Here’s an interesting mash-up of Apple videos to make your month.
LINK

I know this as nothing to do with Macs or anything but in my daily perusal of science blogs I stumbled across this startling bit of information:
Lesbians respond differently than heterosexual women, researchers find.

Lesbians react differently to the powerful sexual chemicals called pheromones than heterosexual women do, a new Swedish study finds. However, lesbians […]

The truth of that matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he were the president of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off. –George W. Bush
St. Louis, MO 10/08/2004 Second presidential debate

Woman may face charges over keeping ball
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A woman may face charges after she reportedly refused to return a child’s ball that was given as a Christmas gift but then kicked into her yard by a child.
A Marion County deputy and the child’s mother say they plan to pursue charges against the […]

“Looking forward, 2007 is likely to be one of the most exciting new product years in Apple’s history.”

At every party I went to over the holidays, at last one person who currently uses a PC told me that they planned on getting a Mac!I’ve been the lonley
Mac wonk for years - vainly trying to explain why something better was
better than, well, the crap that people kept buying. I’d just about
given up explaining […]

Software for Starving Students is a free collection of programs organized for students (but available to anyone).
They’ve gathered a list of best-in-class programs onto one CD (one for OS X, one for Windows), including a
fully-featured office suite, a cutting-edge web browser, multi-media packages, academic tools, utilities and more.
LINK

One of the greats of western art!

Walmart’s Zunes, now with porn?
It’s not the first time, nor the last, that people will find porn on (supposedly) new or recycled consumer electronics. This time it happened to a family in Southside Chicago who purchased Microsoft’s Zune from the local Walmart for their 12 year-old daughter.
The daughter, who says the box looked like […]

Long, Hodgman win ‘Bobby’ awardJustin Long and John Hodgman, the actors who portray a Mac and PC from Apple’s current ‘Get a Mac’ advertising campaign, won a 2006 Garfield Bobby Award in the Best Performance, Male category from Advertising Age.
The hands-down winners this year are Justin Long and John Hodgman.
The 9th Annual Bobby Awards honour […]

Small plane crashes into raw sewage tankTuesday, December 19, 2006
A small airplane apparently took a nose-dive into a tank of raw sewage near Gilroy on Monday afternoon.
Gilroy police Sgt. Kurt Svardal said authorities have no idea where the plane was from or where it was going. The aircraft came pretty much straight down into a […]

It’s not the drugs honey, it’s location, location & location.
Woman tells cop she bought ‘bad crack’
Mon Dec 18, 11:39 PM ET
HAWTHORNE, Fla. - A North Carolina woman was arrested after complaining to a police officer that the crack cocaine she had just purchased wasn’t very good, authorities said.
Eloise D. Reaves, 50, approached the Putnam County […]

Apple Matters has let the crab out of the pot by telling the story of AppleLink Personal Edition.
This isn’t anything to be proud of. Back in 1987 or so, Apple did a smart thing by creating a really great internal email system called AppleLink. This was years ahead of the web, and was one […]

Like most of the trade press, Apple Insider is frothing about the non-existent Apple iPhone.
… an analyst for Morgan Stanley who retains reputable industry contacts, recently corroborated evidence of a dual-model strategy through her own proprietary checks. She told clients in a research note this week the phones will sport a metal-clad enclosure and feature […]

Mele Kalikimaka Ya’ll

Mac gift ideas and hints from Scott and Carmen.
Bad Apple Tech Support
Pekelo plays this time about Kahoolawe
Tea by Tetley’s with Peanut Butter Cups

Just out of curiosity: several people have raved to me about the joys
of G.mail; Mac’s mail is still the best, right?  I try to tell them but
they won’t listen.  What’s the one thing that we have that they don’t? 
I’d like something to tell them so they’ll go into a corner to ponder
their predicament!
Google mail […]

Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) — Apple Computer Inc. may serve as its own wireless carrier if it delivers an iPod-based cell phone next year and rely on the company’s network of retail stores to sell service contracts for the device, UBS AG said.
Bloggingstocks has just received an interesting tip that the Apple iPhone will have a […]

According to people who figure out this sort of stuff for a living, between twenty-five and fifty percent of those currently buying Macs are new users. This means they are probably refugees from Windows or very, very late adapters. Either way, the Mac is on its way to the mainstream - at the cost of […]

Ok, there’s something in the water in Redmond that causes illusions of adequacy. No doubt it’s the same stuff that Mr. Bush and his six friends have been chugging for the last few years. It’s “pretty awesome” that their piece of Zune player will have a million victims by JUNE!
Years from now when Microsoft becomes […]

Please contact The Podcasting Network and tell them that this layout sucks and the name of our Podcast is MacHelp from Maui.
Mahalo!

Digg alerted me to this insane article from Radioandrecords.com
which is apparently a trade rag for the greed and arrogance industry.
I’ll let you click on the link and read the entire thing, but this last
paragraph says it all.

“Mechanical royalties currently
are out of whack with historical and international rates,” RIAA
executive vp and general counsel Steven Marks said. […]

While rumors of the Apple iPhone spin crazily about the internets, it seems that some few have sold their souls to leak info about yet another Apple mobile phone, one that may or may not ever see the light of day, but seems to have some pretty neat features.
No wonder the rumor mill is so […]

More Apple Mail tricks and a few gift tips for the Mac lovers on your list
For the first time ever we say rude stuff about Microsoft
Support the Makahiki Hou world wide 24-hour cease fire on January First
Keola takes a parting shot
Pekelo plays about going to Hana Maui
Tea by Tetley’s with Hana Donna’s Cookies.

[Obvious] Windows Vista took 10,000 employees five years to create. Preliminary breakdown includes 100 software engineers, 900 marketing experts and 9,000 lawyers

The Hubble Deep Field ImageThis is not about Macs or Hawaii or even gatorfeed from Florida. It is a video about that one picture taken by the Hubble Observatory, the one that grabs me by the heart every time I see it. “This is a picture of how many galaxies are in nothing…”
I found it […]

Pink? Brown wasn’t bad enough they had to make a special pink Zune? This from the company that named an operating system “WINce.”
How to Crap All Over a Product Launch, by Microsoft Corp.
It appears that Microsoft has secretly seeded 100 pink Zunes into the market
so that very lucky, very unsuspecting buyers will get in a […]

Really stupid business model #233049-a:

Assume that all of your customers are criminals
Ask your distributors to raise their prices to pay for these imaginary crimes
Wonder why your sales are way down

Now the movie studios want a ‘piracy cut’ from Apple
Movie studios are demanding that Apple implements a tougher and more restricted DRM system if it […]

Gawd, it’s 6am and I’d better get a blog out. What am I going to write about? Here’s something on DIGG about Apple selling a gazillion MacBooks this month - yeah - no suprise there.
Lessee, “Leo Laport turns 50“, jeeze he’s just a kid! “New security camera can see through clothes” Promising but…
“Man […]