Why it's called a "Big Mac" and not a "Big Win"

Here are the instructions for setting up your computer (Mac or Windows PC) on McDonalds free wi-fi.  Hmmm... Seven steps, or three?  Which is going to get me back to my fries faster?

Thanks go to Daring Fireball via Cult of Mac (so you know it's biased, but so what?) for this link.

Geez, I wish I could present as well as this guy!

And he's a 6th grader!

When are you coming back from your break?!?

What does it say about a product that's in Beta and you already can't live without it after just a week or two?  Well, right now, it's called Siri, Apple's "intelligent" assistant.  The service was down for a few hours yesterday and it's down again today.  I'm finding myself checking every so often to see if it's back (when Siri's down, it tells you that it can't connect to the network).  And it's not just me either.  Do a Twitter search on "Siri down" or "Siri outage" and there are numerous posts about it.  Do a Google search for the same thing and you'll find any number of stories.

So, anyway, what do I think it says about the product?  I think Apple has a big hit on its hands.  I just hope it knows just how big it is and this is just a pre-release glitch and not what we can regularly expect from Siri.

Why I *need* two iPad 2s!

Apple has had an iPad and Siri since 1987!

Yup, really!  Check out this video from 1987.  It's kinda hokey, but weird how close the functionality of the Knowledge Navigator is to an iPad if it had cell service and Siri.  Maybe the iPad 3?

Thanks to Cult of Mac for the link!

Free games!

So I'm going to date myself a little here, but here's your chance to score some free games!  Yes, they are a little bit old, but I just loved playing Zork on my Commodore 64!

Box art from Wikipedia

Just in case

Actually, I guess I should say iPad 2 in case...  After all, if I'm going to spend at least $500 for a device, I'm going to want to protect it, right?

So with what seems like thousands of case options out there, which case is the best?  I've been looking them over, but there are so many!  Which ones do you like?

In a couple of weeks, I'll post my finalists list as I get ready to buy an iPad 2.  But if there's one that any of you particularly like, I'd love to hear about it!