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Bestest And Brightestest (11/6/02)
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So asketh Esquire: "Isn't it Great to be a Man?" Well, uh, we're not exactly sure, bub; there's that whole shortened life expectancy thing, for one. Male pattern baldness is not commonly classified as a picnic, either. And when it comes to traditional Western gender roles, men are pretty much expected to watch sports on TV, whereas women get to scope out Lifetime, which features such can't-miss drama as 90210's Tori Spelling in the bestest-named movie ever: Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? So, you know, there are pluses and minuses to be considered.
What we do know is that it's definitely great to be a man named Jonathan Ive-- provided you're the Jonathan Ive whom Esquire has just named one of the 43 "Best and Brightest" innovators in the U.S. this time around. Mr. Ive, as you are no doubt aware, is Uncle Steve's master design guru, and the guy responsible for the distinctive flavor of Apple products ever since the original iMac turned heads back in May of 1998. You can invariably spot him in Apple's little promo films whenever a major new product is released, chatting about the design of said product with an enthusiasm and a subdued intensity that gives just a hint of the massive gears turning in his head. (No, not literally. At least, we don't think so.)
Wondering just what makes a magazine with a pictorial of Mary-Louise Parker posing-- and we quote-- "buck nekkid" an authority on who's better and brighter than whom? Well, to its credit, a couple of decades ago Esquire included one Mr. Steve Jobs in its list, so the names probably aren't just pulled out of a hat. Ive is listed in the "Culture" category, and shares his "Best and Brightest" designation with such remarkable folks as Bill Frist (a U.S. senator and heart surgeon), Will Wright (the guy who created The Sims), and Matthew Rabin (a "guiding light in behavioral economics"-- and you all know how hard it is to be a "guiding light" these days).
So congratulations to Jonathan Ive on this latest honor-- and for our money, any magazine that would publish an article called "10 Things You Don't Know About Women" written by '80s John-Hughes-flick staple Molly Ringwald clearly knows exactly what it's doing.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 11/6/02 episode: November 6, 2002: Oops, we misspoke: Mac Rumors breaks rank and predicts a SuperDrive-equipped PowerBook. Meanwhile, Quark moves to squash rumors of a tiff with Apple even as it tells customers that XPress for Mac OS X won't be here for at least four more months, and Jonathan Ive ranks as one of Esquire's "Best and Brightest"...
Other scenes from that episode: 3822: Did We Miss Anyone Else? (11/6/02) Whoops, time for another weekly erratum dredged up from the murky depths of sleep deprivation, folks! Yesterday, when we let Anya take the reins and she (apparently) predicted the inclusion of a SuperDrive in those brand spankin' new PowerBooks due to surface any ol' minute now, we blithely asserted that "the entire Mac rumor community" was expecting otherwise; unfortunately, we'd wandered into the realm of hyperbole (who, US?!) and obscured the truth... 3823: Quark's Not Very XPress (11/6/02) Say, does everyone remember when Adobe was playing the role of the Evil Non-Carbonizing Villain and rumors were flying that the lack of a Mac OS X-native Photoshop was actually the result of an epic spite-fest between Adobe and Apple over the development of iPhoto?...
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