The dog ate my homework

“A pad, as Apple either failed to grasp or simply didn’t care to,  is not something we historically associate with a cool-looking media browser. It’s something that fails us during gym class. Within microseconds of Jobs uttering the word, the parody-minded of the Web were rolling out their own versions of the device, in all its super absorbent, occasionally winged awesomeness. But the best spoof of the thing came in the eerily prescient – and already going viral — MadTV sketch from a few years back.” - from Salon.com