Steve Jobs pitching the “modicum” idea for iMovie ’08
Wow! I just watched video of the Apple Event (Quicktime Link ) from earlier today and couldn’t help but notice that a good idea came to fruition in iMovie ’08. Hmm, where did that come from?
Of course it’s just coincidence, and tons of people probably thought videos deserved the same thing. I’m telling ya, though, I should be working at Cupertino! Sure, I arrive late for work, take long lunch breaks and push my work off onto others, but shit, having a good idea once per decade has gotta put one in the executive lounge, right!?
Left.
(See what I did there? You thought I’d go in one direction, but I totally went in the opposite direction. That’s what good executives do.)
Roger that, Mission Control, we have no date for tonight. I repeat: we have no date for tonight. Patch me into Guild Wars, over.
Satan Kicks out Crocodile Hunter for not wearing a costume
South Park keeps fighting the good fight. Despite the hubbub over the appearance of Steve Irwin, South Park lampooned another of society’s ills: MTV’s My Super Sweet Sixteen. Previously they made fun of those nerds who have nothing better to do than to hassle other players in the computer game World of Warcraft. Now they’re making fun of those super rich, stuck-up princesses who are completely delusional about their own self-importance.
In the episode, the effeminate Satan wants to throw a huge Halloween party, like the ones on My Super Sweet Sixteen. In the first step of appearing cool, he invites a bunch of celebrities at the expense of alienating some friends. Next, he declares no one can show up to the costume party dressed as The Crow since all parties seem to have “14 guys show up dressed as The Crow because they want to look hot and hook up.” Of course Satan’s costume is The Crow. However he forces one of his henchman demons to switch with him because the demon’s schoolgirl outfit is deemed hotter. Numerous other hissy fits are thrown, like when his Ferrari cake is replaced by an Acura cake because the three stooges, Dahmer, Gacy and Ted Bundy, messed up their delivery job. The Ferrari cake was chosen because “Diddy didn’t do it” (at one of his partys).
Eventually Satan settles down and realizes how truly awful he’s been acting, which is to say that all of those girls on My Super Sweet Sixteen are worse than the Prince of Darkness. Sounds about right.
I hope I spelled that right.
Whether his man-servant will be with him or not, comedian Zach Galifianakis will be doing a FREE show at the University of Wisconsin *cough* Milwaukee, on May 9th, 8:00 PM (doors open at 7:00).
Get ready to cringe from any audience interaction.
Stephen Colbert Hiding His Huge Balls Behind a Podium
Wow. I don’t know who has bigger balls: Colbert, or the guy who booked him to speak at the White House Correspondants’ Dinner. I just wish the video resolution was a bit better so we could see the President and First Lady’s reaction as Colbert went to sit back down.
AP report via Newsvine.
My first thought when I saw this was… okay, actually my first thought was, why am I not surprised… but my second thought was that maybe Apple could capitalize on this and really get some people to switch. Apparently, I’m not alone in this thought.
The first fifteen comments on that article were mainly focused on Apple gaining ground in the IT sector. While I think Apple will benefit from this added delay to Windows Vista, my money is not on the enterprise arena—mainly because Vista/Longhorn Server will begin shipping in November (supposedly). Also, Apple has pretty much said that they aren’t really interested in the enterprise market from what I hear, even though they make good shit. So it will probably be in the consumer/home arena where Apple will gain some ground, and it might not have anything to do with Microsoft. Let’s not forget a little thing that starts with a “3” and ends with a “0”.
On April 1st, Apple will celebrate its 30th anniversary and probably launch some interesting gadgets (video iPod? iPhone?). So I’m sure there’ll be a big surge in Apple ads and the like and more hopes pinned on the ‘iPod halo effect.’
AND (yep, there’s more) Apple’s next OS X upgrade (10.5 Leopard) should be made available this year, and is rumored to be crazy! Okay, I started that rumor, but you know there’ll be all sorts of goodness like improvements to Spotlight (better implementation of boolean searches); possible revamp, or death, to Finder; and of course eye candy.
So add that all together with another year of Windows viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and herpes, and it’s easy to see that Apple should be smiling (and I should finally buy that share of Apple stock before it’s too late!).
Holy fuck I’m an Apple fanboy
Real quick-like, then I’ll be outta your hair:
Are Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau having a fat-off?
Get it… Swingers? Zingers?
Eh?
Eh?
