>>In case you haven't been following the product announcements at Macworld this week, the Onion News Network has it for you ---
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>>http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
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>That is truly wonderful !! I find myself incapable of even considering an Apple product as there is just this gut feeling that to do so it to support Scientology.

Oh, I love Apple. Here we have a Mac, three iPhones, and three iPods. They really are design geniuses IMO. But they are also ripe for spoofing in some ways, several of which the video nails -- the high pricing, for example. Or the "green" posturing which is of dubious value to the user -- energy saving screen which goes black after 4 seconds, "Hummingbird battery" which doesn't have to be charged for a full 20 minutes. Brilliant satire IMO.

In real news, I saw that Apple stock went up $4 the other day based on a statement from Steve Jobs that his emaciated look is not due to a recurrence of cancer but to an unspecified hormonal disorder. Love them or not, it's hard to think of another institution which would be so devastated by the loss of its leader.

Change of subject -- I bet you are bordering on apoplexy over Panetta for CIA head, am I right? Sounds like that nomination may be in trouble even among Democrats.