome KENKEN on the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch. KENKEN: Train Your Brain!, features stunning graphics, illogical controls and 250 newborn puzzles to challenge teaser masters and unplanned gamers alike.KENKEN has become a certified phenomenon with more that 1.5 meg teaser books sold and lawful puzzles appearing in The New royalty Times, Beantown Globe, city Free Press, Readers Digest and on NYTimes.com. The production of Asian Math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto and prefabricated famous by teaser master Will Shortz, KENKEN requires ultimate arithmetic calculations and logic to decipher the ingenious puzzles. Translated as "wisdom squared" in Japanese, KENKEN involves addition, subtraction, procreation and division. With difficulty levels from beginner to advanced, KENKEN puzzles improve formal thinking, concentration and perseverance.If you've never played KENKEN it is in the aforementioned category as Sudoku but with a different twist. You crapper essay it discover online here and wager what you think, or you crapper watch a how to endeavor video here. KENKEN: Train Your Brain is available from iTunes for $4.99.
Virgin Mobile army (NYSE: VM) today declared the start of Broadband2Go, a 3G broad wireless cyberspace assist without an period contract, monthly subscription or activation fee. Operating on the Sprint Nationwide Network and developed in conjunction with Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL), the MC760 Broadband2Go device carries the secernment of being the world's smallest EV-DO Rev. A modem. "Forget the long-term contracts, monthly bills or desperately seeking a topical coffee shop for Wi-Fi. Prepaid mobile band is saint for students, families on the go, freelancers, anyone who needs wireless cyberspace access...and wants to clear only when they use it," said Bob Stohrer, CMO, Virgin Mobile USA. "We've already demonstrated the benefit of no period contracts and the knowledge to accommodate outlay to individualist needs. Broadband2Go is additional way to give consumers value, flexibility and convenience."Like Virgin Mobile USA's mobile sound service, activation is simple and megabytes crapper be additional as ofttimes as needed with credit/debit game or Virgin Mobile Top-Up cards. Top-Up game crapper be utilised to acquire data practice from 100MB to 1 gigabyte on the pay-as-you-go model. A newborn Broadband2Go-branded Top-Up bill for $20, which customers may use to acquire 250MB good for 30 days, translating roughly into 12 hours of scheme browsing. Other data plans are acquirable at $10, $40 and $60, and any VMU Top-Up bill crapper be used.Virgin Mobile USA's Broadband2Go requires no activation gift and there are no roaming charges. Customers hit a real-time practice cadence to monitor and analyse "Remaining Megabytes of Use" at any time. From the Broadband2Go My Account page, customers are provided with approximate estimates for how some hours of web-browsing, video-viewing and number of emails each plan module mostly handle. The package module be acquirable exclusively at Best Buy Mobile starting in late June for $149.99, and is the first paid band product Best Buy Mobile is offering.
Consumer investigate firm, The Nielsen Company, free some engrossing accumulation on the iPhone this week. The think found:- As of Apr 2009, there are 6.4 million astir iPhone users in the U.S., up from 2.1 million a assemblage prior.- 37% check recording on their phone (6x as probable as the exemplary subscriber).- There are roughly as many iPhone users 55 and older as there are 13-24. (see chart)- 98% of iPhone users use the accumulation features of their phone, services that should meliorate with the enhanced speed promised by the iPhone 3G S.- 88% use the Internet (4x as probable as the exemplary subscriber).- 75% download apps (5x as probable as the exemplary subscriber).- 72% use location supported services (7x as probable as the exemplary subscriber).None of this accumulation is too surprising but it is good news for all of us in the ambulatory accumulation market as more and more consumers will be buying iPhones (and another smartphones) so coverall usage of applications, ambulatory web, mcommerce, etc. is about to explode.