Beware of ridiculously ostenatious iPads

Image in lieu of a picture of an iPad via Wikipedia because Zemata refused to give me something I considered acceptable; this is Mary McLeod Bethune, FYI

Greetings.

Jewish date:  5 Siwan 5770 (Parashath Naso’).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  Mary McLeod Bethune Week, International Museum Day, Visit Your Relatives Day.

Worthy cause of the day:  “Friends of the Earth U.S.:  Say 'No!' to Offsets, 'Yes!' to Real Climate Solutions”, “Repower America | Tell Your Senators: Time to act!”, “An inconvenient truth about the climate bill”, and “Help Wild Tigers Survive - The Petition Site”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Stanford’s Robot Car Slides into Parking Spot Like a Badass (video)”
• “Harvard Starts Heart Outside Body, Preserves Organs for 10 Days”
• “British Medical Association: homeopathy is witchcraft | Bad Astronomy”
• “Texas congressman uses porn to kill science funding”
• “Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I'm In”
• “Neanderthals not the only apes humans bred with”
• “Fat lips evolve at record speed”
• “"Google Flu Trends" Found to Be Nearly on Par with CDC Surveillance Data”
• “Baby Coral Home In by Sound”
• “Passwords, scams, and you”

Today’s weird thing is “Solid gold, diamond-encrusted iPad for the truly 'elite'”, which seems to your humble blogger to be ridiculously ostentatious and more likely to make the owner look like an idiot than impress people.  Enjoy (or mock), share the weirdness, and ḥagh sameaḥ.

Aaron