You may be able to get higher quality at YouTube’s site, or on the link I posted earlier to Creativity Online. This is pretty cool and a clever rundown of all the features in Leopard.

Interview with the filmmaker here. The woman in the movie is an actress, not the artist behind the song, which is Again & Again by The Bird and The Bee. Cool Song.

I’ve been waiting for an ultraportable from you for over a year. I’ve been holding my breath (figuratively) for days before your Keynotes, hoping I’ll be able to trade you my money for a new laptop. All I want is a small laptop, like my 12 inch Powerbook (although preferably it would be smaller).

Steve…this isn’t it. Not even close. There are three dimensions of size. You made the MacBook Air thinner and lighter, but the damned thing has exactly the same foot print as the 13 inch Macbook. In fact, it is a more expensive, fewer USB ports, no Firewire, non-replaceable battery, no optical drive, slower chip, same foot print as the 13 inch Macbook.

This does not replace my nicely compact 12 inch Powerbook. Not by a long shot.

I haven’t read what other people are saying about it Steve, but unless something magic happens in the next two weeks and suddenly I can’t lift 5 pounds, but can still lift 3, I don’t think the Macbook Air will be on my shopping list.

That’s the video I found on YouTube for that song. It’s a pretty good one, will have to check out her other stuff. Her stuff is on iTunes DRM Free:

Hilarious. Thanks, sis.

That’s 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul rocking the iPhone. Wouldn’t have expected that combo in a million years.

Too damn funny!

Just a quick observation: Lost on iTunes isn’t widescreen. Heroes on iTunes is. Apple is making choices easy on the studios, but I wish the content was uniformly 16×9. It doesn’t matter on my computer, or on the iPod, but I don’t want to miss what’s happening on the edges. I know Lost, in particular, has put easter eggs and extra hints in the extra real estate.

Apparently, Apple’s market cap has surpassed Dell’s recently. The occasion has reminded a few folks about some choice Michael Dell comments. First, in 1997 he claimed that Apple should close up shop. One wonders where his firm would’ve gotten their design cues from, but whatever. In the comments over at MacSlash, we find an even a better set of quotes in this BusinessWeek article:

Q: What is the future of Apple Computer?
A: Silicon Graphics.

Q: That bad?
A: Maybe it’s a little bit different. But if you look at proprietary computer companies, whether it’s Digital or Silicon Graphics (SGI ) or Apple (AAPL ), I think the fates are all relatively similar. We know how the movie ends. It’s just a question of what happens in the middle. Apple has a very little customer base. If you look at the economics, it has been extremely hard for Apple to get a return on its R&D with a shrinking volume base. It’s not to say that Apple’s products aren’t innovative or cool, but the economic factors here are so overwhelming, it’s very hard for them to swim against that tide.

Q: If you were running Apple, is there anything you could do to change that?
A: I would never take that job.

Prescient, that guy.