@viditbhargava: READ. THE. FUCKING. ARTICLE.

"Gene Munster analyst Piper Jaffray" should be "Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster"

I am the only one who's sick of shows about upper-middle-class white people living their privileged lives? Now we have a show about upper-middle-class UNDEAD white people living their privileged ETERNAL lives?! Gimme a goddamn break.

@metalhawj: Word of advice: never set foot outside of the US and say that in public.

In a similar vein to Nothing So Strange, there was a movie (whose title escaped me at the moment!) which was a mocumentary about the assassination of George W. Bush. (It's not as happy an ending as you might expect).

@Spikette: That is a fine point, though I don't think a story has to necessarily explore the reprecussions of an alternate outcome in order to qualify as an alternate history story. That sounds like Marvel's "What If..." series from the 80's. I'll agree that this is the case with the most interesting ones, but I…

But then sometimes you get "The End of Time"

@madara: Yes. There have been Indian and Japanese Spider-Men. And look how THEY turned out!

@quantumsheep: "Bowties are cool."

To everyone talking about Apple blocking other ads: It's not happening. Jobs clearly said that they're only offering what they think is the best Ad platfor for their developers and that they are NOT blocking people from using whatever ad services they want. The only think they've blocked is unauthorized (by the end…

"Hey, you know that trailer we made so that people could watch it and get all excited to see our movie?"

If iTunes.com and/or an iTunes subscription service are announced, it'll be in September, when iPod-related announcements are made. Not WWDC. iTunes.com has very little impact on Devs.

@tipTI: If they just made an actual damn TV, they could stick all the magical shit Steve was talking about inside it, so people don't have to buy it all separately. How come I can come up with a solution in my head WHILE HE'S STILL EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM and he can't do it in the 3 years since the Apple TV was…

I don't think cellphone use is any more distracting than having a conversation with a passenger, if you're using a headset.

@OCEntertainment: I had a friend with the same thing. I got her an Origami kit for Christmas.

Man, am I ever sick of hearing about Prime's damn lips. Here's what I'm thinking: Other transformers have lips and always have (IE: Megatron). Isn't it possible that the plate-mouthed like Prime and Shockwave have lips UNDER said plate?