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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Floyd inflatable pig is recovered: “Floyd inflatable pig is recovered”

Seems Roger’s pig got the urge to fly off, but it’s been returned. Not quite intact, however.

BBC has a brief video.

At last: a chance to re-use my photo of Roger’s inflatable pig from Calgary in June…

Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

Apple - Trailers - WALL•E: Another trailer has been released; this is going to be a really fun flick. Can’t wait.

The Street: “Mac Owners Are Snobs”

So, according to this article,

Mac owners are more likely:

• to be perfectionists
• to use notebooks
• to use teeth whitening products
• to drive station wagons
• to pay for downloaded music
• to go to Starbucks
• care about “green” products and the environment
• to own a hybrid car
• and last but not least … to buy 5 pairs of sneakers in a year

• Perfectionist? Nit-picky, maybe, but I’ve never really mastered it, so, no.
• I do use notebooks (paper ones and laptop computers; not sure which they mean…)
• My teeth don’t need to look like they’re made of plastic, thanks.
• Don’t own a station wagon. Ask me again in two weeks, though…
• I do buy all of my music from iTunes. I’ve become allergic to CDs, and I value my time too much to use P2P networks.
• I don’t recall ever buying a drink in a Starbucks. I might’ve, once: I was with other people, and wouldn’t have gone in on my own… Does that count?
• Caring about the environment makes me a snob? Wow. There’s a baseline in need of adjustment…
• No hybrid car. Doesn’t make sense when most of your driving’s on the highway.
• I don’t think I’ve bought five pairs of sneakers in the last fifteen years. Maybe I should walk more (would that make me an environmental snob, though?)

So there.

(Via TUAW.)

Watch this YouTube clip.

It’s the old ladder schtick, but with a tree, and no other people… Quite an accomplishment, actually

(Via reddit, of course…)

A computer shop’s sales pitch: ‘We remove Vista’

From what I hear, Microsoft’s actually done a reasonably good job of improving security in Vista, but people really seem to hate it.

I still haven’t used Vista (XP & XP pro on the non-Macs here), and I’ve only seen it on one person’s laptop in the wild, and that person loved it (but found some of the changes to where things are stored took some getting used to, as compared to XP).

Katemonkey.co.uk: X-UA-Lemur-Compatible: “Lemur 11: It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had an Internet riot. Let’s go for it.”

The blue Zeldman toque is an instant internets classic.

(Via Digital Web.)

5min - Penn & Teller: How to Do the Saw Trick - Video: breaking the magician’s code.

YouTube - Google Maps: OMG this is funny… This is what YouTube was made for.

(Via Digg, natch.)

At Gizmodo

Here’s something to be proud of: New Brunswick mentioned in an Esquire article about ‘Idiot America’:

• Greetings from Idiot America