After these messages we’ll be riiiiight back!

The sole purpose of this post is to show the many ways in which BoingBoing amused me today.

Yarr!

This post absolutely made my day.  Don’t forget that International Talk Like A Pirate Day is September 19, ye scalliwags!

Please do not feed the indie kids

Dear Steve Jobs,

I think you need to have a chat with your marketing department. While I realize that these commercials were meant to make me desire a Mac by making the Mac guy look hip and awesome and the PC dude look frumpy and geeky, they seem to have had the opposite effect.

I like Macs. My family’s first computer was a Mac. I didn’t speak to my mother for days when she decided to get rid of said Mac in favor of a PC. In general, I’d go back to a Mac if I could afford one. But your new commercials have only made me sympathize with the poor PC guy while turning me off of Macs because of the smug, self-important indie-boy Mac user. Don’t be a hater, indie-boy Mac user – embrace your inner nerd!

Mr. Jobs, if you want to entice more people to buy Macs, lowering the price would be a great start. Make commercials that encourage computer n00bs (as they say) and gamers to go for the Mac. Really, though, looking down your nose at the 99% of the population who has never heard a single song by Mogwai doesn’t help your popularity. Kthxbye.

Love from my PC laptop,

Me