Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Let there be snark.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

This blog will pay for itself.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

This fight is for everything.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

In my day, never was longer.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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For those of you who have an iPad, please list a couple of apps that you like and use all the time.

No iPad? Hit shuffle on your favorite digital music device and report the first song that pops up*. No cheating.

(*) You can also do it if you have an iPad.

***Update***

Most Likely You Go Your Way, Dylan.

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  4. 4.

    dmsilev

    Document management: GoodReader (general stuff), Papers (academic PDF files)
    Time waster: New York Times Crosswords (free app; subscription access to puzzles)
    Board games: Carcassonne, Ticket To Ride
    Reading: Kindle, iBooks

  6. 6.

    Captain Goto

    “Make Mayan a Hawaiian” — Southern Culture on the Skids, “Dirt Track Date”

  9. 9.

    kindness

    Starmap. I originally got it for my iphone but the bigger screen on the ipad makes it even cooler.

  14. 14.

    Superking

    Netflix is a must, the Kindle app is nice. And I have a bunch of music apps including: Korg iElectribe, Korg iMS-20, Garage Band, Sunrizer

    The standard productivity apps are pretty good too–Pages and Numbers.

    Then get a bunch of games–Angry Birds, Osmos HD, Infinity Blade, Words HD.

  16. 16.

    scav

    Damn! Mine always comes up christmas. Fulfillment by The Boston Camerata. At least the next on is The Masterton Inheritance so I can listen to it.

  17. 17.

    Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther

    All right.

    Certain members of this commenting community have managed to drive me almost entirely away from one of the first blogs on which I ever enjoyed commenting. So be it. You know who you are, and I anticipate many pie-filled suggestions that I fall onto my fainting couch or some equally feeble attempt to convince me that I’m beneath contempt. Or some such.

    However — given that one of the main reasons that some corners of this community have become SO UTTERLY INSUFFERABLE is because of an entirely childish and frankly outlandish hatred of all things ABL — I did want to swing by and share this:

    Here ABL is on Boing Boing, being funny and fabulous.

    http://boingboing.net/2011/08/03/slow-clap-for-congress-sarcastic-youtube-meme.html

    Because she’s worth the internet’s time, and all y’all who spend your lives hating? Are not.

  21. 21.

    cleek

    Superchunk – Brand New Love

    FYI : pie filter update

    I’ve modified the FireFox version of the Balloon Juice pie filter so you can add (and remove) people from your pie list by just selecting their name then clicking a button. No more editing!

    The Add/Remove buttons will appear at the bottom of the comments, just under the “Submit”. When you add someone, the comments will be updated instantly. If you remove someone, the script will have to refresh the page.

    linky

  29. 29.

    Rorgg

    Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) by They Might Be Giants

    Yay for science!

  30. 30.

    Dr Dave

    Second movement of Keith Emerson’s Piano Concerto–
    a blast from the past, uploaded to my digital library from my vinyl copy of ELP’s Works, Volume 1 using my USB turntable. (This is a fun, if time-consuming, project, but cheaper than going out and buying digital versions of my entire vinyl collection.)

  31. 31.

    Sentient Puddle

    Apps: Garage Band. I got nothing to show off, but that shit’s crazy fun to screw around with for $5.

    Music: The Beatles – She’s Leaving Home

  32. 32.

    jacy

    “Giving Up the Gun” – Vampire Weekend

    Get the Kindle app if you have not already! It’s free from Amazon.

  34. 34.

    call_me_ishmael

    Warren Zevon – Desperados under the eaves.

    Although I was hoping for something more Anthrax’y…

  35. 35.

    cleek

    @Dr Dave:
    i’m doing that job for my father. he mails me stacks of LPs and i rip them to MP3. it’s slow and tedious, but i’m collecting a lot of old, obscure stuff doing it.

  37. 37.

    Dennis SGMM

    Jefferson Airplane – “Somebody to Love”

    I grow old … I grow old …
    I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

    Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
    I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
    I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

  38. 38.

    thruppence

    uh-oh: “Troubled” | Peter Gabriel | Passion: Music from the Last Temptation of Christ

  41. 41.

    uriel

    Just a few off the top of my head, all of wich (I belive) are free:

    Pulse- an excellent RSS aggregator

    Nebulous Lite- a very full featured text editor. I prefer it to pages in many ways.

