Jay-suss Freakin’ Lemon-Age Keyyyy-Rist! This is what should happen when you buy from a used car salesman, not a freakin’ authorized Mac dealer! Fuckin’ Geek Squad,  the total opposite of Genius Bar – you’d think  Microsoft would have invented it.

Best Buy – you’re dead to me, and to every other geek and their families and mailing lists. We hope you go bankrupt next year.

Bastards!

This Rabid Fanboy would like to give thanks for everything and to everyone this holiday season.

Especially, Dear Leader, both real and imaginary, for the love and encouragement;

Designer Tina Chen (I loved your work in Alice’s Restaurant and Hawaii Five-O );

Grunts Dante Araujo and Tom Pimental for putting this together seamlessly (BTW, Brinke and I need to know why we’re having nervous breakdowns trying to embed video in our postings, I’ve tried putting little marshmallows and a cinnamon stick in my rum-soaked hot cocoa, it seems to calm me down a bit but I’m nowhere near solving my dilemma, will acid give me a new perspective or maybe I should switch to ecstasy?);

All the other commenters and contributors, including faddah, name and the haiku writer and the rest, who turned blog commenting from a mere national pasttime into a full head-on contact sport. Keep this up, and we may receive recognition as a competitive event from IOCC. Fingers crossed.

My Fair Lady, for sticking by me when the other one bolted lasted year. (We need to get a new other one in our Christmas stocking this year sweety, preferably more “bosomy”, ‘kay?);

And the Universe for astounding me each and every day when I think it all can’t get more fucked up that it is – then – BOOM! – there it is – another Gordian knot to solve – thanks for never being boring.

For all those people girding their loins for Black Friday, a little reminder of what the holiday season is all about from our now ancient but beloved friend in Santa Cruz, CA.

We raise a Jello-shot in your honor, sir!

Happy Thanksgiving, Everybody!

You know how iTunes has many different genres/catagories to choose from.  They’ve added a new section in conjunction with concert promoter Live Nation, and it features..wait for it…..live concert tunes. 

“Cratering.”  A terrific word, very evocative.  Dictionary.com defines it thusly: “To fail utterly.”  This article says that very thing is happening to AOL Mail, which is vital to the company.  Why?  Nearly half of AOL’s homepage traffic came from email.  Other AOL properties like Mapquest, News, Finance and Living also depend on AOL Mail.  If the mail service loses its user base, it stands to reason other pages will suffer as a consequence. (Like the retro logo better than the new one?)

…Apple.  Noted Windows 7 lover Joe Wilcox provides all the details.  El Jobso shown here taking someone’s down payment on a new iMac.

The Big G is certainly in the news  today.  The biggest story is about a racially offensive image that appears when one does a image search for First Lady Michelle Obama. No comment from The White House…yet.

True to the rumors from last week, it looks like the guys in the lab are power-tweaking again.  If you want to use the new UI, follow these steps. 

Click on this link.  Guess what you get?  Four Google search windows, all at once.  So….if you wanted to do four searches at once, you could.  Has someone called Marissa?

Check out the original article and scroll down for an even better one. Basically, the Borg invited (and paid for) a bunch of hacks to attend some event where they could get info about mobile devices and the third screen and blah blah. More than half of the hacks were using Macs. Sweet.

Much love to dear reader John for the link.

In an effort to plug their new OS, Microsoft and New York’s Saks Fifth Avenue store decided to team up and make holiday themed display windows, featuring, er, Windows.  Problem being- the displays have a live Twitter feed, this being 2009 and all.  And those feeds are being interrupted by fervent Mac fans with comments like “Keywords for fixing a PC: virus scanner, spyware, bloatware, crash, BIOS incompatibility, wrong, scanner broken.“  There is no truth to the rumor Moshe and his team are anywhere near Saks.