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Doubtful — anybody who cares about what Jerry Seinfeld thinks already uses a Mac.

One slogan that Microsoft shouldn’t use: “Vista – Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

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This has the potential to be very cool.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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There you go — everything good is bad for you.

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Well, yeah — not being around primitive farm machinery and animals that weighed a lot and didn’t really care what they stepped on will do that for you.

Those who mourn the “dark Satanic mills” forget that country people flocked there in preference to working in the fields.

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Apparently not. Think you’ve had a bad tech support experience? Hah. Read this, and weep.

My wife and I had Cingular mobile phone service — the service was fine, but God help you if you had to have a change or make a correction to a bill. We eventually gave up and switched to AT&T (old style), and were happy as clams — until Cingular bought AT&T, whereupon all of the old problems re-arose.

Don’t be fooled by the name — I say it’s Cingular, and I say to hell with it. (And, ironically enough, that’s where you’ll be if you call their tech support. See, it’s all this big circle….)

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This sounds like an excellent idea.

A useful map.

Turns out the regions Georgia is so keep to keep aren’t even inhabited by Georgians.

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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The biter bit.

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And the glass ceiling just dropped another ten meters.

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For example, white people find it particularly hilarious to take slang and enunciate every word perfectly.

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Yeah, that’s the ticket.

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Possibly the dorkiest tie in existence.

Of course, it would only be worn by people whom you would expect to be wearing the dorkiest ties in existence, so the confluence is almost poetic in its elegance.

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Boy, those South Africans are sure lucky they’re no longer under the boot of that oppressive white regime.

Thank God for the U.N. and the international community, or who knows what sort of hell they’d be living in now.

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So far, reaction in the US to Russia’s invasion of Georgia has been all Vladimir Putin could have wished. Exhausted in every way by its experience in Iraq (a failure not much mitigated by recent progress there), its authority and sense of purpose quite depleted, the US looked slower and less decisive than Europe in its initial response, and that is saying something.

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I love maps like these.

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Oddly enough, that makes perfect sense.

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Gee, I wonder why?

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Although why anyone ought to give a shit what “animal rights campaigners” think is not explained.

Miss Paltrow, 35, who is married to the Coldplay singer and vegetarian Chris Martin has won praise for her impeccable green credentials and is a fan of holistic practices and yoga.

Oh, I see; it’s treason they’re bitching about. Sorry, guys; money talks.

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Let’s see — which drugs are politicians more likely to need?

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The United States government has poured large quantities of money into higher education. As a result prices have risen. Increases in demand often cause prices to rise. Now the morons in the US Congress are going to try to pressure colleges to ignore the extra market demand created by the government.

What follows? Why, rationing, of course. There will be more people wanting places than places wanting people. Which means that somebody, somebody, is going to be choosing who goes to college (and qualifies to join the ruling class) and who doesn’t. And on what basis will that choice be made? Well, perhaps you can find a clue in looking over the Harvard or Yale or Princeton application materials concerning what sort of students they like to see.

Can you say “politically correct”? Can you say “fashionable minority”? Can you say “art history major rather than engineer”? I’m sure you can.

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Donald Duck in a toga? Say it ain’t so.

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Government doesn’t solve problems; government creates problems, and then takes your money to “solve” them.

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This is God telling you not to go kayaking.

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We have the technology.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

The Chinese Olympic team flagbearer Yao Ming, the enormously tall Houston Rockets center who memorably led the Chinese in during the Opening Ceremonies next to the tiny hero boy who rescued two classmates buried in the recent earthquake, is the product of a more or less arranged marriage between the centers on the Chinese national men’s and women’s basketball teams.

The future, before our very eyes. Unless Islam takes over, of course.

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These self appointed intellectuals, whom Ayn Rand had labeled as Witch Doctors, claim the position of authority in a division of labor economy through the claim of being in possession of superior knowledge. Such so called superior knowledge must by necessity contradict the knowledge gained by direct perception of objective (commonly perceived) reality.

And if this wasn’t bad enough there are now false authorities who claim to represent something other than a human population, such as the Gaianist witch doctor Al Gore.

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Apparently, when Google says “Don’t be evil” they actually mean “Don’t be Republican.”

Not news, really, but a useful reminder.

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You would think that they were “activists”.

A parliamentary vote has led to more than 20 regional languages now being officially recognised by France’s constitution for the first time in history, horrifying those who see France’s single tongue as its unifying force.

Oh, no. The forces of centralization and uniformity have suffered a perhaps fatal blow.

The revolution has been brought about by lobbying from an unlikely alliance of minority groups, including Corsican nationalists, Breton druids, Germanic-leaning Alsatians, and even romantic poets from the southern Languedoc region.

What, riff-raff can lobby? Whoda thunkit.

Despite furious opposition from L’Académie, Article 75 of the revised constitution now states that all the languages “are part of France’s heritage”. As a result, French tax payers also face a multi-million Euro bill to make everything from road signs to menus into “regionally acceptable” dual-translation form.

No good deed goes unpunished. Nowhere is it explained, of course, why, just because a language is recognized as part of the national heritage, every conceivable nook and cranny of the government bureaucracy has to accommodate it. Why, you’d think they were becoming Americans. Or perhaps that Americans were becoming Europeans. I’m becoming confused….

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So much for photographic evidence.

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Gee — I wonder why?

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Nils Olav, a king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo that doubles as the honorary colonel of the King’s Guards of Norway, was knighted in a ceremony involving 130 guardsmen.

Sounds like a Monty Python skit, doesn’t it?

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And rightly so.

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“Capitalism” being here defined, of course, as “money possessed by somebody other than a Washington Post reporter”.

But with the Olympics, Beijing is reveling in the most lavish display of capitalism, commercialism and celebrity the Communist Party has ever seen.

Anyone who could write a sentence like that with a straight face has serious intellectual defects.

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Shucks, I missed it.

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Actually, it’s their wallets that need protection.

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People can surprise you. Even New Yorkers.

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They were dressed in costumes associated with the country’s ethnic minorities, including those from troubled areas such as Tibet and the muslim province of Xinjiang. Such displays of “national unity” are a compulsory part of any major state occasion.

But the children were all from the Han Chinese majority, which makes up more than 90 per cent of the population and is culturally and politically dominant, according to an official with the cultural troupe from which they were selected.

I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Why does it always astound people when a Communist dictatorship acts like a Communist dictatorship? You’d think that Tienamen Square never happened.

Peggy Noonan reflects on the impact of mobility on American politics.

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We have the technology.

Mickey Kaus does an exercise in logic.

Yaacov Ben Moshe is brilliant again.

Almost everything you need to know about life you can learn from Marty Feldman.

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The agreement highlights how Russia’s invasion of Georgia has prompted a swift reappraisal of the region’s security and alliances.

No shit. I imagine the Poles are getting pretty nervous right about now. They remember that they had the Russian boot on their necks for a couple of centuries — and 1989 wasn’t all that long ago.