Alas, as actual apples ripen on the trees and autumn descends, those days are gone. Last week, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone by $200, to $399. The early adopters who had been enjoying the frisson of exclusivity (and perhaps the attentions of the opposite sex) every time they pulled their iPhones from their pockets were suddenly aghast: "I just felt so used as a consumer. They hyped up the iPhone for six months and built up our expectations, and then they grabbed our extra $200 and ran."  http://reason.com/news/show/122485.html

Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings. http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=198