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Twenty Hail Steves (11/25/99)
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While we're giving thanks for the fact that at least one AtAT staff member has the magic touch when it comes to pie crust, we're also thankful for our faithful viewers, who tune in day after day to see what's shaking in the melodramatic world of Apple. And we're especially thankful for the viewers who take the time to send us feedback and sometimes even tip us off to the weird, wild stuff going on out there among Mac users. For instance, faithful viewer Matthew Guerrieri not only fed us a vegan "wicked-looking confit," but he also pointed out an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about an art exhibit featuring iMacs in prayer.
That's right: in prayer. Artist Lorette Skeddle has created a "CyberRosary" by arranging a circle of iMacs and programming them to recite prayers to one another, as part of an exhibit at the School of Visual Arts. A Mac with an Apple Studio Display is the designated prayer leader, and people can interact with the prayer group by kneeling in the middle of the circle and "pushing a series of buttons that look like rosary beads." Ms. Skeddle raises some interesting questions about the blurring line between computers and humans. Her iMac prayer circle also provokes thought about people's own spirituality-- whether they're really praying or just going through the motions. And who's to say that computers don't need religion-- or won't, as artificial intelligence technology progresses?
Or, you can just look at the whole thing as a neat use for a bunch of iMacs. If it were up to us, we'd probably change the prayer book a bit for the exhibit; instead of reciting the Lord's Prayer, we think it'd be more appropriate if the iMac were praying for a better keyboard, fewer Type 2 errors, and the second coming: the advent of Mac OS X. "Now I put myself to Sleep, I pray for Jobs my RAM to keep..."
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/25/99 episode: November 25, 1999: We're still waiting for the PowerPC to kick into high gear when it comes to clock speed, but apparently 780 MHz isn't too far off. Meanwhile, yet another anti-Mac journalist has some nice things to say about our platform of choice, and do computers need religion? Well, one artist has taken the first step by teaching some iMacs to pray...
Other scenes from that episode: 1933: Crank It Up A Notch (11/25/99) Well, the plates are cleaned, the belts are loosened, and it's time to settle back in a digestive torpor and reflect on all those things for which we're thankful. And really, it's not tough to get into a thankful frame of mind when stuffed to the gills with stuffing and other stuff... 1934: Thankful For Turnabout (11/25/99) Here's another thing to give thanks for as you consider a second piece of pumpkin pie: rabid anti-Apple journalists who now grudgingly admit that the Mac has certain advantages. This past year, Mac-bashing Jesse Berst of ZDNet Anchordesk publicly declared he was sick of Windows crashes and was seriously considering switching to an iMac...
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