One of the things I won’t see now that I’ve been seduced away from the Dark Side by Apple. Wikipedia has a great history of Microft’s well-known (to Windows users) error screen. Even Bill Gates can’t get away from the monster he created. Below he’s unveiling Windows 98.

It was only a matter of time before some geek figured out how to use the new Apple MacBook as a lightsaber. By utilizing the standard motion-sensor feature that stops the hard drive when it tracks unordinary movement, such as accidentally elbowing your notebook off a table onto the floor. And don’t you know it wouldn’t be long after that that some other geek would reenact a Star Wars fight scene with his new MacBook.

It was an absolute mob scene at Apple’s new Fifth Ave location on Friday, at their brand opening of their only 24-hour,7 days/week, 365 days/year store. The ever elusive Steve Jobs even showed up… which is more than he did for the London shop.
Stars James Woods, Matthew Modine, and Harry Connick, Jr showed up, too.

Check out Apple’s time lapse video of the first 24-hrs.

After months of being shrouded, the entrance to the Apple store at the foot of the GM building is uncovered at 3:30 am this morning. The seemingly floating logo is suspended over the entrance staircase leading down to the 20,000-square-foot lower level store, which can be browsed from street level through the cube.

Looks like Steve Jobs has consumers under his spell: Lure them towards the light like deer in headlights, have them with their noses pressed to the window, lure them in with the candy-like products below, oh so close to being theirs.   ("My Precious…")

The doors open at 6 pm Friday night, I’ll meet you there…
Oh, and bring a credit card.

Workers at the site, on the corner 59th St and 5th Ave, started peeling the layers off yesterday afternoon.

Through the  black plastic covering, the glowing Apple logo "chandelier" is revealed.