I figured out how to run NPR and surf the web at the same time on the iPad. Multitasking, months before iPad iOS 4 is slated for availability.

1. Open up Safari and surf to your favorite site (I chose my Delicious.com network page, great links in there).
2. Buy an $8.00 radio from your local bodega and tune it to NPR.

The greatest thing about this hack is that you can continue to use NPR outside of available wifi zone’s (note: most iPad apps will cease working). You can also tune your NPR to MLB for the latest baseball game. No monthly, extra, or one-time fees required.

Inside Job – Fantastic episode of This American Life, “the inside story of one company that made hundreds of millions of dollars for itself while worsening the financial crisis for the rest of us”.

A hedge fund named Magnetar comes up with an elaborate plan to make money. It sponsors the creation of complicated and ultimately toxic financial securities… while at the same time betting against the very securities it helped create.

Great photographs of New York / He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died / Google makes a grand entrance into the embedded font game / The Only Summer-TV Guide You’ll Ever Need

100 million Facebook user pages end up on a torrent site – why no email addresses? Are those private by default? / “Problems existed from the beginning of drilling the well, Mr. Williams said. For months, the computer system had been locking up, producing what the crew deemed the “blue screen of death.” – How soon until systems like this automagically send real time error logs to the agencies governing them? In 140 character human readable form, of course. / Wikileaks – the world’s first stateless news organization. / Safari AutoFill Exploit Hands Out All Your Contact Info by Default / SKB Pens – I’m sold, just ordered my 15 pack, 3 each of red, green, blue and purple. / I’m really digging Jonathan Moore’s new Tumblr theme, Inspire Well. I put it to use on a new site for my daughter, to share pics and related stuffs in a format a little less stuffy than Flickr. / Speaking of iPhone sync stuff, keep iPhone notes in gmail. / Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943

The oil stopped flowing from the well around 2:25 p.m. Thursday when the last of several valves was closed on a cap that the company installed at the top of the well last week, Mr. Wells said.

Can you believe the guy who said this, is named “Mr. Wells”?

Mississippi Public Broadcasting drops Fresh Air because of Terry Gross’ Louis CK interview / Boomerang – Javascript that can measure the performance of your website from your end user’s point of view / 1930s answer to GPS / Apps on iPhone are way better quality – This review of why iPhone beats Android is similar to my experience. Poor touch capabilities, apps that were just embarrassing, and who the hell uses these things to talk on anyway? / Appsfire.com / Luxottica makes the following brands of sunglasses

Hulu Plus – It’s amazing how much people budget for TV/movies. One can only assume, Hulu Plus will actually be successful. / text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; / Web fonts at the Crossing / A jQuery based solution for customized checkboxes and radio buttons I’m using in a current project and am quite fond of. / artsy iPhone and iPad wallpapers / jQuery Fundamentals a large ‘must-read’. / Simple, multiple gmail from addresses on iPad / iPhone without setting up a bunch of email accounts. Just like your desktop based Gmail! / The 101 Best Sandwiches in New York / Bing Destination Map: Automatic Napkin Sketching of Maps = cute maps. / The Geotaggers’ World Atlas – cuz art is nice.

I don’t see myself using the iPad on the subway. I know it’s price tag amounts to nearly the monthly wages of the guy sitting next to me. Surely he can better spend the money I’ve wasted on this thing. I will however, use it in the park. While I’m often mistaken for the Greenpoint neighborhood native, Polish, my hip ass outfits are a dead giveaway that I’m really part of the gentrification. Why not add an iPad? As long as we’re not on top of each other in a tin can under the ground, I’m OK with people knowing that I make more money than them.

After just about two weeks w/ my magically revolutionary iPad, I’ll say that just like the conclusions Salon.com arrived at, I’ve been reading, reading, reading. Not books. I am looking forward to giving that a try though, as reading is really quite enjoyable on this thing. If only the iBook store had costs similar to that of the public library. Instapaper Pro is the must have app. I’ve re-tagged many a ‘toread‘ as ‘read‘ with afternoon breaks in the park. I also find myself actually finishing the editors picks in the NY Times Editors’ Choice app and very much so, admiring the photography in The Guardian Eyewitness app. It’s rare to read past the headline or take a minute to absorb, when a screen is involved. This thing has brought the focus back.

Throw in a handful of other great uses, like email for Susan, our shared calendars (yay for caldav), and actually deriving some pleasure out of the hundreds of photos we take weekly, via the photo slideshow mode… and this thing has totally replaced that large footprint laptop on the kitchen table in our teeny tiny apartment. So far, it seems to be the internet-enabled appliance we’ve all been promised since the dawn of the web.

Duh… eat real food and don’t drink soda: Princeton researchers find that high-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain. It’s pretty amazing though, to think that this stuff is in nearly every single thing that you buy. It really takes a conscious effort to avoid, which we all should be doing. / MapQuest Brings Free Voice Navigation to the iPhone / WPilot – A space journey in your browser – Proof of concept game built using HTML5 technologies. / Stay Focused – East coast skateboarding is the best in the world, naturally. Free video download. / Striking anti-war posters / Abstract City, Christoph Niemann art / http://www.jenniferdavisart.com / Facebook’s Plan To Automatically Share Your Data With Sites You Never Signed Up For / Twision, the first ever twitter television show makes a splash in Spain