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I browse a few technology news pages every day as I catch up on the latest news in technology. (I have also been practicing with "palindromic" sentences.) I can see the latest gadgets to be released in Japan that I will NEVER want, much less need. Still, for some reason it fulfills some deep desire of mine to simply know of these products' existence. I think it's the same reason why some students at Whitman spend all their time reading Foucault "for fun." These type of people like to seem smart by quoting philosophy. While I enjoy philosophy, I think understanding the cusp of technology is much more beneficial because it is always changing. Foucault isn't going anywhere. I can go to the library now or 20 years from now and all of Foucault's books will be neatly organized alphabetically on the shelf. 20 years from now the technology of today won't mean shit to anyone but a few nerdy artifact collectors. I respect people who will sit down and memorize Foucault, but my deep understanding of the latest developments in technology is about living for tomorrow, not living for yesterday.

On to the point of my post. As I was browsing my tech news I saw an article about a new type of software being used on new cell phones. Blah blah blah. Its not interesting to me, and I browse these sites regularly, so I know nobody reading this would be interested. What I found interesting was the picture that came along with the article:



I am wondering what genius decided to grab the woman with caveman hands and ask her to hold the cell phone for the photograph. Even if I wanted a phone like that, I wouldn't buy that one simply because it looks so dwarfed against those mutant appendages. Perhaps my attention to detail is getting the best of me here, but the first thing I looked at when I saw that picture was the goddamn werewolf hands. The phone was an afterthought along the lines of "That tiny cellphone will soon be crushed by that troll's mighty grip!"