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Steve Jobs and Apple have in some way changed our world, few people would dispute that. But as we know Apple fandom has always gone well beyond this; we extoll Apple’s triumphs and vigorously defend their (many) errors, which in turn has bred a healthy – and at times unhealthy – rivalry with Windows PC users. Surely a unique situation, how may other multi-billion dollar corporations have you ever got in a fight in the pub to defend?

As good an excuse as any to post Adam Buxton here at Bug – it’s important we know exactly which version of Mac OS is used in this video, right?

Farewell Steve

And thanks for everything

Decode the QR Code

Artists and musicians have been using gorilla sticker campaigns with QR codes for a good few years now to get their work onto your ‘generic-mobile-device’ (or ‘iPhone’ to you and me). More recently it seems that everybody with some online content to promote has caught up and these undecipherable and none to pretty blocks of black and white squares are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Turns out that these things are pretty robust don’t have to be as ugly as you might think. With a little bit of work you can make something that still works and has some beauty all of its own. And the message in the stencilled code above? ‘U R SO PORNO BABY!’. Thanks for that Mr Fahrenheit, you made my day.

Frankenstein’s Computer

This is cool! The mind of a fully functioning modern PC in transplanted into the body of the original Commodore 64. If PCs all looked like this I would consider owning one. But they don’t, so I’ll probably stick to my Mac. More here