A peice on the 37 Signals Blog explains very well why some of us cheer for Apple.

Still, financial results of the likes Apple delivered yesterday serve as an affirmation of all that energy spent telling their story. Believing in the underdog. Like your favorite home team who couldn’t get into premier league while growing up just won the Superbowl, the Stanley Cup, and the World Series all together for the 10th time in a row — and you were the only one to believe in them. It’s an immensely satisfying feeling.

It can be easy to forget that tech reporters are, sometimes, really good writers. Mat Honan:

There is a hole in my heart dug deep by advertising and envy and a desire to see a thing that is new and different and beautiful. A place within me that is empty, and that I want to fill it up.

(via Daring Fireball)

Yet another song that I love because it’s featured in a Wes Anderson film, but would have never heard otherwise.

Well, Your Honor. We’ve plenty of hearsay and conjecture. Those are kinds of evidence.

Few things in the world have been more awesome than Lionel Hutz as played by Phil Hartman.

Over at Grantland, Charles Pierce puts something in perspective:

He wasn’t dragooned into this. Nobody drafted him. He walked into this role with his eyes open. Before he ever took a snap in the NFL, he appeared in an anti-choice television ad with his mother that was sponsored by Focus on the Family, an influential anti-choice, anti-gay-rights organization founded by the Rev. James Dobson. He knew what he was doing.

And that’s just it - you can’t make a television ad for bigots and then act surprised when people start to dislike you.

And another thing to consider, that I’ve never heard brought up. How often did Steve Young (hall-of-famer, tended to score more than 15 points per game) talk about his religion? Because, you know where he got the name Young, right? You know he’s from Salt Lake City, right? Yeah, that’s right, he shares his name with the University he attended because he’s a direct descendant of Brigham Young, but I don’t think I ever saw him do a commercial expounding those beliefs did he? No, he was just an great football player. Tebow could learn a lot from Steve Young.

Submitted as one of the greatest things ever…

Sad to see him retire.

When I started seeing all those images of cops beating up #ows demonstrators, this came to mind: