MT, speaking of 'mature' skin, what liquid "base" would you recommend? Chanel used to make a great liquid foundation that they discontinued. Here's what I now recommend: a super high quality facial sunblock like "Ti-Silc". They make a 45 SPF - and a 60 SPF that contains a green tea antioxidant. Both have a light 'skin' tone tint that's slightly luminous. Let the sunblock dry for 5 mins and top it off with a loose powder like Estee Lauder's "Lucidity" -- applied with a fan brush (to avoid waste). If I want a more opaque look, instead of the loose powder, I use a Dior compact powder 20 SPF -- applied with a fan brush. It all wears incredibly well and stays where you put it. Use powdered blotting papers to beat back break through shine.

For under-eye circles, I've tried everything and nothing is better than the yellow toned Maybelline cover stick, that comes in a tube. Amazing wear and rock steady staying power. (Even better than YSL Touche Eclat.)

The best long wear lipstick on the market is "Maybelline Superstay 16 hour lip color". Stays through breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

This is an odd one, but after trying at least 10 different dry shampoos (from cheap to pricey), I found that Klorane makes the best damn dry shampoo on the planet.

BTW, does anybody know of any outstanding hair-straightening defrizzer product? Babyliss used to make an aerosol spray one that was GOD'S GIFT. I swear it was so good they took it off the market because it made a hundred other products and straightening appliances obsolete.

What about a temporary hair highlighter (usually called hair mascara)? Cover Girl used to make a "hair crayon" that you dipped in water to make streaks in your hair that stayed till you washed it out. It was so impeccable - to the eye and to the touch - a hairdresser couldn't tell the difference. I believe they took it off the market because it would have taken a huge bite out of the permanent highlight market.

Teeth: GC makes a product called MI Paste Plus that remineralizes/re-enamelizes tooth enamel. Major results in less than two months. Teeth also get whiter because it thickens the enamel which hides the naturally yellow dentin underneath.

For the most part you don't need the apps that just repackage web sites, because the screen is large enough to use the web sites as is. So that eliminated a lot of my iPhone apps right there.  

Here are some of my favorite non-games:
iBooks - free, no brainer! Comes with a free book, then of course you buy more for various prices.

Kindle app - free too. Any books you have already bought on the Kindle will transfer down.

Netflix - app is free, use your account to stream movies

Pages - Apple's word processor. Different to get used to, but nice.
Numbers - Apples spreadsheet. OK, but if you don't really need a spreadsheet on the Pad, I wouldn't bother.

MaxJournal - a nice journaling app, lets you incorporate photos.

News Apps I like:
NPR
BBC news
Thomson Reuters News Pro
All of these have taken good advantage of the user interface.  USA Today is all right, but not as good

The Guardian Eyewitness - gorgeous photojournalism app. New pictures from professional news photographers around the world every day. gives you a new appreciation for photography.

National Geographic World Atlas

Google Earth

Magic Window - relaxing landscape 'window' with multiple views
ArtStudio - drawing and painting
PhotoPad - photo editing
Virtuoso - piano keyboard
Nota - music reading 'lessons'
Star Walk - Astronomy
Big Oven Pro - lots of recipes

I have more, but that ought to keep you busy for a while!

The device is yummy - a beautiful gadget. A nice reader and I think it would be fun for games. I really like visual puzzle games (relaxing) and just finished all the "Boxed In" levels. Its a fun game and not too hard. I like Sokoban usually but the app is clumsy. KenKen is OK. Don't like the Sudoku app either. "Words with Friends" is a fun way to keep up a conversation with a kid, and let them know you can still dominate on a scrabble-like board.

But you are asking about non-games. I like to check the weather in several cities so "The Weather Chanel" is fun. "News Addict" is OK.

First up... whites 4 to 5.  Asked 'which child is dumb' the whites picked the two darkest colors.   Asked 'which child is mean, which has the skin adults like, adults don't like' etc.... whites showed white bias on a three questions 66-72%.

Black children up now.....smart, dumb, ugly, good-looking. White bias - 77% of 10 year olds don't like two darkest skin colors.  (The results stated that blacks have less bias but the show did not demonstrate this.)

Possible cause? Stereotypes.  Black parents more diligent.  Apparently, not much change from 5 year olds to 10 year olds.  I thought that experience would have changed over time.

It didn't take long for the new Miss USA to become embroiled in a scandal: Rima Fakih--an Arab-American from Dearborn, Michigan, who was crowned Miss USA on Sunday night--was exposed on Monday as a former champion pole dancer by radio show MojoInTheMorning.com, which posted photos of Fakih participating in the "Stripper 101" contest at The Coliseum Gentlemen's Club in Detroit in 2007.

It was a scene Saudi women's rights activists have dreamt of for years.

When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn't expecting much opposition.

But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping.

A member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Saudi religious police known locally as the Hai'a, asked the couple to confirm their identities and relationship to one another, as it is a crime in Saudi Arabia for unmarried men and women to mix.

For unknown reasons, the young man collapsed upon being questioned by the cop.

According to the Saudi daily Okaz, the woman then allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.  

He survived a bitter primary two weeks ago, but now the Indiana Republican reportedly plans to resign amid allegations of an affair.

According to Fox News, Rep. Mark Souder will announce his resignation today after it was revealed he had an affair with a female who works on his district office staff. The extent of the affair would likely have landed him in front of the House Ethics Committee.

The eight-term Congressman has been absent from Washington, D.C. most of last week, Fox News reported,
missing several votes. He has denied having an affair in the past.

Souder, who has been a vocal supporter of "traditional family values," first took office in 1994.  "I believe that Congress must fight to uphold the traditional values that undergird the strength of our nation," he says on his Web site. "I am
committed to preserving traditional marriage, the union of one man and one woman."

Indiana's Gov. Mitch Daniels, a Republican, will be required to select a replacement for Souder, which will likely spark a fierce political battle among Democrats and the GOP.

According to a Cornell University study, unattractive defendants are 22 percent more likely to be convicted than good-looking ones. And the unattractive also get slapped with harsher sentences - an average of 22 months longer in prison.

The study, "When Emotionality Trumps Reason," was authored by Cornell graduate Justin Gunnell and Stephen Ceci, a professor of developmental psychology. It examines how some jurors make decisions rationally, based on facts and logic, while others reason emotionally, taking into consideration factors unrelated to the case - attractiveness being one of them.

The study consisted of 169 Cornell psychology undergraduates, who were classified as either rational or emotional decision-makers through an online survey. They were then given case studies of defendants, complete with a
photograph and profile, were read jury instructions and listened to the cases' closing arguments.

In serious cases with strong evidence, there was little difference in the conviction rate between attractive and unattractive defendants. But in more minor cases, with ambiguous evidence, jurors were more biased toward the good-looking.

Tar balls have washed up on Key West beaches. If they are from the leading edge of the oil gusher, that would mean that some oil already has been entrained in the Loop Current for several days

Basically saying what we already know.  Young people are more accepting of immigration, mostly due to growing up in a more multi-cultural world.

Interesting stat from the article I did not know:

"From 1860 through 1920, 13 percent to 15 percent of the country was foreign born -- a rate similar to today's, when immigrants make up about 12.5 percent of the country.

But in 1970, only 4.7 percent of the country was foreign born, and most of those immigrants were older Europeans"

Also - this is just astounding:

"Arizona has the largest "cultural generation gap," ... between older Americans who are largely white (83 percent in Arizona's case) and children under 18 who are increasingly members of minorities (57 percent in Arizona's case)."

Finally, I'm with her: