When A.R. Rahman's flight from India touched down in NYC, he went straight to the Apple store to purchase an iPad. Hours later, he improvised an original song using a program called Bebot- Robot Synth.

Tablets, notebooks, and netbooks—there are so many options for mobile computing these days. But which one is right for you? I have no idea! But it's my last day at Gawker!

Oh boy—Michael Calderone is... teasing the upcoming Mark Leibovich story on the hellish "journalism-alternative" sweatshop that is Politico. On Twitter. The big story is about Mike Allen, as all of these things are.

"It's like a bad dream," said a newly nine-fingered man who lost an iPad to a robber who pulled so hard on the Apple bag intertwined around his fingers that it stripped his pinky to the bone.

As this Glee App Music Video makes clear, these guys will stop at nothing to date the girls from the show. Using some autotune, an iPad and their pure devotion, success is clearly all but assured.

Kids and cats love the ipad but it's a little different for man's best friend. At first, this Corgi is mystified by Apple's iPad, then, as fear sets in, he begins to panic.

The Prime Minister of Norway is stuck in New York because of that volcano in Iceland. Oh no! But don't worry: His press secretary told CNN that he "is running the Norwegian government... via his new iPad." [CNN] (h/t drunkexpatwriter)

Apple delayed the international release of the iPad by one month, to the end of May, citing overwhelming domestic demand. Not that the world is necessarily hungry for the tablet-shaped embodiment of American consumerism: Israel just seized 10 iPads.

The iPad- so easy, even the adorable Iggy can use it.

[Here's a wonderful chart, Unboxing the iPad Data by John Kumahara and Johnathan Bonnell, showing that iPads are being sold mainly in urban areas. You should have gone to the Apple store in Omaha. No lines! [via]

Justin Bieber (#Justin #Bieber #JustinBieber) has forgiven the president of the United States for mispronouncing his name. The conciliatory statement should stave off a Wild In the Streets sort of situation... for now.

You know how when you fly, you have to remove your laptop from your bag before you put it through the X-ray machine, to prevent bombings and such? Well, the iPad will be exempt from that little precaution.

Hipster Grifter+ iPad+ Porn= Internet traffic magic? Let's hope so!

Today at Gawker.TV, Jon Stewart discovers the loopholes insurance companies are using to screw over your kids, iPads are wasted on Regis Philbin, Christian Siriano's Bravo special, Whoopi's thoughts on Kate Gosselin's tabloid-themed dance, and some reflections on the iPad.

Kids these days. They can pick up new pieces of tech and browse through them like a pro. This iPad wunderkind's first experience with the machine shows how intuitive it can be. Another Apple Fangirl is born.

Today on Regis and Kelly, Regis declared that he was now "part of the internet" and showed off his new iPad, which he is of course competely powerless to use.

The iPad has been hailed as many things - savior of publishing, transformative device between iPhone and laptop, useless toy. Now that it has been released into the world and anticipation is now reality, it's time for some answers.

Gawker.TV: Will the iPad Save Publishing?

One of the most highly touted features of the iPad was its reported ability to "save" the publishing world from the dire straits in which it currently finds itself. Inside, the honest opinions of several journalists related to the issue.