Arbitrary Secondaries

“By deliberately corrupting the most basic functionality of their customers’ computers, Sony broke the rules of fair play and crossed a bright line separating legitimate software from computer trespass. Their actions may be civilly actionable.”

I guess this “inside” parody of the “Switch” campaign has been around a while, but it was freshly funny to me (3.3mb AVI)

“Try it for 30 days — send it back if you don’t love it”

“Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked”

Evidence that the Mac’s one button mouse has long created bad mousing habits and increases the risk of carpal tunnel syndrome

Your newspaper of the future?

“This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen”

“Why Switch when you can have both?” Indeed. I hope to try this with three monitors ... one with P-I-P TV.

You’ve probably seen incomprehensible warning dialogs from Windows ... here’s one from the Mac

“When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware - none of which are available for the Mac platform - it doesn’t make sense for me to ‘switch’ to a Mac at this time.”

“Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.” Hmm, I hear there’s a MiniMac coming...

It’s actually a submarine maneuvering room console, plus some Photoshop

The man is standing next to the biggest wheel mouse I’ve ever seen

“They want to poke fun at Redmond about copying ideas and then turn around and rip off ideas and implementations like this wholesale?”

Slightly larger than an index card, yet runs WinXP on a 30 GB hard drive and HDTV display. Really.

“On a Mac, there is no button. You eject a disk via the operating system. Which assumes that you have a bootable operating system. Which I didn’t.”