Old news I know, but good summary from 9to5Mac from a few weeks back,

From the “Imitation is flattery” department yet more news from Microsoft HQ out there in Redmond…looks like the company – flushed with success (?) at it’s anti-Apple ads campaign now plans to open up its own chain of computer retail stores. We know how Microsoft rolls, don’t we? Apple makes a desktop UI, Microsoft makes WIndows; Apple ships an iPod, Microsoft does a Zune; Apple opens a shop, and ‘me too’ Microsoft wants one of its own.

If you are bored or masochistic, 10 OS X Pranks That’ll Get You Beat Up–or Fired

This isn’t an OS X prank, but it is my favourite one from the comments:

I put shrimp in the pole of his chair, took a few days but he had to get a new chair.

From Cult of Mac, oodlesand more oodles of uses for old Apple logos. iWant!!

Is Dvorak drinking the kool-aid?

“If I was going to buy a new laptop this minute, a MacBook Pro is probably what I’d get,” are words almost no tech watcher of the past 20 years would ever figure to come from Dvorak, the smart, engaging veteran columnist who has taken over the years a nearly perverse glee in stirring up the bee hive of Apple loyalists in tech journalism.

In yet more goodness from Cult of Mac, the little iPod that could.

From TheAppleBlog, The Pursuit of Perfection: Hidden Gems in Apple Design

Go read their fav.