The Apple Store is open and the first orders have been placed. Delivery is scheduled for April 3 (and for those of us without Saturday FedEx deliveries, Monday, April 5).

We're on our way. Apple announced pre-orders for iPad would start today. The Apple Store is offline--that' the beginning of the process.

Programming and writing about iPad goes into high gear now. Subscribe to the newsletter or RSS feed and check back here to find out what's in the works.

John Cook at Skeptical Science has worked on an iPhone app (free) that provides a wealth of double-skepticism (skepticism about the skepticism). It's a great consolidation of the arguments, and a wonderful example of how apps can find a very specific role to play in public discourse.