Book Launch

On 17th September 2008, Guinness World Records releases the 2009edition of the internationally-revered-bestseller in the first-ever worldwide launch. 54 years and counting, the globally acclaimed book surpassed Jamie Oliver and Russell Brand during nine consecutive weeks at # 1 on the UK best-seller list in 2007. This year, Guinness World Records 2009 hits the scene even bigger and better than its predecessor with thousands of new and updated records, unique photography and – for the first time ever – 3D special features. In an eclectic mix of content, the upcoming edition remains loyal to old favourites Tallest Living Man, epic journeys such as Fastest Round the World Cycle and record-breaking athleticism The Mens 100 m, while introducing eye-catching new features such as life-size gatefolds of the new Shortest Man, 3D dinosaurs and pictures, and record sections devoted solely to Harry Potter and celebrities in the Hollywood Hall of Fame. THE BOOK IS IN THE SHOPS NOW!

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new eminem pictures from the release party for the new book The Way I Am (in stores oct 21) wich was transmited live october 15 2008

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I mean, there hasn’t really been much of a change regarding features in the newly launched iPad. Same apps, same internet feature, same email feature, same photos feature, same movies feature etc. Really, isn’t the iPad just a bigger screen really? I’m pretty fine with the small screen of my iPod Touch (except for reading e-books). There’s no point in spending more money at all is there?

I agree with Adam. It’s basically just a bigger ipod touch with an optional internet contract. ( i beleive it is pay as you go though) Mostly, IMO i think people will get it to show off. I doesn’t have a real computer interface, it probably doesn’t have any spyware or the ability to download stuff for the web. (maybe they thought the app store would cover EVERYTHING that needed to be downloaded to the thing?) It would be good to watch movies on a plane or in the car. I don’t beleive it has a camera and it uses flash memory. I don’t think they should be comparing it to a laptop at all. I’m guessing after 2-4 updates ( (software AND hadrware) if it even lasts that long) it will be pretty good. I might MIGHT only get it for the car since my and I go on trips alot but then again, my brother had this amazing dell laptop that can do that too so i probably will not be getting this

this film was shown at Junky Book Launch Party as cerabrating our brand new book – wordrobe surgery -

Short by Nick Sze for Junky Styling book launch. Short consists of fashions shows and images from the last 10+ years of Junky styling. All images appear in the book (available from all good bookshops and www.junkystyling.co.uk)

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This looks like a useless product with no market except for people with too much money or idiot Mac fanboys who will buy anything Steve Jobs poops.

-It doesn’t have an SD card slot or USB slot. You want to load all your photos on it? You need to buy a special dongle and attach it to the iPad. Ah yes, that’s convenient and cost-effective.

-You need to lay it flat and look straight down at it to type on it. It’s not like a netbook or laptop where the keyboard is flat and the screen is in front of your face.

-You can buy a keyboard accessory — you can spend extra money to turn a low-power netbook-type tablet into a non-portable desktop computer. Meanwhile there are products like Lenovo U1 Hybrid where you can slip the tablet into a netbook shell and turn it into a portable, foldable laptop.

-Apple wants to say it will be great for reading books and magazines, but it has a bright, glossy LCD screen. Meanwhile, electronic book reader devices use an electronic ink technology that doesn’t strain the eyes and can be used in the sun.

-You cannot multitask. You can only do one task at a time. If you want to surf the web and type into a document, you can’t. You need to exit one and then open the other.

-It costs $500, minimum, and has a 1 ghz processor. Products with similar specs and abilities cost less than that.

My netbook has a 1.6 ghz Atom processor and cost me $200. And my netbook has an SD slot so I can make the hard drive space as large as I want. And my netbook has USB ports. And I can do multiple tasks on my netbook. Fact is, tablets have been around forever and the mainstream market didn’t want them. Just because they’ve slapped an Apple logo on it, should people suddenly want it?

Seems like Apple is hoping this will help them launch their new book store. I think the iPad is dumb.

