The worst thing in 1954 was a bikini

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I was at the MAUL today and outside the Apple store there was a line of people with their little welcome cards or something waiting to buy a new iPod. The usual tiresome egotistical Apple Store employee was there giving posters and stuff to people waiting in line to BUY SOMETHING.

I wish I'd come up with the Apple Cult. It's great to see people sacrificing their time and energy to give someone else money.

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[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

Tim O'Reilly (http://tim.oreilly.com/) and ziggy (http://use.perl.org/~ziggy/) had an interesting discussion (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017) on software communities. They observe that the Apple cult is always in a reactive stance -- sharing secret tips and tricks and workarounds, and trying to keep up with the pronouncements of the mother ship. In contrast to open source software communities, which, for all their faults, have a more creative mindset.

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Yes, like the very creative guy at OSCON last year that lambasted a bunch of us for having apple laptops, concluding with "Thank you for helping destroy the world!". :-)

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

What an oddball. Is having a Toshiba laptop and paying the MS tax somehow better?

Wait for the skin to split open revealing an alien still pissed about what Jeff Goldblum did in ID4.