Can't make it to New York in a couple weeks? Or maybe you're planning to attend the big shindig, but you couldn't afford a couple hundred bucks for a conference pass, so you're limited to the show floor. Or heck, maybe you live right in Midtown Manhattan but you can't take time off work to attend. For whatever reason, you're bumming because you're going to have to miss Uncle Steve's keynote address, an event unparalleled in religious significance for the devoted Mac user. There is no greater glory than to bask in his live, unfiltered Reality Distortion Field, absorbing those mysterious life-affirming rays. All is Steve, Steve is all, Steve is the Walrus, goo goo g'joob. Wait... What were we just talking about, again?

Oh, missing the keynote. Right. Well, if you can't be there in meatspace, don't beat yourself up about it-- you can always tune in to the simulcast. Yes, Virginia, according to MacCentral, there is a webcast planned. Most of you would never have doubted this for a second, since Apple pretty much always webcasts the domestic Expo Stevenotes, but the more pessimistic among you may have been expecting to be shafted once again, and with good reason: the Tokyo Expo Stevenote was not webcast, despite its strategic importance as the introduction of Pismo. And even this year's WWDC keynote was kept offline, much to the chagrin of Apple-watchers the world over, despite the fact that the show has traditionally been webcast in the past. Luckily, this web-shyness phase appears to be over, so in less than two weeks the 'net will be suffused with live Steveness.

So if you can't see Steve up close and in person, fret not; just make sure you're near a QuickTime Player with a decent connection on the morning of the 19th, and you'll be able to watch the proceedings-- a blurry, smeary, pixellated version of the proceedings, sure, but hey, it's better than nothing. At least, we hope it'll be better than nothing, though at this point we're going entirely by what MacCentral says. Apple still hasn't posted any info on the alleged webcast, so there's still a slim chance that Apple has lost its collective mind and has chosen not to share His Steveness with the rest of the 'net. It's not likely, though, so we'd relax if we were you.