Moses v Jobs v Hitler

From Brand Republic: First it was Moses. Then it was Steve Jobs. Each brought a tablet into the world, and judging by the hype surrounding the latter, the iPad is about to deliver salvation of its own...

The visual possibilities of the iPad, if it takes off, were abundantly clear - an attractive, full-colour device that can upload content onto pages in real time via WiFi or, in the case of the more expensive models, via a third-generation mobile phone connection. No wonder, then, that many in London, as well as in San Francisco, believe the iPad will change publishing forever...

Simon Waldman, who heads up digital publishing at Guardian Media Group, says that Apple has made "a significant effort to improve the digital viewing experience", which means publishers will now have to go "above and beyond" their existing website strategy ... However, Waldman warns the effort of designing a product of such quality - for what will remain for a long time a niche-platform - will be expensive and complex.

Few doubt the iPad heralds the prospect of a revolution for the news and magazine business. But with higher development costs and future business models so uncertain, there is no evidence it represents the kind of break that will improve the underlying economics for publishers decisively.


Interesting.

IWOOT #10 iPad Dynabook?

'Some tech mavens believed the new (Apple iPad) device might finally fulfill the promise of the "Dynabook." This is a device conceived four decades ago by the visionary computer pioneer Alan Kay as a prototypical personal computer (this was before Kay actually conceived the first personal computer at the legendary Xerox Palo Alto Research Center). The Dynabook, he wrote in 1972, would be “a tool, a toy, a medium of expression, a source of unending pleasure and delight." It would be a device with which musicians could compose and authors write, teachers teach and children learn. It would offer electronic access to the world's libraries. It would have a high-quality flat screen and a keyboard. It would be less than 4 pounds.

The Apple iPad is 1.5 pounds, but in other ways it still falls short of the Dynabook, especially in the inadequacy of its keyboard. (Though it will accommodate Brushes, an onscreen painting program available on the iPhone.) It's still a device better suited to distributing than to creating content...'
 
Early comment on the Apple iPad launch courtesy of the LA Times

Louboutin + iPhone = Style

Christian Louboutin. Apple iPhone. Style with a capital S.
Enough said?

Win 'em both (on The Sun), of you're desperate.

CL's website is excellent, as you'd expect from the height of style...

An Education (2009)

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl (beautifully played by Carey Mulligan) in 1960s' suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a suitor nearly twice her age. BAFTA-nominated. Quite captivating in its own way; low-budget, with BBC funding and obviously good PR behind it, but, really, is it that special? 
IMDB 7.7/10 is an accurate assessment, I feel.