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Invitation to obsession: Apple's iPad 2

24.02.2011
Spitting into tea cups, poking goat entrails, tracing the movements of the stars across the heavens, dialing up the Psychic Friends Network -- these things pale in comparison to today's preferred method of divination: Parsing the invitations to Apple special events.

Another one came out yesterday. Mark your calendars, Apple fanboys and fangirls -- on March 2, life as we know it will change (yes, again -- ). Naturally, bloggers the world over are doing the "CSI: Cupertino" drill, dusting the emails for latents and hoping to scrape off a scintilla of Jobs's DNA.

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This one is a bit less obtuse than most:

Invitation to obsession: Apple's iPad 2

Could it be about anything but the (yawn) ? I think not. Not only is the topic the opposite of a surprise, but details about what the have already been beaten to a fine paste and spread thinly over the InterWebs. Really, what's the point?