Robert Scoble, aka Scobleizer, wants a MacBook Pro. By his own admission. Heck he even raised money to buy a reader a MacBook and threw in XP for the Boot Camp. The guys own brother in-law works at Apple. Do see the connections people? He’s been in Silicon Valley for a while now and he’s been bathed in the cutting edge of Apple. Mountain View, former home of his SVC work headquarters, is just next store to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. What influence!

Scoble has known for a long time just how much better OS X is than Windows. Come on, take a look at the Vista beta and see just how much it looks like OS X. You think Robert didn’t have any input on that? “Can’t we make the folder Windows look like glass?” I’m sure he could be heard asking the Vista UI team one rainy morning at Microsoft’s campus. After using Spotlight and realizing just how powerful it was, I’m sure Scoble was running to the engineering team on that one! Hey, don’t even get me started on the widgets.

Then just a couple of weeks ago, Scoble stops by the Apple Store in San Francisco to do an episode of TWiT with Leo Laporte. What better place to be in just hours before announcing to the world he was leaving Microsoft? Don’t you see it?!

Robert Scoble was just looking for an excuse to work for a place where he could freely walk into an Apple Store, probably Valley Faire’s store in San Jose, and load up on some high quality Macs without having to worry about Steve Ballmer throwing office furnature at him. I’m sure of it!

I’m sure Robert will never admit leaving Redmond for his secret love of Cupertino, but you know, we all here down in SV know the truth. Everything’s out in the open down in the Valley and it’s just too hard to hide it and live a false life. Scoble knew it and now he’s free!

[Picture Via Scobleizer Moblog]
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You would think with all the paparazzi filming Paris Hilton that she would have at least stopped and got out to leave a note on the car she hit, don’t you? But no, all she could do from within her Range Rover was utter an explicit and drive off. Now she must have had been slightly stunned since she took a pause before squealing out of the parking garage, but fact still remains, she broke the law and now we can all sing in chorus that Def Leppard song together about Paris. “HIT AND RUUUUN!” Man, the 80s rocked.

[Via Autoblog]

Here"s something to ease your tech frenzy day and help with having a good laugh. Note on number 24; I have no brake fluid. I checked.

The following came from an anonymous Mother in Austin, Texas… Things I"ve learned from my boys
(honest and not kidding):

1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.

2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.

3.) A 3-year old boy"s voice is louder than 200 adults in a crowded restaurant.

4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy
wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to
spread paint on all four walls of a 20×20 ft. room.

5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn"t stop a baseball hit by a ceiling fan.

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Looking for a challenge today? Throw an egg up these moving baskets and see how good your judgment is. If you make it to the top without dropping an egg, then you are a true master.

Ya, I know, this isn"t the cutting news for the start of the week, but it"s something to start your week with.

Hey, if you think you"re getting some money from Bill Gates for send me some e-mail or that there is a bill in Congress that states we"ll be charged five cents for every e-mail we send, then you need to listen to this guy. He"ll set you straight…and put a smile on your face.

Thanks Edy for the link.

Remember the Steve Jobs skit on SNL about the iPods? If so, then you remember the Invsia. You know, the iPod that measures 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm, weighs 0.000000oz (shipping weight 0.000001 oz), stores up to 8 million songs and will hold every photo you’ve ever taken? Some people I guess don’t realize it was a skit as it was on eBay and was up to $50 with a 12 bid history!

You’re kidding, right? I can understand being funny and all and keeping a good joke going, but dude, this is NOTHING! eBay at least had some sense and removed the item but if you want to at least see the picture, hit tuaw.com for that.

UPDATE: I just got an e-mail from the guy posted this and he told me that he put another one back up. Too bad eBay already yanked that one, too!

Sometimes you find interesting things on the web. You know with over a 150 billion web pages, you’re bound to find something bizarre enough to question its reality. Once confirmed that indeed it is true, all one can do is laugh and marvel at the world in which one lives in.

I found this interesting post on Craigslist. Yes, Craigslist shows more then just stuff for sale, but ideas that are trying to be conveyed and these are free offerings. One man who posted an open letter to a person, which he named Crackhead, is one of these interesting reads. Now I fully warn you, this guy is not a happy puppy and it contains a few words that I would not use here. So read with that warning in mind. I will give you the synopsis of the story, though. Basically some guy is stealing the posters spark plugs to make crack pipes. The poster ends up “supplying” the thief by rendering his motorcycle useful with every theft that occurs. This is what angers our poster.

I tell you, very odd things indeed in our world…

Lockergnome reader commented on one of my articles and sent me an interesting link. The contraption brings new meaning to the phrase couch potato, aye?

Why does this not surprise me? The RIAA is now taking your stickin’ fanny to the ringer if you so much as tell a friend about Madonna’s new album. Wait a minute, that’s bad? Oh sorry, I digress. Ya, starting spreading the word about music around your neighborhood for free and — BAM! — you’re busted. Don’t do it, man. It’s just not worth it.

Thanks Jon for warning me about this. I almost was going to tell you about the new Depeche Mode album. Man, you saved me!

LOS ANGELES—The Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. “We are merely exercising our right to defend our intellectual properties from unauthorized peer-to-peer notification of the existence of copyrighted material,” a press release signed by RIAA…

Get the FULL scoop by reading RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs.

Aren’t kids grand? They say the darndest things. I know, I have two. Here’s some really cute ones I got in an e-mail. Can’t say they’re true, but they did make laugh. Hope they do for you, too.

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: “Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?”

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then asked, “Why doesn’t your skin fit your face?”