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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- On the eve of the day of reckoning for the most-hyped gadget in recent memory, eager customers lined up Thursday, a few even braving torrential rain, to be among the first to get their hands on the coveted new cell phone from Apple Inc. The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at Apple and AT&T stores at 6 p.m. Friday in each time zone. It's been the focus of endless anticipatory chatte...

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SAN FRANCISCO ? On the eve of the day of reckoning for the most-hyped gadget in recent memory, eager customers lined up Thursday, a few even braving torrential rain, to be among the first to get their hands on the coveted new cell phone from Apple Inc.

The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at Apple and AT&T stores at 6 p.m. Friday in each time zone.

It's been the focus of endless anticipatory chatter and even parodied on late-night TV. It's hogged so much of the media spotlight, a St. Paul, Minn., minor league baseball team planned to spoof its porcine mascot by selling a real 'iPig.'

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SAN FRANCISCO ? On the eve of the day of reckoning for the most-hyped gadget in recent memory, eager customers lined up Thursday, a few even braving torrential rain, to be among the first to get their hands on the coveted new cell phone from Apple Inc.

The gadget, which combines the functions of a cell phone, iPod and wireless Web browser, will go on sale in the United States at Apple and AT&T stores at 6 p.m. Friday in each time zone.

It's been the focus of endless anticipatory chatter and even parodied on late-night TV. It's hogged so much of the media spotlight, a St. Paul, Minn., minor league baseball team planned to spoof its porcine mascot by selling a real 'iPig.'

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The phone, which goes on sale at 6 p.m. in each time zone of the United States today, had hogged so much of the media spotlight that St. Paul, Minn.'s minor league baseball team planned to spoof its porcine mascot by selling a real "iPig."

"This phone is going to blow everything out of the water," Tony Cecchini, 40, a San Antonio, Texas air conditioner salesman said while braving a downpour to wait outside an AT&T store Thursday morning.

Apple and AT&T Inc. - the phone's exclusive cellular carrier - have Advertisementnot disclosed how many units will be available at launch, adding to the frenzy that more typically accompanies the releases of video game consoles.

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Unlike nonfiction authors who go right to mainstream topics for their fodder, David Standish has more fun at the edges. ?I?ve always been a juvenile delinquent as a writer, drawn to topics that have been marginalized or seriously overlooked,? says Standish, a professor at Northwestern University?s Medill School of Journalism. ?Any topic despised by the intellectual establishment appealed to me.?

That tack is on full display in Hollow Earth, which was published in 2006, and will appear in paperback on July 1 (Perseus Books/DaCapo Press, $16.95). Hollow Earth follows the history of the various theories that another world resides below the Earth?s crust?unexpected stuff, considering the author?s r?sum?.

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