A Few More of my Favourite Things.

Like Star Wars-themed Transformers...


...Mystery Science Theater shout-outs in The Simpsons...


...or an ocean of meat, cheese and barbeque sauce colliding in the blessed form of Barbeque Meat-Lovers Stuffed Crust goodness, I love it when my varied interests intersect.


Sure, the sum may not always be greater than the individual parts, See: Alien vs Predator, but like pizza and sex (as the saying goes), when it's good, it's really good, and when when it's bad, it's still pretty good.

And now I've come across this clip from an episode of Mystery Science Theater I've not seen before, and I have another satisfying convergence for my list: MST and Macs!



Hehehe. I always knew there was a reason Tom Servo was my favourite. Amiga?! Bah!

UPDATE
Of course! How did I forget the top-shelf combo of BATMAN AND NINJAS from Batman Begins?! Gold.

Here it comes...

WWDC kicks off in four hours, and with it cometh iPhone 2, baby! And I just lost my old mobile last night! Well, misplaced most likely, but a little positive thinking never hurt anyone! Lost will do as I drift off to sleep tonight...

UPDATE: I apologise for saying "baby" up there in the original post. I don't normally talk that way. But that's iPhone fever for you, baby!

UPDATE 2: Avast! Thar she blows!


iPhone 3G! A phone so cool it skipped an entire generation and went straight to 3! And it's coming to Australia! All my childhood dreams of the future have been fulfilled. Well, not all fulfilled; I'm still waiting on personal jetpacks. And flying cars. And teleporting. But it's a big step forward nonetheless. What an incredible device.

If you haven't watched the Stevenote, it's worth checking out; if only to see what the many developers have done with the Software Developers Kit. The music app at 40:11, the Google Maps-style medical app at 45:35 and the game demo at 52:13 are pretty amazing. Especially that game demo. As the guy says, it's hard to believe it's running on a mobile device. And the use of the built-in accelerometer for character control is very cool. The device/browser comparison at 1:29:20 is also pretty convincing.

And watching all this, it surprises me that Apple pushed so hard for the iPhone brand name, as phone calls are pretty much the least of what the iPhone does. It's like calling the iMac the DoorStop. Sure, it can do that — and do it well, you know — but my, it can do so much more. It's a fully featured, micro-sized personal computer! I guess iPhone rolls off the tongue easily, and sits comfortably within Apple's "i" stable, but it does seem like an unnecessarily timid name, especially when you consider the boldness of 'iPod'. MacNano seems like it'd be more appropriate, though equally unimaginative. I guess that's why Apple have been throwing around the quote "The phone that has changed phones forever".

Well, whatever its name might be, I reckon you could call it Apple HotCakes because this baby is going to move.

UPDATE 3: Oh no! I did it again.