Speaking of QuickTime 4 Streaming (oh, we are just masters of segue), we've got a little bone to pick with Apple. See, the Computer Company Formerly Known As "Beleaguered" has just posted a press release describing the keynote address and satellite broadcast info for this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, commencing a week from Monday. (That's May 10th for the calendrically-challenged among you.) And while our busy little social calendar is already booked that day, we're sure millions of Apple fans would just love to catch the keynote address, featuring both Steve "The Man" Jobs and Avie "The other Man" Tevanian discussing Apple's "software road map" and giving "the first in-depth look at Mac OS X." And we're sure that of those millions of interested parties, only a tiny percentage are registered developers, and an even smaller percentage can pony up the $995 (or $1295 if you register after tomorrow) plus airfare and hotel bills to attend.

But since Mac OS X affects us all, and since technology brings us all wonderful ways to communicate while breaking down the boundaries of geography, we should be all set, right? Kindasorta. As usual, Apple has posted the satellite information for the keynote session, so those of you unlucky enough not to be attending but fortunate enough to have a satellite dish, you're golden. The rest of us, however, might just be out of luck, because Apple has inexplicably not posted any intention of webcasting the event via QuickTime 4. Which is absurd, since doing so would be a great way to demonstrate QuickTime 4's powerful live streaming capabilities. C'mon, guys, for two hours just pull the plug on Bloomberg News and jack into the WWDC satellite feed instead. Fans will dig it. Important industry types will sit up and take notice. Everyone will be happy.

There's still a week to go, so we still have a hard time believing that Apple won't webcast the event; it's just to obvious a move not to take, so we'll wait and see. By the way, those of you lucky enough (and solvent enough) to be attending the WWDC live and in person, take great pains not to miss Sinbad at the AppleMasters Session. We heard his Mac-centric comedy routine at last year's Macworld Expo in New York, and it was, as Ross Perot would so delicately put it, "pee-in-your-pants funny." (Personally, we'd classify it as "[expletive] funny" ourselves, but we don't want to endanger our TV-G rating. We also think that showing Ross Perot's head should automatically shoot any TV show into PG territory, as it's been scientifically shown to frighten small children, but that's a whole 'nother story.)