DSi XL is a great console. Well worth the price of entry. It's funny, I feel like it's the GBA Micro/SP2 launch all over again. The best version of last gen's hardware released amid rumblings about the next coming soon.
I don't think the dedicated portable gaming device will die out until somebody (read: apple) decides to start putting dedicated controls on their machines. I love my ipad but I haven't found a game where I haven't wished for real controls.

The best mobile port of nethack I've played is for the DS. Requires a flash cart, but it's really nice. Much better than the wince and ios ports, imo.
The DS is a pretty good platform for roguelikes. Shiren the Wanderer, Izuna, and the Pokemon Mystery Dungeons are commercial roguelikes. Shiren's probably closest to the form.

Still acted effeminate, still loved musicals, still had a house with incredible interior design.

Are you sure he wasn't just English?

For what it's worth, I'll leave that to the trolls, The Daily on the ipad is $39 a year. I've been using the free trial and it's got a bit too much sports and gossip for me, but no more than print tabloids if that's what you like.
The recently launched news aggregate app, "Zite," is fairly slick and I can see it becoming my usual news over breakfast.

Even the expensive ones squeal like a bastard. The dimming has gotten a lot better but they've really got to work on the balasts.

You don't need a computer, there's the camera connection kit for that. The way I see it, they built the best content consumption device that they could. I think what then happened is that Apple was completely and utterly caught off guard by the emergent market for content *creation* on the iPad.
There's audio interfaces for it now, MIDI interfaces, guitar rig. The last OS update finally added CoreMIDI so you don't need to buy a purpose-built interface, you can hang any class-compliant MIDI device (including controllers!) off the camera kit's USB port. Then there's all manner of photo manip and gallery/portfolio stuff available for artists.
Exciting times!

I don't care if it's terribad.
I don't care if it's Borderlands2 with a Duke skin.
It's Duke, it's 2011. I always bet on Duke and I'm letting it ride.

Better be playable at PAXeast, though, god damn.