It’s WTF Wednesday, so you know what that means! Steve Jobs’s head sculpted in cheese, of course!

(Via BoingBoing)

I’m not an elitist and yet, I have an iphone, and feel like I’ve been catapulted into a new, bad ass club where I am a member and damn proud. (Hello, long sentence. You are sexy.) I’m on it constantly. I’m one of those people that nods her head like I’m listening (and I kind of am) while we are…

Awww yeah. LaToya for the win. Mine is named the Beagle. It’s because my computer is Darwin, and the HMS Beagle is the ship that Darwin was on when he explored the Galapagos, leading him to conceptualize natural selection. Geeky? Yes.

Apple announced its new “casual computing” device yesterday — the iPad. Of course I think it’s cool, and if I had the spending money, of course I would get one. But you know what? I have a laptop, and I have an iPhone. There is a gap for something in between, but it isn’t that large. There are a few things noticeably missing from this device:

• A camera — nothing pointing out or in. This leaves no room for videoconferencing
• Multitasking — What if I wanted to watch Hulu while working on an iWork document?
• Telephony capabilities — Some of them access the AT&T 3G network — can we make calls with it?

Hopefully, we’ll see these in future generations, and hopefully by then I will be independently wealthy and can buy one. Or three.

Jon Armstrong, a tech blogger (and husband of Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com) wrote a great article about why the iPad is important on his blog, Blurbomat.

It’s nutty to think about “casual” and “computing” in the same sentence, but gamers said the same thing about Nintendo’s Wii. Pros looking for a new form factor portable tool are likely not the target. Nerds are not the target. People who read or want a less formal computing experience are totally the target. [Link]

Well said, Jon. I can totally this being used while sitting on the couch and catching up with my Google Reader feeds. I imagine I could use this to update my Tumblr without firing up the ol’ laptop. But when it comes to heavy typing, graphic designing, or even gaming (which I don’t do a whole lot of), that’s where my computer will come in.

I look forward to seeing how this changes and adapts to the needs of its customer base, and how our language and worldviews change and adapt to it.