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The iPad: An Attractive, Thoughtfully Designed, Deeply Cynical Thing

For years, me and thousands of other techies have been wondering what comes after the Personal Computer as we've known it. With Apple's iPad, we caught a glimpse. If I had to pick one predominant emotion in reaction, it would be "disturbed".

Desktop Computer on a Stick
Building the Perfect, Fully-Automated City of the Future
CoN - nasty at the CeBIT
Shit That Siri Says
Protect Your Data During U.S. Border Searches

Dec 15	“The race is on to create lab-grown meat products.”
Dec 16	“Google Owns 28% of Your Brain.”
Dec 17	“If the tech industry gets its way, none of your stuff will be yours anymore.”
Jan 09	CaptchaTweet: Write Tweets in Captcha Form
Dec 14	“A novel experiment by a government to work with journalists and educators to combat the spread of online misinformation.”
Jan 04	The (Very Scary) People of Public Transit
Jan 11	How to Avoid Jury Duty
Dec 13	“We’ve received requests to add some artificial noise to the buses so that people can hear them.”
Dec 04	Bird Shit Advertising
Sep 21	“When Life Gives You Lemons.”
Jan 03	Darth Vader Surfing
May 15	Pat the Zombie: A Cruel Adult Spoof of 'Pat the Bunny'