Also, check out this week's baseball-themed edition of Grand Rounds, hosted by Musings of a Dinosaur.

Personally, after that kind of interactive trip excellently combining video and user participation, the iPad page looks, well, talky. Apple wants to tell me how to use the product, not show me or let me experiment myself. It wants me to scroll down to do more than watch their marketing videos. It wants me to read about its specs, and I mean read; there's a lot of content packed in those pages, even if it's nicely offset with white space and images. Plus I constantly feel like I'm being called to look at other Apple products while I try to find out more about the iPad.

Sorry Apple aficionados, but I think this is one case where another company outdesigned (or at least outmarketed), and Flash actually seems to be the better course. Any comments?

Perhaps my favorite tidbit of information to come out of this carnival was that while President Obama shouldn't give up his day job, his speech writers and graphic artists could definitely jump to the late night show circuit in a pinch. Just watch this YouTube clip to see what I mean (hat tip to The Hospitalist Leader for the video reference). Be sure to go over and check out the other great submissions at the Health Wonk Review.

For my part, I knew the writing was on the proverbial Facebook wall when I read that North Korea joined Facebook. It didn't matter that they were subsequently removed, then rejoined (I wonder if that'll be a new form of cold war: nations unfriending each other). I had to accept the fact that a country mostly known for its decidedly unfriendly actions toward the world and its own citizens is more cyber social than me, one of the last people in the world not to be on Facebook.