The whole point of Lego is the durability, which makes it perfectly appropriate use of plastic. I played with mine for over a decade and then they were given to another young child. Also these look nasty like something that was decaying.

I seem to recall that the original OM1 was around $300 with 50mm lens in 1973, which is around $1455 in 2012 dollars.

Tablets gave this great feature called zoom, and most books can easily change type sizes.

Where to start.

You can rent textbooks from amazon for the kindle app on your ipad and save a lot.

Charter schools proven to work?

A lot of the benefits could be had by using eink devices and open source etextbooks. With eink kindle or nook type devices the costs would probably be close to 1/10 of a tablet and 10x the battery life. Of course the interactivity will not be as robust as an iPad, but you could easily have interactive tests that…

No external phone pocket? $88-$124?

Unless you are giving up soda for something with significantly less sweetener in it (ie unsweetened red zinger ice tea) I wouldn't bother. Drinking a glass of sugar water is only marginally better for you than soda.

You seriously believe that if Gawker got a call from Amex, Visa, and Mastercard that they wouldn't back down in a millisecond? The only people who could get away with it would have to either be totally incognito, or have nothing to lose.

Welcome to the reality of the Corporate States of America, whose motto is the Golden Rule: He who has the gold makes the rules.

When I look at these speculations, I wonder what will you do with the new one that you could not do with the ipad 2. None of these except siri come close to a significant change in functionality. How about stereo cameras for 3d capture of gestures like the kinect? Or letting people use a thumb drive or sd card for…

It is pretty cool, but you could make something that looks nearly identical in about an hour using veneer.

"At one point in every stroke, the whale's movement "stalls" when there isn't enough lift to keep it from sinking. "

Sure they carve like a surfboard, but they also let you propel yourself by wiggling a lot more effectively than a regular skateboard.

Spend an afternoon in the Apple store and count how many people are there to replace their cracked iPhone screens and you will realize how silly this rant is. Sure, seatbelts wrinkle your clothes and helmets mess with your hair, but they exist because the alternative is worse than a little fashion handicap.

A friend of mine could not figure out why his phone's reception had gotten so bad (1-2 bars less than usual), so I looked at it and it had this exact same case on it. We took the case off and it was just fine.

So her valuable lesson was to not to ever leave her phone where an asshole can get to it.

This guy should be in jail, if for no other reason than to keep him from doing any more "parenting".

Any stick blender would be more effective than that.