Links for Thursday April 1^st, 2010

• Apple's iPad is a touch of genius - Boing Boing: I liked this look at the iPad from Xeni Jardin. In particular, the "The Elements" application sounds pretty cool. And this, on the idea of eBooks:

  "This is what we wanted e-books to be all along. Rich, nimble, and dense with image and sound and navigability, right there inside the flow of the story. And this is what we wanted the web to feel like all along. We just want it to work, and we don't want to be aware of the delivery method while we're enjoying what's delivered."

  Food for thought.

• Tegra 2 faults may delay Android tablets: Apple doing their own CPU is increasingly making sense.

• Viewing Flickr videos on the iPad « Flickr Blog: Great news. But, I wonder if it's possible to embed HTML5 videos from Flickr on any website?

• Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over': It's bad when The Onion writes a fake news story, that 9 years later, ends up looking more like it was prescient than fake. (via Daring Fireball)

• Silicon Valley’s Island of Misfit Tech: Weird Stuff is great. It's like a computer history museum, where you can actually buy the historical artifacts.