Apple’s apparently going to re-release their 1984 ad for Macintosh.

‘Cept it’s different. Yep, the stacked woman in sweet hip huggers is wearing an iPod. You can compare it with the original ad here (And use a little Hawkeye bandwidth).

It’s well done. I had watched the ad twice before I had to pause and make sure that I’d seen what I’d though I saw. But isn’t it a little bit of NewSpeak to go back and airbrush in on history?

I wanna buy me a baseball team.

Bud Selig is selling the Brewers. Now, if we can only get him to quit as commissioner …

Internet voting is a “high-tech poll tax.” “If someone can vote in the warmth of their living room, but a grandmother has to go down four flights of stairs and into the cold,” he said, “that’s not an even playing field.”

Fresh Bilge is put out by someone who’s living one of my fantasies – no house, only a boat.

I’m not completely sure that “sailing away” would really appeal to me for longer than a couple of weeks, but it’s kind of refreshing to know that there are people who are actually doing it.

From 1996 – “I think we can reduce the size of Washington,” Kerry said Jan. 6, 1996. “Get rid of the Energy Department. Get rid of the Agriculture Department, or at least render it three-quarters the size it is today; there are more agriculture bureaucrats than there are farmers in this country.” Courage. Must have helped him while he was serving in Vietnam.

Showing that Brandi Chastain may have been on to something, the head of FIFA said “the women’s game should try to attract fashion and cosmetics companies as sponsors by featuring “more feminine uniforms.”“:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108723,00.html Riiight.

BTW- Fox has a pretty low opinion of its audience (Which I think is pretty endemic across news sources, and the source of much percieved media bias.) They explain that in England where soccer is known as football, since obviously, someone reading an article about soccer wouldn’t know that.