News: New Get a Mac Ads Jab Windows 7 (The Mac Observer) Apple’s latest Get a Mac ads rolled out on October 22, the same day that Windows 7 launched, and by no small coincidence the take jabs at Microsoft’s latest OS. The three new commercials feature John Hodgmann and Justin Long in their familiar roles as PC and Mac. News: Chrome for Mac Gets QuickTime Support (The Mac Observer) The latest pre-release version of Google’s Chrome Web browser for the Macintosh is a little more functional
I was surfing working on my computer early one evening when the doorbell rang. The dog went nuts, of course, so I had to put down my laptop and find out who was here. It was three Mormon missionary boys, fresh-faced and eager to talk. In an intriguing coincidence, I had been revisiting some writings by my recently deceased friend, Rance. He was a gay man raised in the Mormon church, and he was the first to make me aware of the depth of the pain caused the LGBT community by his church and
Iran’s Oil Exports So Far Spared by Protests It may have been no coincidence that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran used a petrochemical facility as the backdrop for his first major speech since the elections to blast President Obama and strike a note of defiance after Iran’s controversial election results. Oil is Iran’s mainstay and the source of 70 percent of the government’s revenue. High prices have enabled the government’s assertive foreign policy in recent years. But at a ti