Once again, The iPhone Savior finds the freaks - our people. Here’s to the crazy ones…..

at least I got ZERO saliva on my MacBook when I kissed it.

Ubergizmo brings us the Haunted iPhone:

Interestingly enough, somebody attempted to sell her iPhone on eBay not because she grew sick and tired of this multi-touch wonder, but mainly because it is haunted. Yes, you read that right. The going price was a ridiculous $8,180,000.50 before it was pulled out.

A touching love story:

I love my laptop.

I don’t think of my iBook as a gadget - it’s a body part. I never leave home without it. It even sleeps beside me.

And it’s always been so loyal to me - even when it hears me talk about how much I want to buy a new MacBook. It’s never held a grudge - even when I had to leave it behind when I was lent a sexy black MacBook when I went to Macworld last year.

Sure its battery dies all the time now and my YM keeps crashing but I still love it.

And so I spent a perfectly good Saturday afternoon scrubbing it clean, scrubbing the stains away.

It doesn’t look as good as new, it’s still not as white as before but it still looks pretty damn good to me.

Steve on Circles:

From the excellent MacUser blog:

First time MacBook Pro owner aberard just can’t get that darned MBP to open! He goes to the Apple Support forum for much needed assistance.

“I can’t open my new MacBook Pro. Is there a latch? I’m afraid of wrecking something by pulling or pushing,” he queries.

Granted, using a PC all these years has probably done substantial damage to his brain, this still seems a little over the top. Nevertheless, the friendly Mac community tries to help him out. To no avail. Seems there is a mysterious “grey strip” across the body of the laptop that is somehow keeping him from opening the precious piece of hardware.

Read the as-of-now unresolved thread for a good laugh, and to lower your hope for humanity just a tad bit more.

Microsoft’s Real Problem: Steve Jobs

Is the return of Steve Jobs the only thing that has shifted the competitive landscape in favor of Apple? No. If Steve Jobs were Microsoft’s only problem, the company would be fine. Steve Jobs is actually less important to the second coming of Apple’s Mac business than the decline of the Windows hegemony.

Actually, I think this is Microsoft’s real problem:

From Cult of Mac:

That just makes me want to say Ken Leeee!

From the Heart of Life in Oklahoma:

Scene: Cason and me reading a child’s story bible with Lift-the flap thingys. We are reading the story of Baby Jesus. I know. Seriously give me the Mom of the Year Award THIS MINUTE.

Me: (pointing to the cartoon picture of Baby Jesus) Cason, look do you know who that is?
Cason: Oh yeah! Wall-e!

Now maybe a good time to point out that while Steve Jobs was a Pixar founder, he is not in fact our Savior.

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From Interesting Facts:

Fact 16. The largest apple pie ever baked was forty by twenty three feet.

The Joy of Adventure’s Yummy Kool-Aid:

A FedEx delivery truck showed up yesterday morning upon our arrival in the St. Louis area with my new MacBook Pro. So far, I’m in technolust. It’s a beautiful machine and feels so sweet and sexy. I’m still adjusting to thinking a bit differently about my computing environment, but I feel that that things will soon become intuitive to me.

RIM needs to remember they are CANADIAN for Pete’s sake:

But the third problem is the one that worries me the most. Apple is almost uniquely good at marketing. Its communication power is a combination of longtime company history, Steve Jobs’ personality, and a culture that values perfection in marcom. Any tech company that makes its goal to match Apple’s flash is going to look bad by comparison.

If anyone from RIM is reading this, please listen to me closely. I beg of you, don’t be chumps. You’re Canadian, for God’s sake. You don’t do sexy. You do humble and inoffensive.

From Life is Such Sweet Insanity:

Alright, after my Apple rant from earlier today, I have to come clean. Since I got all my frustrations with MobileMe/.Mac and the iPhone 2.0 release I’ve been using my MacBook Pro all afternoon and evening. I love my Macs and I think that’s why I am feeling a tad bit passionate about the snags that occurred at the end of last week and last weekend.

I love my Ubuntu Linux machine. And yes, I still love my Macs.

All is right with the world.

Leander Kahney gets denied by a guy wearing a Microsoft shirt:

The very last iPhone 3G at the Stonestown store in south San Francisco was just sold to a guy in a Microsoft shirt!

I’m currently at the Apple store in the Stonestown mall, posting from an in-store computer.

I came down to pick up an iPhone 3G, but the last phone was just sold to this guy in a Microsoft shirt.

Cult of Mac

Software engineer Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Microsoft’s Windows 95, picked up a Mac for the first time two years ago.

He was so impressed, he says he’ll never touch a PC again.

Cult of Mac has an interview. Please go read it.

The Jobsian pod?