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Hail to the Chief (11/30/97)
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The ever-watchful MacCentral has noted an interesting tidbit on the MacWorld Expo web site. If you take a look at the Keynote page for the January show, you'll notice a reference to "an insightful presentation by Apple's yet unnamed CEO." So the question is, are they assuming? After all, Apple's been saying forever that the new CEO would be chosen by the end of the year. It only makes sense that he or she would deliver the January keynote, possibly immediately after being announced. But it's certainly also possible that MacWorld isn't assuming-- they may know something that the rest of us don't.

More and more, we at AtAT are regretting not being able to switch coasts for the event (despite Bungie's non-appearance). We hope that some of our faithful viewers will be attending, and can keep us up to date on the juicy points.

 
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From the writer/creator of AtAT, a Pandemic Dad Joke taken WAYYYYYY too far

 

The above scene was taken from the 11/30/97 episode:

November 30, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 227: May I Take Your Order? (11/30/97)   Our own Boston Globe has an article that is primarily a profile of Dell Computer, but is of interest to Applewatchers for its analysis of the pros and cons of the build-to-order paradigm. Dell's success story is legendary; as the pioneer of the build-to-order computer business, they haved increased their value a whopping 20,000% since 1990, all without building a single retail store...

  • 228: Twisted Barbie (11/30/97)   And in the "It's Sunday So Here's Something Totally Unrelated" news, have you heard about Mattel going after unauthorized Barbie sites? ZDNet's got the bizarre, though strangely compelling, story... and it raises some interesting points about culpability on the 'net, and how the lawyers haven't quite caught up yet. See, instead of contacting web site authors and requesting that material be removed, Mattel's been sniping Barbie sites by pointing their lawyers at the ISP's who host the pages...

Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast...
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