"What you’re seeing in the industry’s reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock." - - @FraserSpeirs http://bit.ly/d8VPxv

"Our actions bridge the dimensions of difference between fantasy and reality." - @Lola

"...Flash will turn into something like Internet Explorer." - @Gruber http://bit.ly/aX8Khf

"big tech companies have been trying to get the genie back in the bottle. It's the nature of bigness and corporateness" http://bit.ly/d6CFLx

"some of us envisioned the world we live in today, only... the upside of networked thinking, never the dangers." http://bit.ly/d6CFLx

reading @DaveWiner's "Should we trust iPad?" http://bit.ly/d6CFLx (his links lead me, directly and indirectly, to some previous articles.)

"Many people will criticise the iPad for being a walled garden, but it has the open internet..." - @Jaggeree http://bit.ly/bfFtEv

reading @Jaggeree's "Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion". http://bit.ly/bfFtEv

"the Internet is an integral part of the iPhone OS (that) you can tinker with to your heart's delight" - @JoeHewitt http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

asking @Al3x: do you think the ease of modern development tools compensates for closing (abstracting away) the system to users?

comparing the different perspectives of hacker/tinkerers @Al3x and @JoeHewitt.

"the iPhone/iPad platform itself could hardly be more open to tinkerers of all ages." - @JoeHewitt http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

"iPad is an incredible opportunity for developers to re-imagine every single category of desktop and web software." http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

reading @JoeHewitt's post about the iPad. http://bit.ly/9S7kjV

"The iPad... (is) a detriment to the sort of hacker culture that has propelled the digital economy." - @Al3x http://bit.ly/db66lc

"The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing. It is a digital consumption machine." - @Al3x http://bit.ly/db66lc

thinking @LouisGray overstates "the iPad does about 90% of what you expect from a traditional $1,000 to $2,000 laptop". http://bit.ly/btsQz3

reading @LouisGray's "iPad Wins On Casual Computing, Content Consumption". http://bit.ly/btsQz3

reading @Gruber's "Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad". http://bit.ly/ddZPaw

"You have to appreciate... how well Apple plays the vertical game (and) how much we also need the horizontal one." http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

reading @DSearls' "Up the creek without an iPaddle". http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

reading @DSearls' "Up the creek without an iPaddle". http://bit.ly/cQD7RE

“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” - Gertrude Stein (via @CruftBox's http://bit.ly/cnvDLb)

market domination by any proprietary system ultimately rallies competitors to open standards, the only viable alternative. (re: @PEGonTech)

reading @PEGonTech's "strategic implications of iPad". http://bit.ly/bG9ZHl

clearly, the MacBook Air was a bi-product of earlier development of Apple's iPad tablet computer.

ZuluKane.com: A yellow jacket nest engulfs the inside of a 1955 Chevrolet... http://bit.ly/6kPf1x

ZuluKane.com: "Many of the canyons and ravines in the San Gabriels — the Big Tujunga, the Pacoima .. http://bit.ly/6URMXy

"if you’re not slightly embarrassed by the first version of your product, you haven’t launched soon enough" - attributed to Reid Hoffman

ZuluKane.com: why growing local is inevitable - Jeff Rubin speaking at The... http://bit.ly/6ONT9S

"most interesting... is not the nodes on the network, but the type, density and flexibility of the connection between" http://bit.ly/7pcG5l

"it's easier to predict stupidity than cleverness." - Cory Doctorow http://bit.ly/68uQ5u

"The difference between success and failure is almost never just one factor. It’s the balance between many factors." http://bit.ly/7Mhwg6

ZuluKane.com: Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home after release from POW camp,... http://bit.ly/4SBJzc

"if I’m excited to play around with something, it probably doesn’t belong in production." - Maciej Ceglowski http://bit.ly/4X9aVp

"Uncertainty is a kind of liquidity." - Kevin Kelly http://bit.ly/7VQxYB

"I no longer to try remember facts, or even where I found the facts. I have learned to summon them on the Internet." http://bit.ly/7VQxYB

"My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest." - Thomas Jefferson

"outside of people that know what they’re doing, (Android is) leading the rest into a forest with wolves in the dark" http://bit.ly/59fXzJ

"We need MP3 for words." - @Chockenberry

"(the collective sigh of relief) leaks out through the weatherstripping of (Apple's) legendary Storm Door Of Silence" http://bit.ly/86qcez

"Where Google is about the wisdom of crowds, Facebook is about the wisdom of friends." - Elliot Schrage, Facebook VP http://bit.ly/5feJsB

ZuluKane.com: USS Macon ZRS-5 (1933 via x-ray delta one) http://bit.ly/7Gr9lW

reading at @Gruber's reasonable speculation about Apple's much alleged "tablet" portable computer. http://bit.ly/4XrM99