The media were able to tour the new Apple Store on Boylston Street yesterday. Dan Moren with MacUser has some interesting thoughts on what's going to happen to the hollow glass column running down the center of the spiral staircase.

The public grand opening is at 6 PM today. 2,500 limited edition T-shirts are being given away.

Gizmodo says it's a good thing we're getting the world's largest Borg cube Apple store, because it will help us with that inferiority thing.

The Apple store on Boylston Street is set to open on May 16th at 6 PM. It is reportedly the largest such store in the world.

Xconomy reports on a local start-up that thinks it's found a way to make more efficient drugs - by substituting deuterium hydrogen in drug molecules for the more lightweight normal hydrogen.

Melissa Chang knows first hand how rare they are:

... For every start-up founder, I think, balancing a career with the rest of life is something to think about. But as a woman, the issue rarely leaves my mind. It adds urgency, pressure and stress. And I'm sure for some women, this trifecta of bad emotion is enough to keep them from starting that start-up.

Paul Levy, the hospital CEO who ditched his BlackBerry, now vows to fight the PowerPoint hegemony. He lists seven reasons he hates PowerPoint presentations, including:

... The slides are filled with Excel spreadsheets with tiny cells. How often have you heard this: "I know you can't read this from your seat"? Well, why put it up on a screen if people can't read it? ...

Pito Salas provides the evidence why people whining about how they'd rather be in Silicon Valley should stop it, already.

So the Globe has posted a follow-up on hydrogen, but it's just as inane as the first:

For example, an electrical current can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, but energy is needed to make that electricity.

Wow, I bet they have a scientificy, long word for that. Electrolysis, perhaps? Oh, and it might be really nice to mention that the chief problem with electrolysis is its hideous inefficiency; 50-70%.

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Fabulously Out There decided to switch from Verizon to Comcast for broadband when the Verizon phone rep offered to send out a technician to diagnose her broken broadband "between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m." She reports her experience with Comcast hasn't been much better.

Well, Grove Hall and Dudley Square, at any rate: $9.95 a month for wireless access, in the first phase of Tom Menino's citywide wireless effort.