I’m surprised no one has mentioned, in all this flap about the iPad—and I have my own theories about that name, I think it was Steve’s, pardon me, Teh Steve’s idea, and no one wanted to disabuse him. I mean, we know this thing has been His baby, for a long time. If a problem with the name didn’t occur to him—would you want to be the one to tell him?

Besides which—right, like we needed this—it sniffs out the immature, adolescent baby-sexists among us. A stunner of an observation, since it’s geeks what make up teh web, and geeks are what? Right you are.

Still, iSlate, what would it have hurt. Remiel, my favorite tweeter—okay, neck in neck with Lileks which is not really a fair comparison, as Lileks was to the Twitter born, Lileks has been tweeting for years. Nice they finally gave him a platform. Now if he could just figure out how to tweet old matchbook covers.

If you are a faithful reader of humorzo, and I would like a full report why not, or should you already follow Remiel, you will have seen my reblog of his priceless January tweet of Most Unlikely tablet names: “grannySmith, NeXTablet, LapSafari, iBalmer.” The iBalmer. Man cracks me up. Nothing funnier than genius frittering. Which now pretty much means twittering, doesn’t it.

Now this post had a point, and as is often the case, it has to do with beauty. The beauty in this case being the related loveliness of the old Salinger pages the New Yorker has put up, direct scans of the old magazines—and the old ads, from the 40s and 50s are marvelous—and another thing no one has remarked upon (of course, let it be said I don’t read the entire web) resembles the gorgeous book page on an iPad—it looks like, well … a book (oh that canny Apple genius.)
Whereas a book on a Kindle looks like what it is, a mechanical book. A substitute for a book, with every possible aesthetic stripped away.

Canny? Uncanny? Geeks too afraid of being thought effeminate (ha) to accept the fact that Apple products are always, unerringly beautiful? Whatever. I’m heartily sick, by now, of PC jocks, who are undergoing what may be their last revival of fury, the iPad has them tremendously stirred up.

I looked at a Kindle once. For about three minutes. That iPad page looks so good in Steve’s intro, so inviting, you just wanna gnaw a chunk out of it … or settle in for a good read.

Tags: apple, humor, ipad, steve jobs