    Opera- much faster than the built in implementation of safari

    Stanza, Bookman- for ebooks and comi- I mean graphic novels, respectively

    Pocket frogs

    What?!! It’s cute, damnit!

  42. 42.

    Dr Dave

    @Rorgg:

    Love that, but you have to follow it immediately with their retraction–

    Why Does The Sun Really Shine?

    The sun is a miasma
    Of incandescent plasma
    The sun’s not simply made out of gas…

    I played those one after the other for my astronomy class last year and they were most amused.

  43. 43.

    pragmatism

    stuck, go to songs and at the top there should be a shuffle icon.
    ETA, i forgot the reply button is back. just when i gave up caring.

  44. 44.

    The Moar You Know

    Gotta second Garage Band. There’s also some neat Teleprompter-type apps that are good for those of us who sing, yet forget lyrics.

    You can get a mic stand clip for the iPad, clip it up, and follow along. I love it.

  47. 47.

    Sentient Puddle

    @The Moar You Know:

    There’s also some neat Teleprompter-type apps that are good for those of us who sing, yet forget lyrics.

    That’s so me. What are some I should look at?

  48. 48.

    uriel

    Just to be clear, those are apps, not songs. “An excellent RSS aggregator” would be a shitty song title, even if Jellybean Benitez were involved.

  56. 56.

    Jane2

    Yeah sure, I’ve got apps for reading, productivity etc, but my favourite ones are time-wasting brilliance: Star Walk, Video Time Machine, and Angry Birds Rio.

  57. 57.

    Three-nineteen

    “A Cat Had a Birthday” — Sesame Street Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs

    Let me try it again.

    “Coconut Telegraph” – Jimmy Buffett

  58. 58.

    Sloegin

    Goodreader (don’t argue, just buy it).
    Evernote, Skype, Dropbox
    Pulse, ProPublica, Al Jazeera
    Qwiki, Merriam Webster, Medscape

  59. 59.

    Ronnie P

    iPad apps: if you don’t mind paying $6 for a game, Ticket to Ride online can be very addicting.

  60. 60.

    Gromit

    I can’t say I use it that often, but GarageBand on iPad is pretty amazing. Just playing around with the synthesizers is incredible fun, and an actual musician could do some really neat stuff with it. I like Paprika for cooking, and I use 2do to keep lists and reminders on my iPhone and iPad synced, though I expect the coming iOS 5 update will make it obsolete. Hulu Plus and Netflix are kind of obvious, I suppose.

    As for games, I’ll second the recommendation for Carcassonne, which is easily the game I’ve wasted the most time with on iPhone and iPad (it is a universal app). World of Goo is a must-have if you haven’t played it elsewhere (or maybe even if you have). Right now I’m making my way through BattleHeart, which is infectiously charming for what is essentially a distillation of the grinding elements of RPG’s.

  61. 61.

    eastriver

    iiPad apps:

    The Weather Channel (very useful, real time radar)
    Skyfire (for watching Flash vids)
    The Elements (something like 14 bucks, but worth it. really shows off what the iPad can do)
    Waste Land (cool, shows off the iPads muscles, plus having it will surely get you laid at either Bennington or Sarah Lawrence)
    NASA (for the amazing fucking photos)
    Netflix (for much better resolution than watching through Wii or one of the other gameboxes; really, it will knock your socks off. You can watch amazing movies anywhere there’s WiFi.)
    Zappos (if you shop for shit online)
    Tour Wrist (for a taste of tomorrow)

    The NY Times app is killer if you pay for the subscription. (I’m not sure if any of the hacks for getting around the limited-usage still work.)

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    GoodReader, instapaper, dropbox, PenUltimate, MLB AtBat, Watch ESPN, TuneIn Radio.

    First song up in shuffle, “Little Cabin Home” from Sweet Temptation by Ricky Skaggs.

  73. 73.

    cminus

    “The Envoy”, Warren Zevon. Does that make Zevon the first artist to double-up on this thread?

  74. 74.

    Scamp Dog

    The one I’m having the most fun with is Brushes, a painting app. I go to Denver’s City Park Jazz concert series on Sundays, and sketch the band. People are really impressed, which isn’t too bad for somebody who’s the weakest student in his “Fundamentals of Drawing” class. Good times!

  77. 77.

    Ryan

    You’re my Everything – The Temptations. Though, like everyone else in this thread, I have everything Zevon has ever done in my ipod.

  78. 78.

    Poopyman

    @kindness: @Trentrunner: Both of these. Also GarageBand and
    World Drums (?? Don’t have the iPad with me and can’t recall the real name). Good for killing time even though (or because) I’m not a drummer.

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    Hey, as long as we are talking iPads, over the weekend I volunteered to compile a list of our complaints/requests for the BJ mobile site.

    If you have anything you’d like me to include, just make sure the words “mobile site” are in your comment, and I will include your input.

  83. 83.

    Eric S.

    What is this “i” thing you speak of. Bob Dylan’s “No Time To Think” was the first thing the Zune through at me.

  84. 84.

    NobodySpecial

    “Under My Thumb” – Blind Faith. (Yes. Live at Hyde Park.)

    Only iApp I own is Couch to 5k.

  85. 85.

    Constance

    @Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Thank you. I think some of that seems to be shifting to John Cole if last night is any indication. No desire to participate in a dialogue, just a complete lack of impulse control that allows them to spew filth and hatred in all directions. Really unpleasant.

    I’m new to the whole commenting scene and I honestly don’t understand people who hang around just to spit on people. Obviously seriously psychologically damaged. Get a life, folks!

  87. 87.

    Jim

    iBook FREE
    Kindle FREE
    Weather Underground FREE
    Weather Radar Map HD Not Free but cheap, handy for storm tracking.

  91. 91.

    The Moar You Know

    @Sentient Puddle: I’m using ProPrompter, although it seems to be more set up for broadcasters. Like the cue points, though. OnSong also looks pretty good.

  92. 92.

    JadedOptimist

    Left Right by the Chemical Brothers. The next song that shuffles up – this is true! – is Fifty Million Frenchmen, by the late, great Sophie Tucker.

    What does that combo say about me?

  95. 95.

    pete

    From the mothership: Dance of Kali by Prem Joshua from Dance of Shakti. I have no idea what this is, it came from my girlfriend’s daughter about 18 months ago and I have never played it before. Sounds kinda cool.

    From the iPhone: Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana) by Jimmy Buffett, from the Bars part of his box set. Seems sorta appropriate nowadays.

  97. 97.

    Jim H

    Music: “8th Wonder” by The Gossip

    This is what listening to NPR’s All Songs Considered does for me.

  100. 100.

    Julia Grey

    Okay I was reading a much earlier thread, and commented/asked this question there, but since it’s so old I figured I wouldn’t get an answer, so I’m bringing it foward:

    Shorter Redstate: “Markos may be a former Republican but he’s still useful to us!”

    You do realize you’re commenting at Balloon Juice, right? John Cole, former Redstate contributor/editor, only left the GOP a few years ago himself.

    And Charles Johnson (?) abandoned the right-wing asshole line at Little Green Footballs. Are there others?

    All of which causes me to wonder, have there been any similar high level blogosphere defections in the other direction? Liberal to Conservative?

  103. 103.

    WaterGirl

    @Uriel:

    I thought maybe that was you telling us that you have to click link twice. :-)

    Edit: Cleek, stuckinred passes on his thank you for your new update.

  104. 104.

    Uriel

    @elmo:

    and my partner loves Pocket Frogs, but I dongeddit.

    That may be because your partner is a sane, rational human being of refined tastes, while you are a crazy person. Just a guess.

  105. 105.

    JonBoy

    Kindle is the book reader, Instapaper is great for reading longer posts off-line, TED for interesting news and if you use Facebook, Friendly is the best app for that (until they unlock the iPod version built into the O/S).

  106. 106.

    geg6

    I do not have any of that new fangled digital music stuff on any of my electronic devices.

    Mainly because digital music SUCKS. Can’t listen to its tinny noise.

    I’ll stick with my lps, thank you very much.

  110. 110.

    lamh34

    David Bowie – Let’s Dance.

    What can I say, David Bowie loves da sistas (one in particular, I.C.U. Iman) and the sistas love him back.

