Peter Parker and Mary Jane are calling it quits. Actually this wasn’t today’s news, but I didn’t get to read it yesterday. In a move specifically designed to shake up the comic book world.

I love Spider-Man dearly, but I think that the reactions to this have been overblown. Sure, I like a movie to stick with continuity to some extent, but there’s a reason movies can stick to continuity and new stories have to change continuity.

All in all, I think people are making a big deal out of nothing.

Next on our plate we have the MacBook air! The latest in thin Notebooks, the Apple MacBook Air sacrifices things like an optical drive, firewire/ethernet ports for a sleek looking design.

It incorporates the features that made the iPhone popular on the MacBook, just not in the same way. No touch-screen, like everyone was hoping.

Some MacFanatics tried to justify the price-drop that day as a result of the rest of the market dropping, but it followed, (and continues to,) the tradition of other MacWorld Keynotes. Everyone jumps ship for a bit.

Steve Jobs called Robbie of Microsoft a drunk, all for supporting his product. Good way to make good press. Good thing Microsoft doesn’t attack you guys the way you attack them. You’d be all up in arms about how they were trying to stifle the ‘little guy’. I guess when you’re the top dog you have to get used to people throwing punches at you constantly.

This basically mirrors exactly what I had to say about the MacBook Air when I heard about it: It’s pretty much a useless piece of equipment that looks pretty. Basically, Apple is trying to go the way of Cell Phones: if it looks good, it’ll sell. It’s a fashion statement that is meant to make you look cool and superior to everyone else.

Speaking of the holier-than-thou attitude… Well, I loled at it. It’s pretty much the truth. I deal with Mac users semi-regularly. One of them is pretty modest about it, and doesn’t try to tell me Windows sucks. The others, though…

Well, lets just say that I can’t get through a single conversation with them without hearing how great something is on a Mac and how crap it would be on Windows.

Also, Steve Jobs, apparently, snubbed someone asking for a picture. Well, I guess when you have a lot of money, you can afford to be a jerk. (Oh, wait, Hi there Mr. Gates!)

This fuckin’ thing caught my eye immediately. My first thought? Terminator meets Gumby. (Don’t ask me why.) All I can say is that I’d love to take that thing out for a spin… And I know just which of my friends I would use it on. >=D

Google announced some sexy ideas in the way the Internet is used to garner information. Gone will be the days of “I wiki’d it” in Internet dog-fights. Instead you’ll be able to “knol” it to get the information you want.

I personally like Wikipedia, but I also think that the anonymity through which posting is capable leads to spamming more often than not; it also makes any article available subject to being ‘brushed off’ because anybody could edit it. I know a guy who used to run around spamming every Wikipedia article he could with disinformation because he thought it was “funny”.

Hopefully Knol will manage to fix that.

Dreamhost fucked their clients over, and unlike a night out with an extremely limber girl, it doesn’t seem to be well received. Why? Because $7.5 million dollars worth of over-billing is kinda hard to swallow for most people.

I know I’d be pissed off. But that’s just me.

Amazon.com did something customer friendly recently by spending between €30,000 and €31,000 a month to ship free stuff to France.

I think this is a pretty good trend, but I don’t think it’ll last. If the French Government decides to, they can raise this penalty every month to make the book selling giant go, “Oh, shit. No more free shipping to you, France!”

I’m sorry if you live in France.

Oh, more Apple stuff. The MacBook Air was meant to make environmentalists get off of Steve Jobs’s back. It didn’t seem to do too much, though it does seem to be a step in the right direction.

The letter he wrote last year about this entire situation with Greanpeace didn’t really seem like a good idea to me. Sure, he says he’s been doing a lot, but he didn’t know about it. Not to mention he was saying it in comparison to other’s in the business, (Dell was mentioned a lot.)

I can sum it up in a few words:

“Hey, we’re not as bad as those guys over there, stop picking on me!”

Stop touting yourself (undeservedly) as the ‘biggest name in innovation’ and people will stop looking to you for innovation and change.

Duh.

This watch might have made my pants shrink a little bit. Maybe.

It’s pretty cool, and I’d be seen sporting one, (if it comes in black.) It seems like a genuinely interesting watch that’s easy to use and understand. Hats off to it.

I’ll probably do some political stuff later. Thanks for reading!

This is apparently trying to replace GIMP on Linux.

At $38USD the application seems cheap when compared to Photoshop. It’s also pretty nice and usable, too, from what I’ve been able to uncover. It is a multi-platform art-tool that will hopefully pop Photoshop off it’s bunk a bit.

The detractants are that it isn’t open source and that people who run The GIMP aren’t used to paying for software; they also aren’t used to not being able to muck about inside the program they’re using.

This could gain a foothold on PC and Mac’s, though. Mac specificially, because the cost of a Mac is already outrageously high.