Time Magazine online has two interesting pieces about the iPad. This is Harry McCracken's article (from his blog Technologizer), titled:
Will the First Real iPad Rivals Please Show Up?
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2018883,00.html
For a lighter view of Apple's revolutionary device, Time also offers this this earlier cartoon video
The Apple iPad and You: An Odd Todd Cartoon
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,64025998001_1957653,00.html
Which brings to mind the hilarious work of Ted Avery; it's a pity that Avery's cartoons are not freely available for everyone to enjoy.
—Michael Pastore is a novelist, and the author and/or editor of a number of non-fiction books including The Ithaca Manual of Style, The Zorba Anthology of Love Stories, and 50 Benefits of Ebooks: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Digital Reading Revolution. A new (2010) edition of 50 Benefits of Ebooks will be released on September 8, 2010. He blogs at Epublishers Weekly: http://www.EpublishersWeekly.com.