  111. 111.

    peej01

    on the iPad – ibooks, Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies. Trying to find a better browser than Safari. Don’t have my music on the iPad since I have an iPhone (no, I’m not an Apple geek).

  112. 112.

    freelancer

    @Marmot:

    Carcasonne

    When my friend was telling me about it years ago as a newish game for Xbox Live Arcade, kept pronouncing it “Carcass-One”.

    I said “That looks like a French word, you’re probably not pronouncing it right.”
    “Psssh, whatevs!”

  114. 114.

    Marmot

    @freelancer: Ha — and look here, I’ve gone and misspelled it. It’s Carcassonne, like you expected. What I get for taking German, I guess.

  115. 115.

    Tuttle

    Work iPad so my most used apps are Remoter (VNC client) and Prompt (ssh client). At home I use Netflix and Crosswords the most.

    First song, “The Todd Killings” by The Angry Samoans.

  116. 116.

    Brachiator

    @ Tim F:

    For those of you who have an iPad, please list a couple of apps that you like and use all the time.

    A most important tool for me: reading and annotating pdf files: GoodReader and iAnnotate

    For writing: SimpleNote and iA Writer
    For outlining: Index Card
    For reading Google Reader Feeds: FlipBoard, Reeder
    For learning what hot apps are out there: AppAdvice
    For Tweets: Twitter
    For Fun, NPR, This American Life, PBS
    For Work and iPad Connectivity: Dropbox, Evernote
    For great photos: Fotopedia
    For news: BBC News, Rachel Maddow, The Daily Show, NBC Nightly News, Guardian, CNN
    Amazing shit: NASA, Emerald Observatory, 3D Sun, Star Walk, PLoS Reader
    Productivity: Penultimate, Notability, Quickoffice, Google Voice
    Why The Hell Not: Movie Vault, Daily Motion, xkcd, TED, Aweditorium, Vevo HD, The Onion

  117. 117.

    jackmac

    Stoned Soul Picnic, Laura Nyro version

    iPad apps I use a lot: Pages (I’m a writer); various flavors of Angry Birds for diversion;

  119. 119.

    twiffer

    @cleek: i dinna see these buttons after downloading the filter script. thought it might be cause i set KillAddToAny=true; that does not seem to be the case.

  120. 120.

    Cronin

    Could’ve Moved Mountains / A Silver Mount Zion / “Born into trouble as the sparks fly upward”

  122. 122.

    evinfuilt

    Staring at my iPad I see my main apps:

    Evernote (can not live without)
    TWC Max+
    HBO GO
    Pandora
    Plants vs Zombies (most enjoyable time per $ spent ever.)
    GroceryIQ (if you have it on an iPhone as well.)

  123. 123.

    WaterGirl

    oops, forgot the music part… shuffle brought up Freedom Rider from John Barleycorn Must Die (Traffic)

    also forgot to say that if you have an iPad and you don’t have the zagg ipad keyboard & case, stop what you’re doing and go order it. i got mine after stuckinred mentioned it on here once, and i can’t figure out how i loved without it.

    oh, and Trentrunner: i just bought starwalk. I’ll let you know if you owe me 5 bucks, or if I owe you a debt of thanks.

  124. 124.

    donnah

    I like Bookworm for a time-killer. It’s a Popcap game.

    I also love SoundHound, which is perfect for me because I hear a song on TV or in a movie I’m watching at home and I wonder who it is. I hit my Soundhound app, it does a quick recording, and then tells me the name of the song, the band, where to buy it on iTunes, and sometimes even the lyrics. It’s cool.

    Also StormTracker for weather and Starwalk.

  127. 127.

    JerryN

    When The Circus Comes, Los Lobos.

    iPad apps: iTap RDP (to RDP into Windows servers), pTerm (to SSH into Linux servers) plus the built in VPN support let me do IT support from anywhere. Skype, Flipboard, Angry Birds.

  128. 128.

    burnspbesq

    @geg6:

    I’ll stick with my lps, thank you very much.

    I knew there was a reason I liked you. C’mere and gimme a hug, you big Luddite.

  131. 131.

    Julia Grey

    Uh, Emily . . . the man just asked people to share some choices in apps and tunes.

    It’s an OPEN THREAD.

  133. 133.

