My oh my, the fur may fly, if what Mac the Knife's saying is true. It appears that an unspecified "leading manufacturer of Wintel systems" is planning to have a booth at January's MacWorld Expo in San Francisco. AtAT is unsure whether to classify such a move as: a) incredibly business-savvy, as some Mac users are being forced to consider the Wintel platform; b) stupendously brave, considering the rabid faithfulness of throngs of Mac fans, especially the ones who shell out the cash to go to MacWorld; or c) tremendously stupid-- again, considering the rabid faithfulness of throngs of Mac fans. When you throw a large Wintel manufacturer into a convention center with macophiles who've been pushed to the brink with an incessant stream of anti-Apple press, threats of forced migration to Windows at work, and dancing Intel clean-room engineers on the telly, we think that grievous bodily harm is not an altogether unlikely result.

Now, AtAT are pacifists by nature, and we cannot condone intentional violence to any living creatures. Really, people, if Dell or Gateway sets up shop at the Moscone Center, please keep the automatic weapons holstered, and while it's marginally okay to use your combat knife to carve the phrase "Bill Must Die" into your bullets, it is not socially acceptable to plant said knife squarely between the shoulderblades of a Wintel sales rep. And lastly, if you must act on these psychotic impulses, try to avoid screaming "This one's for AtAT!" when you are pumping the booth full of lead-- we don't need the lawsuit. We recommend "Guy Kawasaki Rules!" as an alternate battle cry, since he's used to dealing with stuff like that.

By the way, AtAT regretfully won't be able to switch coasts and attend the event. Are any of our faithful viewers planning on going, and would they be willing to take photos of the ensuing bloodshed? ;-)