Any change to the original cover is welcome. Lord knows I want to be cool and laugh at this awesome "satire," but I don't really get it. It seems to say, "yeah, right, you idiots, Obama and his wife are secret Muslim terrorists." That's not enough to make it great satire. There was a similar joke on SNL years ago. Phil Hartman played Ronald Reagan as a doddering old man in public, but a tireless supergenius behind closed doors. It was a hilarious sketch that actually had an implied critique of America's hand in world affairs, as well as a critique of Reagan, who probably didn't really know what was going on. The New Yorker cover is missing that extra layer. Without it, it's just smug sarcasm.
(With apologies: Is there anyone more tedious than a guy who tries to tell you how wrong you are for laughing at something?)

Princeton can use a guy like Arman.

I love you, Boing-Boing. But not as much as I love my Miquel-Rius notebooks:
http://www.pendemonium.com/stationery_miquel.htm
Believe me, I have spent years searching for the indestructible back-pocket notebook with graph paper. This is it. And apparently, it works with fountain pens, although we all know there's nothing like a Uni-ball Gel Impact for keeping things smooth.