That’s right – it’s a wee little Apple Store that fits neatly inside a shoebox. “Why?” you’re probably asking, but I think the real question is, “Why not?” The tiny store (complete with Genius Bar, of course) was made by Gary Katz, who also made this diorama with a working iPad that’s supposed to make you feel like you’re at a concert.

Awesome? Weird? Or both?

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I saw this and immediately figured it was a response to Firefox 4, which has caused me to use Force Quit more in the last couple of months than any time since I bought my latest computer. DeviantART member Ron Guyatt unveiled this only a week after the browser release. Coincidence? Link -via Laughing Squid

Natania of Geeks Are Sexy is a decades-long Mac user … but recently she came to the dark side. Here’s how a Mac lover turned against Apple:

Price me out. My MacBook can’t hold its weight anymore. A new MacBook starts at about $1,000. Other laptops, however, with far better specs, running Windows or Linux, can be purchased for half that much. So, with the Mac, what I’m really paying for is the logo and the shiny factor, not the performance factor. And since I’m doing a lot of graphic design these days, not to mention gaming (which will be addressed below), specs are a lot more important than they used to be. There’s a point where you examine the specs of the machines side by side and really have to ask yourself how much the Apple software is worth. Because that’s where the price tag is.

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Make it difficult for the gimpier geeks. I’ve got carpal tunnel. I can’t use a normal keyboard. Typing on the MacBook is a special kind of torture for me, so I have to buy ergonomic in order to avoid the pain. Does Apple have a version of their delightful aluminum keyboard with a gentle, ergonomic curve to it? Nope. And the newest Magic Mouse… don’t get me started on the kind of pain involved using that (seriously, did they try to make it painful? Is this some strange torture device?).

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This video is an OD to the Mac by way of the Mac Museum, a two minute rendition of simple tech desktop computers like the Mac II, IMac G4 and G5 to the more advanced IMac Core 2 Duo and IPad.

My introduction to the Mac was the little Mac Classic which isn’t featured in this video. They’ve come a long way since then.

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How well do you know your computers, operating systems, and peripherals? Find out with this Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss. They’ll give you a question, and you decide whether they’re talking about an Apple computer, or an IBM clone type computer that uses Windows. Or neither. I scored 80%! Link

James Théophane Jr. was asked to contribute a piece of art for his company, so he decided to hack an old painting from a flea market and turn it into a physical rendering of a crashed Mac app, complete with the spinning wheel of death!

More pics (including several build photos) at Theo’s blog: Link – via Valentina Tanni

In case you didn’t realize how far component miniaturization has progressed in the past decade: casemodder Klaus Diebel offers the iMac CS, which is an iMac case (in your choice of colors) that contains a computer (a Mac mini), a sound system, and a coffee maker! Each unit is custom-made, so you’ll have to discuss the price with him if you want one. Link -via Gizmodo

Sure Windows is bad. Awfully bad (I’m looking at you, Vista) but according to Charlie Brooker of The Guardian, there is something worse than Microsoft’s operating system: the cult of Mac worshippers!

Consequently, nothing pleases them more than watching a PC owner struggle with a slab of non-Mac machinery. It validates their spiritual choice. Recently I sat in a room trying to write something on a Sony Vaio PC laptop which seemed to be running a special slow-motion edition of Windows Vista specifically designed to infuriate human beings as much as possible. Trying to get it to do anything was like issuing instructions to a depressed employee over a sluggish satellite feed. When I clicked on an application it spent a small eternity contemplating the philosophical implications of opening it, begrudgingly complying with my request several months later. It drove me up the wall. I called it a bastard and worse. At one point I punched a table.

This drew the attention of two nearby Mac owners. They hovered over and stood beside me, like placid monks.

"Ah: the delights of Vista," said one.

"It really is time you got a Mac," said the other.

"They’re just better," sang monk number one.

"You won’t regret it," whispered the second.

But never fear, dear Mac lovers, Microsoft is trying to brew its own cult by using Windows 7 Launch Parties propaganda: Link

Folder Type is a typography created by Emilio Gomariz out of 22,655 color-coded Mac file folders. And here’s the kicker: no script was used – he did it all by hand, which proves that his folder-fu is much, much stronger than mine and that he’s got a lot of time on his hands.

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From the Upcoming Queue, submitted by whitespace.

Don’t miss this one: Link [embedded YouTube clip]

No homebuilding slow down at my house. My two-and-a-half-and-don’t-
you-forget-the-half-daddy daughter is on a gingerbread house-building binge.

So when I was looking for inspiration online (read: wasting time in the guise of doing something productive), I ran across this fantastic gingerbread Mac by Flickr user minorbug.

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