Next week, PBS will air a special focusing on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, featuring interviews with Apple co-founder Ron Wayne, Ross Perot, Walt Mossberg, and Robert Palladino--Jobs's calligraphy teacher at Reed College. I just hope that Jobs's emails get the same melancholy touch that Ken Burns brought to Civil War correspondence.

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Sure, using a pumpkin as a case for your iPad might seem like a idea in this Halloween season until you a) accidentally forget to take out the candle, b) see it smashed by a bunch of teenage hooligans, or c) have to clean gross pumpkin gloop off your iPad. Or, on second thought, just carve your pumpkin to look like an iPad. It's way easier.

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You might be tempted to treat Siri like an intimate confidante, but as friend of the show (and Rogue Amoeba CEO) Paul Kafasis has detailed in a blog post, Siri just doesn't care about you--or your medical conditions. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.