Some things are tough for the mortal mind to grasp. For instance, it's been weeks since ZDNet's avowed Windows fan David Coursey publicly revealed that he's getting in touch with his Mac side; you'd think that by now we could hear him dish our platform a compliment or two without having to suppress the feeling that Rod Serling is lurking in our linen closet, ready to pounce. Nonetheless, with each passing week, David gets a little more Mac-friendly... and we still find ourselves nervously poking a broom handle into the shadows behind the guest towels just in case.

Of course, in light of Mr. Coursey's latest article (which we found via Peter Kirn's posting over at the PowerPage), we can perhaps be excused for thinking we've gone straight past the Twilight Zone and wound up deep into Night Gallery territory. Here's a Coursey quote for the record books: "Frankly, I am getting a bit tired of telling these Windows bigots-- people who don't even know why they use Windows except that everyone else does-- about the wonders of Macintosh." Say whaaaa? Is Mr. Coursey perhaps channeling the restless spirit of a circa 1997 Guy Kawasaki? Our Serlingometer just buried its needle. Rod? Rod, is that you?

Granted, this isn't a total conversion-- yet-- since Coursey insists that he still hasn't "become a Mac zealot." But judging by at least some of his words lately (e.g. about the aforementioned Windows bigots: "I'd hate to push them into a non-conformity they just couldn't handle." Oooh, snarky!), his newfound "very healthy respect for the Mac" may well be tugging him involuntarily in that direction. Oh, sure, now he's just railing against the so-called "Mac voyeurs" that clearly want to switch from Windows but can't muster the guts to suck it up and make the leap. But from there it's a short hop to dyeing one's hair Aqua and penning manifestoes about how the Macintosh Way represents the ultimate liberation of the human spirit from the shackles of creative oppression.

Not that we think David Coursey is really a likely candidate for that sort of wholesale platform conversion; more likely than not, he's going to finish up his month with a Mac and then return to daily Windows use with a far more balanced and informed attitude in his writing. Oh, wait-- we just noticed that his 30 days of Mac use just turned into six weeks because of "illness." Hmmm... suppose Coursey's one to fake a cough just to score an extra fortnight in Macland before having to trudge back to boring ol' Windowsville? Perhaps the transformation really has begun...