Potentially it already failed…

Its announcement had never generated such dissapointment, even Apple fanboys thought it sucked, so I cant picture anyone buying this if you can get a proper netbook for half the price.

more stuff to consider:

No multitasking
Ported OS
No Webcam
Ugly Bezel
No Adobe Flash (not even flash lite)
Incompatible 3G (mini sim, and limited networks)
Not widescreen (4:3)
No HDMI out (a new industry standard)
Not ammoled (Much better for reading books)
Expensive peripherals
Ported iphone Apps resolution are stretched not upscaled
iBook only available in US

Photos taken on 02.05.09

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Remember those old photographs taken during World War II, with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt, plus selected others, posing as masters of the universe? The victors were meeting to carve up Europe, divide the spoils, plan the future, map out a plan for our lives.
Of course they created a political and economic disaster, which is what happens when mere mortals come to believe themselves to be gods.
But there is something about those photographs that continues to inspire political leaders all over the world. They are forever cobbling together grand summits to negotiate important things on a global scale. If there are no issues, they invent them. The supreme goal: to appear in the history books. And the power and money that come in the meantime isn’t a bad thing either.
And so we are represented at the G-8 meeting by Bush the Great, who this time decided two things, both of which are going to cost you plenty.
First, America has decided, meaning Bush on your behalf, to forge ahead with a twenty-five-year-old idea of a missile defense system to protect against incoming nukes. In the talks on this issue, Bush assured us that "there will be a serious set of strategic decisions" to make, and surely he is the right one to make them!
But wait a minute. Wasn’t that idea a Cold War relic that never really went anywhere? The original plan was to move away from the "mutually assured destruction" of the US-Russian nuclear stand-off. Memory jog: our governments had originally planned to "protect" us by promising to retaliate against an oncoming nuclear bomb by launching a bomb against the other guys. That way if tens of millions of people died, at least the survivors would have the consolation of knowing that tens of millions of people in another country had died too.
To end such a ghastly policy was a good idea. But to replace it with a defensive strategy had its own problems. For one thing, it is enormously provocative for a nuclear power to build a defense against nuclear weapons. Consider which is more alarming: a guy pointing an assault weapon at you or a guy in bullet-proof armor pointing an assault weapon at you. The Russians in the 1980s were precisely right to be frightened by the idea of a US missile defense system. It suggested that the US believed it could survive an attack and might be more tempted to launch one.
Whether any of these high-flying gadgets would actually work is another question. A look at the record of government technology in light of NASA does not inspire confidence. But the key thing was the price tag of tens of billions. Truly the military-industrial machine is a harsh mistress, and demands a constant flow of cash.
What does any of this have to do with now? Bush is open to reviving the idea of a missile defense but get this: in cooperation with Russia! Putin was the first to suggest it. He wants the two governments to get together and put a nuclear defense system in Kazakhstan. But wait a minute. If the two great enemies are linking up to build a defense, don’t they need an enemy? Yes, they do and one can always be conjured up. So why not make it Iran? And so they did. And surely in the days ahead we will be reminded of how Russia, after all, was our heroic ally in World War Two.
But the idea that Iran, which has no nuclear bombs at all, is a threat on the scale to challenge both the United States and Russia is utterly implausible on its face. It is a case of a lion vs. a flea. What’s more, if there is a drive in Iran to get nuclear weapons, there is no doubt that the push is not offensive but defensive. After the US exterminated Iraqi civilization, does anyone doubt that Iran has good reason to worry, and a national interest in protecting itself?
Now we move on to the next great idea that Bush had at the G-8 summit. He agreed in principle to discuss reducing US CO2 emissions in the spirit of Kyoto. The whole world cheered. And the left wing in the United States was gratified, even if its spokesmen said that Bush didn’t go far enough.
The trouble with all this talk of emissions reduction is that it takes place at too many levels of abstraction. A century ago, the great economic challenge was industrialization, since everyone understood that industry was the future. Governments took the idea too far, and forced industrialization prevailed from the US to Russia.
And today? The elites desire exactly the opposite: deindustrialization of the most prosperous place on the planet. And of course they want to do this by force.
And let no one doubt that this is precisely what they have in mind for us. They want to take away our cars, barbecue grills, and leaf blowers, and curb the ability of producers to develop and transport their products. Lower emissions means nothing less than a lower standard of living for you and me — and this despite any proof that doing so would make the slightest bit of difference in global temperature trends.
On the margin, more regulations on the use of fossil fuels would also cartelize industry, making it more difficult for smaller players to compete, and raising the price of fuel ever higher. There are some people who might win from the deal: the largest companies and the government. But for the rest of us, this is nothing short of disaster.
(By the way, if Bush really wants to curb emissions, I can think of no better way to start than by ending the gas-guzzling Iraq War.)
What can we say about the Left that has made this its cause célèbre? American leftism once claimed to favor liberty, power to the people, and the disempowerment of elites. Today, they stand and cheer as a horde of power-mongering phonies gather in far-flung estates and plot the future of the world economy. So this is what leftism has come down to: the hope that world dictators will successfully conspire to wreck our standard of living.
Between the right’s love for military socialism and the left’s love of forced de-industrialization, together with the perpetual menace of politicians’ clamor to make history, the cause of liberty needs even more ardent defenders.
L.VON MISES
WAY

