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So whose buttons are getting pressed?
The main part of the image is given over to a large remote control, whose buttons are labelled "TV explodes", "cause nationwide blackout", "lose sound", "lose pictures", "launch rocketship", "house blows up", "emit snakes", etc.
"There are just two classes of men in the world," Mr. Wolfe wrote, "men with suits whose buttons are just sewn onto the sleeve, just some kind of cheapie decoration, or -- yes! -- men who can unbutton the sleeve at the wrist because they have real buttonholes and the sleeve really buttons up".
You feverishly wipe the Lobster Claw flakes off your wrinkle-free, TJ Maxx dress shirt whose buttons are holding on for dear life, so the 12 people you told about your diet don't suspect a thing.
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But when we're talking to a vast social network, we don't know whose buttons we're pushing.
Make sure you're actually a member of the political organization whose button you're wearing, or that you like the band whose patch you're wearing.
The consortium is also considering whether sites like Facebook, whose "like" button is used across multiple Web sites, would be considered first-party or third-party sites.
For the Significant Other, I bought, for about 5 euros, what I thought was a whimsical cellphone charm of a chubby little man called Super Mr. X, whose belly button was supposed to light up to indicate an incoming call.
It is when I spot Martin Tissot, out in the playground at going-home time, having a quiet chat with a boy whose top button is undone, that I realise my mistake is looking for the "big idea", as politicians are prone to doing in education – whether it be new buildings, new private investment or new mechanisms of parental choice.
To think that a madman could be running the world's most powerful country, to think that the Commander-in-Chief would use Twitter to mouth off about whose nuclear button is bigger or to call himself a "very stable genius," verges on the impossible.
You could write a whole booklet about the failings of this phone — a five-way controller whose middle button isn't Select, a tiny screen that fits only two lines of menu text at a time — but the worst part is how many steps it takes to do anything.
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