With less than 48 hours to go, the web is buzzing about the unveiling of Apple’s shiniest new toy. To be honest, though, when I see my RSS feed filled with posts containing the words “Apple” and “tablet”, I purse my lips and shift my eyes to the right a la Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada. I know, I know, technically I’m just adding on to the plethora of blog posts – feel free to point fingers at me and exclaim “Hypocrite!”

Admittedly, Apple has done an excellent job in generating a crap ton of hype for the tablet, but it’s burning out. Fortunately for them, the product is finally (and that’s a “finally” with the i and y drawn out) being revealed this Wednesday, so we won’t have to endure any more “Apple Tablet Has Been Spotted!11one1″ posts. I mean, it’s great that people are speculating, but by this point do we really need confirmation on the product via web analytics? On the other hand, there will instead be an influx of “AMAZINGEST PRODUCT EVAR” and “Ew, this sux so much lyk lolwut” review posts.

I don’t doubt that the tablet will be anything short of revolutionary in the tech world, as Apple seems to have a knack for taking on the First Mover role and succeeding. I’m sure that when it’s officially released in stores, I’ll be right there elbowing my way past thirty-something tech execs and thirteen year olds to get my hands on a demo. And then I’ll walk away after ten minutes of fiddling, with my curiosity satiated. If anything, what I’m really looking forward to is Lenovo’s Ideapad U1, which has the best of both worlds.

Anyways, it’s time to sit back and await The Big Event. I have to say, it’ll be pretty funny if they don’t end up announcing the tablet. However, I sincerely hope this doesn’t happen, as it would subject us all to another X months of rumors and speculation.

So apparently, Skittles has changed its homepage into a social media portal. I think the concept is pretty cool, though I’m not a fan of the execution. When I went to the actual website, I actually hit backspace to go back to the Google search results, because I thought I had clicked on the Wikipedia link for Skittles. Maybe it’s not that confusing- it could be the sleep deprivation kicking in , hah. Also, I personally don’t like the floaty widget windows because they feel like they’re in the way of the overall layout and design. Although in this case, one could say the widget is the only part of the website that’s really “designed”.

Lol @ the fact that people posted profane tweets once they found out Skittles had the Twitter search feed on its front page. Gotta love the internet <3