    Chet

    For those of you who have an iPad, please list a couple of apps that you like and use all the time.

    Cydia.

  134. 134.

    Jamie

    Reeder for wasting my life reading blogs.
    Nebulous for writing stuff – I’m a programmer, I like text editors.
    Things for todos.
    Netflix, because I don’t have a TV.
    OmniOutliner, because I write a lot of outlines.
    Shredder, because I’m a chess geek.
    PocketMoney – syncs with the iPhone version, and the only way I can keep track of money.
    Rebirth is an awesome music app.
    Civ Revolution is a huge time sink, if you like strategy games. As is Battle for Wesnoth.
    TypePlay is a nerdy fun typography/art app.

  135. 135.

    burnspbesq

    @geg6:

    It’s actually possible to get good sound out of an iPad, but it ain’t cheap.

    The first and most important thing is to load it with good files. CD-resolution AIFF or Apple Lossless.

    The second most important thing is good headphones. Depending on your taste and your budget, that can run you anywhere from $100 to $1,500 (my go-to headphones for mobile use are the Monster Turbine Pro Copper, which can be had for around $350).

    Finally, an external digital-to-analogue converter and/or headphone amp. Cypher Labs makes an external asynchronous-USB DAC called the AlgoRhythm Solo ($550, I think) which is reputed to be really good (I haven’t had a chance to play with it). There are a lot of good portable amps out there; I’ve had a Ray Samuels Audio Predator ($475) for about four years, and haven’t heard anything yet that I like better.

  136. 136.

    Jane2

    Ayieeee!! All these great suggestions for apps means I’ll have no time to work to pay for them all.

  137. 137.

    kestral

    First song is… let me hit the button here… mirage coordinator from Umineko no Naku Koro ni.

    What? It’s good jogging music.

  138. 138.

    tarylcabot

    Ragdoll Blaster 2 – great combination of shooting game with strong engineering background. You can buy the HD ($5) or non-HD versions ($2).

  140. 140.

    Ricky Roma

    Instapaper, Reeder, Flipboard, Twitter, Evernote, Simplenote, Omnifocus, Keynote for work.

    Carcassonne, World of Goo for Games.

    NPR, This American Life, PBS for news.

  142. 142.

    Mitch Guthman

    I have lots of apps from newspapers, magazines, BBC, France 24 and NPR. (Which I actually use quite a bit because some of the magazines I like are hard to get on the road). I have Kiosque, Kindle, Zino and iBooks. Dropbox (which I highly recommend), CheckPlease, Pages, FedEx Mobile and Delivery Status. Collins French-English dictionary, Le Robert, Bescherelle and Antidote. The gogo Inlight app. In the summer, I load iWatermelon (which seems to actually work). Sid Meier’s Priates. Find my iPhone.

    For travel, I like FlightTrack. There are a lot of great apps for travel that I load only when I’m traveling to the destination for which they are useful. Tons of great apps for London and Paris, especially if you use public transit or taxis. (If anybody wants my favorites, just ask because they make life in SF, London and Paris much easier. There are also some really great touristing apps for those cities—-but some crappy one, too )

  144. 144.

    Drive By Lurker

    (Long time lurker.)

    iPad apps:
    * Instapaper. Worth every penny.
    * Other reading apps in order of my usage: Kindle, iBooks, Stanza, Google books.
    * Netflix.
    * Epicurious. Seriously worth it.
    * TED. Fabulous talks streamed right to your couch.
    * Flipboard.
    * Amusement: NYT Crosswords, Flight Control HD, Osmos, World of Goo, and alas, Angry Birds.
    * Google Earth. Really cool + super creepy.
    * Dropbox, because why not. Pairs well with PlainText. Also SimpleNote for notes.

    Hope that helps!

  145. 145.

    Brachiator

    Hit shuffle on your favorite digital music device and report the first song that pops up*. No cheating.

    Just hit shuffle on google music beta and got Somersault (Danger Mouse Remix).

  146. 146.

    normal liberal

    @Brachiator: I second the Emerald Observatory stuff – quirky and not really necessary, but so, so pretty.

    Thanks to all for the iPad recs – I now have a long list of stuff to go download. It sounds like I need 3d Sun in my astronomy folder.

  147. 147.

