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In addition to the home button disappearing from the iPad, we’re told that this change will make its way over to the iPhone as well. Our source said Apple employees are already testing iPads and iPhones with no home buttons on the Apple campus, and it’s possible we will see this new change materialize with the next-generation iPad and iPhone devices set to launch this year.

That’d be one of the dumbest decisions Apple ever made. Remember the iPod shuffle that didn’t have any buttons? They put the buttons back in the next revision and touted it as a ‘feature’. If anything, I think the iPhone should have one or two more buttons, not fewer.

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Antonio Cromartie has a way with words, calling Brady expletives. I think the funny part about all this is that all Tom Brady ever says in return is “I’ve been called worse” or “we’re just here to play football on Sunday”. A trash talking team is trash itself. I’ve grown to hate Rex Ryan and his team more and more just because the guys talk way too much.

Tony Massarotti thinks it’s fear. I’m inclined to agree.

EDIT: Apparently Boston.com now has a “We Love New York” page where fans are sharing “faint praise” for the Jets. I love it.

Maybe some of you guys caught this on the Daily Show. I just watched it today in its entirety and found his response very agreeable – I’ve embedded the video below. Definitely take a few minutes out of your day to watch it.

Note that although I label this post as “Politics”, I don’t think the Giffords shooting should be politically charged at all. It was a horrific tragedy and that’s that. But as Jon Stewart says, we really should consider our rhetoric so that we don’t seem like we’re encouraging things like this to happen.

I once read a tweet that said:

Should a “D” even exist in school? One school district says you either make an A, B, C or an F. What do you think about that idea?

If D were to be removed, failing would constitute anything below a 70 as opposed to anything below a 60. Off the bat, that prevents students from aiming for a D- and finding it acceptable. If passing is considered “acceptable”, and you get a passing grade that is labeled as “poor”, is poor considered acceptable?

The other end of this are the students who do put in a lot of effort and end up with D grades – these students would end up failing instead of just squeaking by. Making such a change would mean we would need to support those kids even more to make sure they can at least hit 70, then work even harder to get them above that.

We should already be aiming for students to get at least C grades – all students can do better than “poor”.

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While Hayward’s pricey ship whipped around the Isle of Wight on a good day for sailing — breezy and about 68 degrees — anger simmered on the steamy Gulf Coast, where crude has been washing in from the still-gushing spill.

Um, okay. So BP CEO Tony Hayward took one day off to go do something personal. What, is he not human anymore? Yes, the oil spill sucks and I can’t even begin to imagine how devastating it is for people in the affected areas. But he, the CEO of a company, taking a mere day off to enjoy a bit of personal time shouldn’t be something to go up in arms about. It’s not a big deal. The article also makes a reference to people getting upset with President Obama and VP Biden for enjoying a round of golf on Saturday. What are they supposed to do, work 24/7? These people are human beings and they have lives and they need little bits of time off from their job, otherwise they’ll break down under pressure and fail to be successful (some people think they’re already failing, but not taking breaks will assure they’ll do worse than however you think they’re doing right now).

I just find it silly when things like make the news. Hayward was relieved of day-to-day duties of managing the oil spill, anyway. Yeah, he’s definitely at fault for taking risks and taking shortcuts when it came to drilling oil, but this has nothing to do with the fact that the man, the human being, just needs a little time off. If you were in his shoes, you’d probably want to do the same thing if you had a $700,000 yacht that you wanted to see race. I know we don’t always like spokespeople, but I don’t think Robert Wine’s so far off when he says, “He’s spending a few hours with his family at a weekend. I’m sure that everyone would understand that.”

One person also said, “I think everyone has the right to do what they want in their free time, but he doesn’t have the right to have free time at all.” Everyone has the right to some free time.