When the name of Gail Wynand became a threat in the publishing world, a group of newspaper owners took him aside—and reproached him for what they called his debasement of the public taste. “It is not my function,” said Wynand, “to help people preserve a self-respect they haven’t got. You give them what they profess to like in public. I give them what they really like. Honesty is the best policy, gentlemen, though not quite in the sense you were taught to believe.

From The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

In a way, iPhone users all got a huge upgrade today, yeah?

But in all seriousness, the iPad packs quite a punch for it’s cost—especially for an Apple Product. Maybe it’s an ideal substitute for a netbook for some consumers.

Recipe World Peace/Korova Cookies

When Dorie Greenspan included Pierre Hermé’s recipe for to-die-for chocolate cookies in her Paris Sweets cookbook, she called them Korova Cookies (Sablés Korova), after the restaurant off the Champs-Élysées for which Pierre Hermé created these cookies, not the milk bar in A Clockwork Orange. In her most recent book, she calls them World Peace Cookies, as her neighbor became convinced that a daily dose of these cookies was all that is needed to ensure planetary peace and happiness.