pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag"Government/Legal/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/chrysler/" rel="tag"Chrysler, LLC./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a/pa href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20081118/ANA02/811189954/1128"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/nardelli.jpg" //aChrysler still makes cars? Apparently so, and CEO Bob Nardelli was on Capitol Hill yesterday with his colleagues from Ford and General Motors, warning that the Pentastar is in serious danger of exhausting its reserves by early 2009. Chrysler's share of the $25 billion in aid the automakers are asking for stands at $7 billion, though at the current rate, that money wouldn't last long, possibly about one fiscal quarter. Senators are concerned that the automakers will turn into a monetary black hole, but the Detroit CEOs are trying to plead the case that securing some federal help will make it easier to emerge out the other side of this downturn. br /br /Nardelli did a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20081118/ANA02/811189952/1128"pledge to accept a $1 per year salary/a if it would help sway those with the purse strings. It would have been nice if he'd made that pledge to help his company and workforce, instead of it just being a token gesture to help him pick the pocket of the American taxpayer, but the $1 salary, which mimics what Lee Iacocca did during Chrysler's last near-failure, may play better than Alan Mulally's concern over a potential retention problem if the management is actually held accountable. Rick Wagoner divulged that he'd cut his salary by half. We think CEO salaries of a buck are fair - shoot, you can a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/18/buy-a-pacifica-get-a-pt-cruiser-for-a-buck/"still afford a PT Cruiser/a on that pay. br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.autonews.com/article/20081118/ANA02/811189954/1128"Automotive News/a - sub. req'd]br /br /br /p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/chrysler-could-be-broke-by-new-years-nardelli-would-work-for/"Chrysler could be broke by New Year's, Nardelli would work for $1/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autonews.com/article/20081118/ANA02/811189954/1128Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/chrysler-could-be-broke-by-new-years-nardelli-would-work-for/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1376374/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/19/chrysler-could-be-broke-by-new-years-nardelli-would-work-for/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SxCenH1ZnQBGAxMa-lrV4uysAR0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/SxCenH1ZnQBGAxMa-lrV4uysAR0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=qKaQEyLY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=qKaQEyLY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=G7d5ei9a"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=G7d5ei9a" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/vxmr4HIcle4" height="1" width="1"/

From the first time Steve Jobs demonstrated 'the pinch'—the two-finger gesture used to zoom in and out...

Hi,

I have a new 2.53 Unibody. I love the gestures - I have ditched my mighty mouse for good!

The only issue is that the 4 finger gesture to switch apps (sideways flicking motion) brings up the list of apps correctly but selecting them can be a pain. Even though you can scroll left or right with a finger you cannot select a application without putting the cursosr over it. Which is a pain if your cursor is at the bottom of the screen which mine often tends to be (no idea why possibly because I auto hide the dock).

Any way of changing this so that I can scroll through the apps then single click on the one I want? I appreciate the cursor is somewhere else but I cannot be the only one that finds this... annoying?

Neil

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I haven't read Twilight, but a friend who has described it as chapter upon chapter of Kristen Stewart's character swooning over Robert Pattinson's youthful 108-year old vampire. Males the world over are running for the hills -- but maybe they shouldn't. After all, the horror-romance has a long and venerable history. The juxtaposition makes sense: just like clowns can become scary with just a small tweak in their make-up, love stories can turn into horror stories by edging just slightly toward the sinister. I have some hope that Twilight might be creepy rather than gooey; we'll see soon enough. In the meantime, here are a few examples of films that have done a nice job with the horror-romance combination.

1. The Fly (1986) - I actually think that Cronenberg's take on The Fly is the scariest movie I've ever seen, albeit for reasons having little to do with the romance between Jeff Goldblum's Seth Brundle and Geena Davis's Veronica. (I'm generally freaked out by genetic weirdness.) But the film gets much of its poignancy from their relationship, which both sets things in motion and brings them to a close. Consider that Brundle tries his invention on himself out of jealousy, imagining an infidelity that didn't exist. And Veronica's final heartbreaking gesture is one of both pity and love.

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A recent New Yorker article paints a short, complicated picture of the artist currently known as Prince in which the star -- a noted practitioner of the jehovah's witness religion -- responds to questions about social issues.

