Okay, I didn’t vote for him, but its way cool that President-Elect Obama uses a Mac (courtesy of 9 to 5 Mac)

Steve Jobs responds to a student writing about the glossy screen MacBooks (and for the record, yes, I think they should offer them in matte):

This is useful for the future: What’s in a Word? … and Otherwise Deconstructing an Apple Announcement

Why Leopard is better than Vista at superterran:

I wanted to be fair, so I posted an old screenshot of my old Desktop running Vista. You know, because you don’t have to use a shitty looking Desktop for Windows Vista to lose this fight. Let’s go right down the list. Windows Sidebar is gay, it’s buggy and slow, it’s a half-hearted rip-off of the much better Dashboard (In all respects, I like how Dashboard has it’s own layer of my desktop, I like how installing a dashboard widget is far easier than installing a Gadget on Vista, I like the default widgets 10x better, and the fact that a Dashboard Widget isn’t constrained by such a small size makes them far more useful. The sidebar’s for show, The Dashboard is useful for work. I use The Dashboard for all sorts of things.

Also, Glass is gay. I know, look at Windows Explorer, it’s pretty. Now, look at the IM Window in the screenshot. It wasn’t pretty in XP, it’s downright ugly in Vista. As it turns out, Glass is really only a window border decorator. If you want your app to look good with glass, you’ve got to spend a week getting the form to paint the glass, then you’ve got to spend even more time making the app useful because Glass isn’t exactly designed to be useful as far as developing applications that fully support it go. Even Microsoft reccommends using Glass sparingly. Want more beef? Maximize that window, and the toolbar becomes a doofy mix of white and black designed to look like what glass would look life if both light shined through it, but the glass was totally opaque. Steve Jobs is right, Microsoft has terrible taste, and Vista’s UI niceties really drive the point home.

Random Steve pic. Dark and moody. I love it.

At the Amazon End User blogs, Agen Schmitz gives a very nice summary of recent Apple news. Go and check it out.

HinesSight tells us why he loves his Mac more than his PC (via Cult of Mac):

A few weeks ago I dived back into the Macintosh world, after a long dry spell wandering in the Windows wilderness. I started with Apple back in the way old II+ days, but got tired of not being in the computer mainstream.

My new MacBook makes me wonder, “Why did I stick with PCs for so long?” I just made a You Tube video that implies an answer: “Because I didn’t know what I was missing, fool that I was.”

Also via Cult of Mac is this interesting photo: