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Crazy Apple Rumors Site Skewers Week’s News

Crazy Apple Rumors Site Skewers Week’s News — John Moltz’s Crazy Apple Rumors site is one of my must-reads every day, and while I find the site funny most of the time, not many weeks have as many news stories so ripe for skewering. On 03-Jul-06, John picked up on the news of several well-known bloggers switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux. The site’s coverage announced excitedly that it would henceforth be known as Crazy Ubuntu Rumors, a euphoria that lasts for several paragraphs until reality set in. Two days later, John was back, with a graphical look at all the different devices that sources claimed would be running "Leopard Mobile" (a rumored version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard for the iPod), ranging from the Motorola Razr cell phone to, well, a bagel. The picture of the "Leopard Mobile" screenshot pasted over a cream-cheese slathered bagel says so much about rumors in the Mac world. And finally, on 06-Jul-06, the news of Microsoft’s impending "iPod killer" came under John’s knife, as he poked fun at Microsoft’s staid naming scheme, calling it the "Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 Portable Media Player Device Media Player Media Player Media Player," after which he listed out the first six steps in the device’s instructions, an over-the-top parody of the worst Windows documentation imaginable. If you haven’t visited Crazy Apple Rumors recently and need a laugh, last week’s posts are utterly worth the visit. [ACE]

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