Again proving my point that Americans are utilitarian (we simply don’t care), and the rest of the world might still be concerned about aesthetics. (An U.S. exception might be Hollywood.)

He’s still thin, but he looks good in a tux.

Disney better not screw the pooch on this one.

I want to work for Panic when I grow up.

I haven’t even seen the first one.

John Gruber:

I’ll go so far as to predict that by the time Monday April 5 rolls around, it’ll already be an established meme that non-iPad-optimized iPhone apps are to the iPad what Classic apps were to Mac OS X — something you’ll make do with “for now” but can’t wait to abandon for the real thing.

I’m not saying it’s a mistake that Apple is allowing the iPad to run iPhone apps. I’m just saying that the iPad is not a big iPhone.

Bingo. Current iPhone apps running on the iPad will be “good enough” until developers can write iPad native apps.

Daniel Eran Dilger gives us an insightful look into Microsoft’s piecemeal mobile strategy.

It’s not looking good.

As if there was any doubt, Valve (the maker of some of my favorite games)has confirmed that they are bringing their Steam game delivery system and their Source game engine to the Mac.

Games are coming to the Mac in a very big way.

Whatever you’re currently using as a stand for your iPhone simply doesn’t have as much character as this stand.

Tech: Hot & Cool is a video series from Daniel Eran Dilger and Khara Cara.

In their first episode they review the WiEx Zboost, an appliance that boosts cell signals in your house.

Leo Laporte is far kinder to this lady than I could ever be. Tight ass…

“…if traditional media companies don’t burn their own boats, somebody else will.”

Bingo. If the old media companies will not move to the web now, then more and more websites like TPM, Politico, and The Atlantic will spring up to take their place; they’ve already got a great head-start.

That said, I think Marc Andreessen, the “expert” they quote in the article, is downplaying the importance of the iPad in getting this ball rolling.

They’re gearing up for a big launch.

This is a surprisingly insightful article from Cracked.com. It points out all the reasons I don’t watch the Academy Awards.

We’ll see who wins tonight, a safe bet is on the films that don’t deserve to win.

Horse shit. I understand that desktops do not play as great a role as they used to in the way we work, but we’ve heard this drum thump before. I do think the notion of a “desktop” or “PC” is on it’s way out. The iPad has the potential to prove that, but it’s essentially a PC in a different form-factor. I sincerely believe we will always have a “hub”(like the current PC) device we use for heavy work, and a smartphone-like device for convenience.

via Mashable.

If Apple could fuck up it’s public image quickly, this week has been a hell of a start.

Represent a movie in four pixels or less. Brilliant.

Jesus. How did we survive such crude times?

Pre-orders start March 12th.

Proving once again that you can make art out of anything.

John Gruber gives his take on the Apple VS. HTC lawsuit.

What worries me is that idea that Apple, or even just Steve Jobs, believes that phones like the Nexus One have no right to exist, period, and that patent litigation to keep them off the market is in the company’s interests. I say it’s worrisome not because I think it’s evil, or foolish, or unreasonable, but because it is unwise, shortsighted, and unnecessary.

This sounds like a road we don’t want to go down.

I can’t wait to play Counter Strike Source on my MacBook Pro.

Most Curious Indeed.

Gorgeous two-minute CGI movie reminiscing some of Apple’s milestone products.

Daniel Eran Dilger:

By pulling HTC into a legitimate legal skirmish over patent infringement, the wheels come off both sides of the cart, sending other Android makers into creative mode (where they have to envision a smartphone that doesn’t look exactly like the iPhone) and sending WP7 into turmoil (because Microsoft has bet all of its marbles on a plan that sacrifices today’s WiMo to resurrect it as WP7 in a make-or-break effort that is modeled to look as close to the iPhone as possible).

Bingo. I’ve been thinking about this, and I’m starting to come around to the idea that this is a defensive move by Apple, and not an offensive one as it appears at first glance. Apple chose to strike first, and chose to hit the hardware manufacturer producing mobiles that look very similar to the iPhone.