Wow, I’m pretty sure if I owned an iPad it wouldn’t be able to do this.

Really interesting article on Steve Jobs’ liver transplant and subsequent push to pass a law in California that will require the DMV to ask you if you’d like to become an organ donor (which may double the number of transplant organs available there):

But something about his whole experience still bothered Steve.

What bothered him was that while he, a very wealthy man, was surviving his liver’s failure, others were not so lucky. Specifically, he was upset because, while he was able to afford the costs of multiple-listing and a private jet that could ferry him to any hospital in the country at a moment’s notice, others in California could not; they had to stay in California and hope. He knew that 400 people died hoping.

And so, in a departure from a largely apolitical career, Steve decided to do something about it.

Oh what the hell, everybody else is writing about it. Here are the best iPad pieces I’ve read:

• Why the iPad may be just what we need for Digital Inclusion
• Is the iPad the harbinger of doom for personal computing?
• Old World vs. New World Computing
• Stephen Fry’s total over-the-top infectious rave

Proving that it’s about the artist, not the tools, Jorge Colombo “painted” the 6/1 cover of The New Yorker on his iPhone.

Despite its obvious quality, I wasn’t going to link up The Onion’s Macbook Wheel report because EVERYBODY already did, but it makes for a nice two-fer with this xkcd strip.

Engadget embeds some Simpsons Apple mockery.