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Microsoft Songsmith

• Token:  Microsoft, huh? So it's pretty easy to use?
• Dad [on Macbook Pro]:  My daughter showed me how just this morning.
• Token:  So you just sing into it and it creates music, like any song will work?
• Dad:  Just like that!
• Token:  That's cool! [interlude] Songsmith, huh? Well, my band has said my songs have been a little stale lately. Maybe this is just what I need...

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merlin:

Vote Yes.

"You’ll see us defend the PC. We’re going to talk about why — look, PCs are better than Macs. That is not something that can be debated. 32 out of every 33 times, somebody buys a PC instead of a Mac. I’m not saying that there are not some things that people like about Macs, apparently there are."

— Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the Mac. This is old by now, but it’s so fantastic.

From Pastor Molly:

Peter Gomes, preaching professor at Harvard Divinity, bests the rarely-bested Stephen Colbert: hilarious!

"And just to hear and from and see these good New Yorkers who are rebuilding not just this are but helping to rebuild America has been very, very inspiring and encouraging."

— Palin takes questions from press corps for first time As Tina Fey said, this is fun for now, and I look forward to never having to hear her name again after November 5th.

• Matt Dellinger:  ...Sarah Palin was also a beauty queen.
• Ariel Levy:  Oh yes. Yes, you know, so he really has surrounded himself with 'Miss Congeniality,' 'Miss Rodeo Queen,' I think. They all learned to play that role.

Good Ole Bill, via Waxy

• BOB GARFIELD:  I want to ask you one more thing: Those Mac ads -- how do you feel about the John Hodgman character?
• BILL GATES:  I can't comment on someone else's ad.
• GARFIELD:  OK ... but he's you.
• GATES:  Yeah, I'm not gonna comment on someone else's ad.
• GARFIELD:  OK, well, Bill Gates, thank you so much for joining us.
• (Silence)
• GARFIELD:  Can I just have a clean goodbye?
• (Silence)
• GARFIELD:  OK, can you just say goodbye? Thank you or goodbye or something like that?
• GATES:  Goodbye

"merlin: 70° outside and I’m fixing metadata on David Bowie songs. Just as it should be."

— I strongly identify with this.

3 out of 10 Republican Presidential candidates… Flat versus round earth didn’t come up. (via YouTube)

Memetastic.