    Mr Furious

    First song: “Cat Fever” Little Feat, from Sailing Shoes.

    Recommended Apps: I’m a magazine guy by preference and profession, so my apps skew heavily that way. The app I produce for Automobile Magazine is pretty sweet if I do say so, but it ain’t free. Issues of Car and Driver are free and quite good on iPad. EVO (U.K.) has the best car mag app out there’d, and a sample issue.

    Other good mag apps: Popular Mechanics, Esquire, Fortune

    Other apps: only non-mag app at the moment is Netflix. Indispensable for streaming.

  150. 150.

    Brachiator

    @Mr Furious:

    I’m a magazine guy by preference and profession, so my apps skew heavily that way.

    There have been recent news stories about the popularity (and relative absence of bells and whistles) of the New Yorker magazine app.

    They may discretely augment a story with a little video, or have an audio reading of a poem.

    But the coolest thing is that you can easily tap through all the cartoons in an issue.

    I also like the Economist app, and the ability to mark specific stories for later reading.

  151. 151.

    Allen

    “Make It All Okay” by R.E.M. (from Around the Sun).

    In a way, using the iPod app on my iPhone IS cheating, because I only have a very small percentage of my CDs ripped–in general my favorites.

  152. 152.

    dude

    Oh yeah by Daft Punk.

    I would also like to take this open thread to say I find Imani ABL to not only be awesomely smart and thought provoking, but also supremely hot. I had suspected this, but the slow clap video confirmed. To me, ABL will now mean A Badass Lasercat.

  153. 153.

    birthmarker

    My Back Pages by the Byrds

    I am getting an IPad Friday while the state is having a tax-free weekend. I am planning to get the 16gb wifi 3G. Since I don’t have internet on a phone, do I need the 3G? Or should I get the 3G for the day I have internet on the phone? Please be kind, I am techno-illiterate.

    Games– I play Bejeweled and Lumines on my ITouch. I don’t really “get” Angry Birds or PvZ. Even on the ITouch the Kindle app is good for short books.

    I am bookmarking this page for future reference!

  154. 154.

    Mr Furious

    Meant to say BACKissues of C/D are free, but my dumb iPad autocorrected it to “issues.”

  156. 156.

    Gus

    Please Don’t Bury Me-John Prine.
    Only thing I use the iPad for is reading books, web surfing and email.

  162. 162.

    Comrade Carter

    (01) Cold Lampin’ With Flavor – Public Enemy
    ——-
    (02) Alec Eiffel – Pixies
    (03) Final Straw – REM
    (04) I’m The Decider – The Real Baby Jesus
    (05) Working Class Hero – John Lennon
    (06) Strange – REM
    (07) No Apostrophe T – Tom Lehrer
    (08) The End – The Doors
    (09) American Idiot – Green Day
    (10) Mr. Bojangles – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
    (++) I’m Against It – Ramones

  164. 164.

    And Another Thing...

    Kindle, Netflix, Photoshop express, photogene, Petersons Feeder Birds of No America (includes bird calls), Astroware Sudoku, Angry Birds, Google Earth, Garage Band, Epocrates (medication ref.)Fotopedia Heritage. This last one is photos of the UNESCO World Heritage sites w/Wikipedia links. They are gorgeous pics and the ipad is a fabulous digital photo viewer.

  165. 165.

    RossInDetroit

    @geg6:

    I’ll stick with my lps, thank you very much.

    I like my old vinyl but I got accustomed to the remote control convenience of digital. As a compromise I modded a B&O turntable and added RF remote. Now I can start, stop, pause, backward and forward from anywhere within 400 yards.

    Because I’m a nerd.

  166. 166.

    YellowDog

    Honey Don’t, The Beatles (Live at the BBC)

    IPad apps: FeedlerPro (RSS feed reader–using it now to write this), 1Password

  167. 167.

    Jane2

    @birthmarker: I wouldn’t bother with 3G. There are so many wi-fi spots around, plus wireless capability, that I have as much internet as I want on my ipad.

  172. 172.

    pete

    @Julia Grey: Lib to Con bloggers? I think it’s a bit soon. Lib –> Con is a very traditional dynamic (Hitchens is only an example) but it usually takes a while, whereas folks such as our gracious host can have a Damascene conversion when the scales drop from their eyes. The former lefties who go bad usually suffer from something more like gradually worsening cataracts, accompanied by developing I-got-mine and finally severe Gerroffamylawn.

  174. 174.

    burnspbesq

    @birthmarker:

    Tough question to answer without knowing more about your lifestyle. I never felt like I needed 3G built into my iPad; I can get a wifi connection most places I want to use it. And now that my iPhone can be used as a portable hotspot, I totally don’t need it.

    So the question for you to ask yourself is, how often will I be stranded without an internet connection if I don’t have 3G.

  175. 175.

    Albatrossity

    “My best was never good enough”
    Bruce Springsteen
    on the album “The Ghost of Tom Joad”

    Amen, brother

  176. 176.

    Jennifer

    Boogie Chillun, John Lee Hooker (the original, aucoustic version that makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck)
    Next up, Guns of Brixton, The Clash
    Let’s Take it to the Stage, Funkadelic
    Loser, Beck
    I’ve Got the World on a String, Frank Sinatra
    If I Had a Boat, Lyle Lovett
    Hot Pants, James Brown
    Long Gone Lonesome Blues, Hank Williams Sr.
    …and so on and so forth.

  179. 179.

    burnspbesq

    @rikyrah:

    Everyone’s answer to that question is different. Here’s mine:

    (1) I can carry more books on my iPad than you can fit into any bag that will fit under the seat in front of you.

    (2) My iPad boots up in three seconds, has a better screen than your laptop for watching video, and doesn’t become useless when the person in front of you cranks their seat all the way back.

  184. 184.

    Richard Fox

    Sketchbook Pro. Amazing drawing tool for the artist in you. Buy a Griffin Stylus to draw in the program.

    Sketchbook Pro allows you to draw with your fingers, but how idiotic is that?
    (Okay, maybe not idiotic, but I need a pencil or pen or brush, damn it.)

    Best feature: if you make a mistake you can erase. Pure genius. Trying doing that with india ink on watercolor paper. Genius, I tell you. Have a good evening…

  185. 185.

    kay eye

    In Spite of Ourselves, John Prine and Iris Dement.

    British Library 19th Century Collection. The Best App!

    (Well, the Miro Quartet playing Beethoven came up on my shuffle but it sounded so insufferably elitist, so I waited awhile. Got Iris and John. Now it’s doing Little Richard. I’m going to shut it off.)

  189. 189.

    Fiasco

    Well, I may not be allowed to play because I use the Samsung Galaxy Tab (7″) that I’ve modified to also be my mobile phone. Anyhoo…

    DropBox
    PowerAmp
    Miren
    MailDroid
    Pacific Naval Fighter
    HBO Go

    First up on PowerAmp tonight- “Darling Buds of May” Brothers (UK).

    @Burnspbesq: What’s up? Haven’t seen you since the demise of the DBR PP Board (TNTDevil). Hope you and yours are well.

  190. 190.

    Dilford

    I know I’m too late but just got back from an evening meeting and wanted to try this “random” thingy one time. Up popped Television Personalities’ “Diary of a Young Man”. I had forgotten I even had this album (“And Don’t the Kids Just Love It”).

    There is a lot of seriously good, out-there music in the BalloonJuiceaverse!

  191. 191.

    burnspbesq

    @Fiasco:

    Doing well, thanks. Looking forward to the upcoming games in China. Yourself?

    Man, those were the days, weren’t they?

  192. 192.

    Derek

    Love and Happiness – Al Green

    Not particularly indicative of the overall theme of my collection. Another time:

    Tom Sawyer – Rush

    A little closer.

    Dana Gould – Frank Still Loves the Ladies.

    I think the picture is clear now.

  193. 193.

    Rincon Blue

    Phone’s random: The Blue Hawaiians – “Shakin’ All Over”

    iTunes’s random: Stan Getz – “Blues For Herky”

  195. 195.

    Skip Intro

    iPad – Flipboard, Terra browser, words with friends, feeddler RSS

    I was a teenage anarchist – Against me!

  196. 196.

    pbfishtaco

    My Father’s House, Bruce Springsteen (Nebraska)

    I aint got no ipad…..just a good old ipod played to death.

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