The eyes kill me.

This is just gross. And absolutely engrossing. I could read it like a book, for hours.

Looks absolutely beautiful inside, and definitely something that Toronto needs more of. The Royal on College coming back from the dead a few years ago proved that independent cinema is not dead in TO.

Looking forward to seeing a flick there!

Enter the iPad. For my weekend reading test on the iPad I purchased Next by James Hynes. The novel, depicting the day in the life of a man who has flown to Austin, TX, at the height of a terrorism scare, has garnered rave reviews. Much to my surprise I enjoyed the iBook interface. I quickly settled into the book and enjoyed advancing the pages with a swipe of a finger and watching the animated page roll up. I didn't think the iPad was too heavy. I set the screen to the lowest brightness setting. But, compelling as Hynes' book is--and it's a fast paced romp--I grew distracted. I interrupted my reading to check Facebook, my email, and Twitter several times. Plus, reading on the iPad made me want to write on the iPad. I wanted to write notes on my iPad books. Worst of all for me, once I set the iPad down and turned off the light, I couldn't go to sleep for hours. Was the light from the iPad too stimulating?

This paragraph is pretty much why I do not think I'd ever use the iPad as a dedicated eBook reader; there is just too much impetus to do other things on the device, to close the book you're reading and, for a second (which turns into many, many minutes) get distracted by email, Twitter, Facebook, the web, and life in general.

I didn't realize there wasn't a dedicated GPU in the Nexus One until now -- that Snapdragon does EVERYTHING!

Wonderful picture, focusing on the similarities of people over time.

Check out bing.com today to see more of these incredibly cute animals.