that goes to show you that the masters of the universe are not the ones that claim they are and try to make the universe their own, all them men did what they did to make the universe work for THEM and ONLY THEM.

it is the ones that go the extra mile to make universe alot better for future masters, that will take their work and make it alot better for the ones coming up for generations

Jelvis’s World Deli Tour hit Ben’s Deli in NYC on October 18 to launch David Sax’s new book, SAVE THE DELI www.savethedeli.com. Photos by Ayaka May Komatsu www.ayakamay.com.

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The launch in pictures

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Okay, so, I’m 12, in seventh grade, and I fit in perfectly. I am popular (but in the nice, modest way; not in the mean-girl-gets-quarterback-boyfriend way) and I am well-liked and often referred to as pretty or sexy or hot.

THAT’S THE PROBLEMMM!!!

I don’t want to be seen as a ‘hot’ bimbo who gives herself off to the opposite sex. I love magazines, hate school, am a D-average student though I have lots of potential in writing and in life, and I love shopping. I hate sports, and I’m scared of the ball, and when we have free computer time in school, while everyone is playing games on there, I’m on People.com or Bloomingdales.com looking for shoes. People think I’m shallow though I’m deep and profound and frankly, modest. It’s just that my way of expressing myself sounds shallow & bimbo-like. People love my personality, but don’t take me seriously. Therefore, sound quite astonished when they see my poetry and here my deep dialogue at sleepovers. They can’t believe this is how I am. Anyway, I want my true side exposed. I don’t want to be on the spot anymore.

I wanna be a model and actress while I’m a kid, and I have 1,300 photos of me on facebook, so people think I’m concieted. I wanna live in New York when I grow up and be a magazine editor of Vogue, eventually opening my own magazine company. I also wanna launch my own fashion line and production company and charity case, and I want to go to NYU and publish my own book before my college application. I also want to meet Jennifer Aniston.

Help me, please?
Thanks.
x
I wanna reinvent myself but that’s beside the point as I still wanna be myself. Any advice?
I am also pretty open-minded and often, people will assume I am going on 15 soon. (: It’s quite amazing! I’m really deep. I mean, I already think about the meaning of life and love at first sight and all that…And I guess I’m just on a higher spiritual level than most people my age. I’m really matured, in fact, and I am in the middle of my novel right now. I love writing! I will get myself into advanced classes and into sports if that’s what it takes. I also want to drive a Ferrari and I am gonna open my own book club.

I have my entire future planned out. I am hitting Vegas for my 21st birthday and planning to take a year off after High School to pay off my debts and travel Europe with friends.
I don’t think I am shallow at all, actually. I love reading novels by Nicholas Sparks and those Chicken Soups for the Teenage Soul, and my depth and thrive will pay off in the long run. I don’t let anyone discourage me because no matter how much contempt they put into putting me down, I have too much determination to care. I mean, I believe in myself. The only reason I’m asking this isn’t because I doubt myself–it’s too prove my faith. So, thanks to those who helped.
Prioritizing is my thing. I don’t wanna be an actress or model when I’m an adult; magazine editing is good, so I will need to go into journalism.

You are an amazing young lady. Do not allow how others see you to affect how you present yourself. People will always be judgemental, but it’s up to you to let it get to you.

Your ambition and focus are so refreshing, I am in awe of your depth and drive to be the best you can be! You come across as a mature minded young adult and not a 12 year old tween. That in itself puts you in a class above your peers.

Keep at it girl! Don’t worry so much how other immature kids react to you. You need to realize that by the time you have accomplished your goals, all they can do is stare in amazement.

I am rooting for you and am very proud of your intuitive mind, your highly intellectual outlook and sooner or later your true depth will shine through! You are the total package for any man.

Good Luck and never let anyone distract you!