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NO WAY! This thing is actually a real product?
I don’t believe it.

Via Engadget:

Filed under: Peripherals

The day you’ve been waiting so very, very, very long for has finally arrived: Optimus Maximus keyboards have begun shipping out to their new homes. In addition to the pricey, OLED-studded ‘boards, the Optimus Configurator software utility is also available, allowing you to customize your new purchase to your heart’s content. In other news, Art Lebedev says that he’s planning a new project which will make you salivate uncontrollably for five years straight, and end with you taking out a second mortgage on your home to purchase it. Huzzah!

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I think I have every one of these obsolete skills…

Well almost every skill. I’ve never churned butter or caulked my wagon to ford a river, at least. And I’ve never learned how to unlace my corset.

John Gruber at Daring Fireball couldn’t have been more in tune with my perspective on the MacBook Air.

Via Daring Fireball:

The Air’s missing optical drive and FireWire/Ethernet ports are like the original iMac’s missing floppy drive.

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Wil Shipley has written about it too (although with a title not for the easily offended), and he agreed with my comment that I was baffled by the “it’s too expensive, unlike the 12 inch PowerBook” claim. The much missed 12 inch PowerBook was the same price, not less than, the MacBook Air.

The MacBook Air is a shift in thinking, from disks to online living. Physical disk media is dead—long live online access to media.

Like I’ve said, the Internet is my filing cabinet–why bother buying discs anymore?

Sign me up–it would be really great to consolidate and simplify my phone services:

Google Grand Central.

I reserved a number (or filled out the form, anyway).

This one comes from Slashdot:

Disney Takes Another Stab at the House of the Future
Disney has announced that they are going to take another stab at showing us the “House of the Future”. The 5000-square-foot house will appear normal from the outside but will house gadgets like lights and thermostats that automatically adjust when someone enters the room and countertops that can identify food placed on it and suggest recipes.

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I’d love to see it if I can get down to Orlando, but 5,000 square feet? That’s a lot of house.

(UPDATE: Crap. It’s in Disneyland, not Disney World. Anaheim is much more difficult to get to from here than Orlando.)

So I heard the opening credit song on Chuck and the guys told me it was Cake. At the iTunes store I bought Fashion Nugget. So now I’m thinking about buying another album. Should it be Comfort Eagle?

This is awesome! I won one of the speaker roles at REAL World 2008 in Austin next month. REALbasic is an amazing development tool, and I hope to do it justice with my talk.