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"I wonder if when we look back at this month of iPad if we'll think what an amazing moment to have lived through, or if it will be like some guy with sideburns telling your dad about the reel-to-reel player in his carpeted van." It will be a nice side effect if Paul Ford's new freelance arc gets him posting on Ftrain more often

Google's making it very hard to use anything else for email

I feel like if I'd had an iPad in my hands the past three days I'd have written exactly what Henry Blodget writes here. Gorgeous, fun, a bit frivolous and unnecessary, and the first firm strike in a cultural shift to new computing models

More amusement on the iPad hype. From Fred Wilson, who it seems wanted to like his: "I am excited to put two Velcro strips on the back of this thing and mount it to my elliptical trainer. It's perfect for that application and my blog reading and occasional posting from the elliptical will benefit mightily from the iPad." Now there's some fine ROI!

iPad naysayer punditry is arguably as fun as anything on the iPad itself. Choire Sicha: "I don't need a $650 SCRABBLE MACHINE. I don't even need a ZERO DOLLAR Scrabble machine. If I wanted to play Scrabble, I'd spend more time on Facebook. And if I wanted to have a gigantic iPhone that doesn't make phone calls, and basically looks like a thumbprint and hand grease analyzer, well I'm sure that SAMSUNG makes a product that suits my needs."

"The insula, on the other hand, was most active when prices were higher than normal, suggesting that the function of this brain area when shopping is to keep us from getting ripped off. If we're used to see the George Foreman Grill priced at $49.95, the insula generates a stab of aversive emotion when we see it listed for $59.95. That unpleasant feeling is what keeps us from placing the overpriced object in our shopping cart." This is why I balked at paying $20 over MSRP for an accessory at my local bike shop, even though I'd have been happier just owning it already

Priceless, part two: Elvis Presley was once a Shabbos Goy, too. (add to your handy list of "things Obama and Elvis have in common")

John Cusack is guestblogging on Boing Boing. Who'd ever have guessed we'd have that in common?

Priceless: President Obama once worked as a Shabbos goy.

"The Snapper NXT identity [underwent] an evolution of the old typography, and it's a definite improvement. But the same can't be said for the 'NXT' part as it looks exactly like what you would imagine anything called 'NXT' would look like: it's pointy, it's trendy, it looks like it could be on any kind of next-generation product. And the gradients don't help any more than they do the new turtle."

"And I feel myself transported, just as you are doubtless being transported right now, to that one college lit class where pretty girls with long black hair talked wispily about Keats' 'Endymion' while a solitary fly buzzed against the window pane."

"Indistinguishable from magic. Incredible."—John Gruber
"Holy shit."—David Wertheimer

Nifty tool (via simplebits)

This is kind of insane

Nice integration, and at first glance, gives a more accurate route for my bike commute than ridethecity.com