A PerezHilton source says the New Yorker misquoted Prince regarding homosexuality. The New Yorker maintains that its story is accurate.

"You've got the Republicans, and basically they want to live according to [the bible]," says Prince in the article. "But there's the problem of interpretation, and you've got some churches, some people, basically doing things and saying it comes from here, but it doesn't. And then on the opposite end of the spectrum you've got blue, you've got the Democrats, and they're, like, 'You can do whatever you want.' Gay marriage, whatever. But neither of them is right...

"God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, 'Enough.'"

At the other end of the literary respectrum is PerezHilton. The publication claims an outraged source within Prince's camp accuses the New Yorker of misquoting Prince. The source also apparently claims that the New Yorker's reporter, Claire Hoffman, did not record the interview, which could make it hard to unravel what really happened.

"Contrary to what a recent interview with the New Yorker is reporting, a source close to the rocker tells us that Prince was grossly misquoted and misinterpreted as not down with gay rightsm," reads a post on the site. "Apparently, the interviewer did not even use a recorder... What His Purpleness actually did was gesture to the Bible and said he follows what it teaches, referring mainly to the parts about loving everyone and refraining from judgment. 'We're very angry he was misquoted,' says our Prince insider."

However, the New Yorker stands by its story, as a spokeswoman confirmed to Wired.com on Tuesday morning. It sounds like this Prince insider may have been doing some damage control for his client, whose views may come as a surprise to some of his fans.

See Also:

• My Way or Norway: Prince Sues to Obliterate Tribute Album
• Prince Shocks Music Retailers by Giving Away Album
• Prince Points the Way to a Brighter Future for Music
• Video: Prince Covers Radiohead's 'Creep' at Coachella

Illustration (courtesy of the New Yorker): Tom Bachtell

Ben Smith / The Politico:
Cabinet post for Clinton roils Obamaland  —  Barack Obama's serious flirtation with his one-time rival, Hillary Clinton, over the post of secretary of State has been welcomed by everyone from Henry Kissinger to Bill Clinton as an effective, grand gesture by the president-elect.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/androidmulti.jpg" width="494" height="401" /Some resourceful folks at the #android IRC channel and a href="http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2008/11/17/proving-the-g1-screen-can-handle-multi-touch/"RyeBrye/a, after realizing that the G1's Synaptics touch screen might be able to handle multiple inputs, say they were able to re-enable some commented-out code in the phone's touchscreen driver and log some multitouch gestures. The lack of multitouch in the first Android phone was a minor disappointment, albeit an understandable one mdash; encroaching on Apple'sa href="http://gizmodo.com/5021912/apples-multi+touch-gesture-patent-has-so-many-combinations-its-a-shocker" software patent territory/a probably wasn't on the top of Google's to-do list. But this wouldn't be the first time HTC has released a phone with hidden multitouch, and it is without a doubt the most intriguing. /p pThe revelation that the a href="http://gizmodo.com/5039281/htc-diamonds-hidden-multitouch-revealed"Diamond has latent multitouch/a (not to be confused with the "Covert Multitouch", a notorious and questionably legal pickup move pioneered by our own a href="http://gizmodo.com/people/acovert31"Adrian Covert/a) on its bezel was more interesting that it was exciting mdash; the likelyhood that anyone would develop an app to utilize it was pretty low. With Android, we can at least hope the the flourishing dev community and open software design will be enough to lead to a simple patch and some app love for this capability. [a href="http://www.ryebrye.com/blog/2008/11/17/proving-the-g1-screen-can-handle-multi-touch/"RyeBrye/a via a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2008/11/17/g1-capable-of-multi-touch-input-looks-like-it/"Crunchgear/a]/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=b62f1189c7f4dd2a34ded9a16057156a" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=b62f1189c7f4dd2a34ded9a16057156a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=OgmZVxYd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=AZDOzLGM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=XGaqwliU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=XGaqwliU" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/gizmodo/full?a=qAJHzeAA"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/gizmodo/full?i=qAJHzeAA" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/f2ebB9-CG1Q" height="1" width="1"/