Grudging props to Mac OS

So, Microsoft, Sony, and Apple are basically the only tech companies that I really loathe.  Microsoft and Sony are pretty much irredeemably awful.  Apple does some cool stuff (hint: not iPod) but they're surrounded by such an insufferably smug attitude and I hate the frickin' Steve Jobs personality cult.

Anyway... I'm at my grandparents' house for the weekend, and they have an iMac connected to a DSL modem.  No router.  So how the heck am I supposed to get my notebook online?

Alaska... is that for real??

Well, the Democrats won pretty big last night, with a few astonishing exceptions.

Did convicted felon Ted Stevens really keep his Senate seat, and equally sketchy Don Young his at-large congressional seat???

Apparently they both won... un-effing-believable, especially given that the polling seemed to strongly indicate that both corrupt politicians would lose to their Democratic challengers.

Looks like Oregon Republican Gordon Smith has also managed to keep his Senate seat, despite the long odds in a Democratic wave. He, of course, is a moderate Republican and hasn't been tainted by any scandals, so it's less shocking, but no less surprising given the polls going against him.

Palin gets pranked

From The Huffington Post, with the audio!!!

The AP reports that a Quebec comedy duo, posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy, have successfully prank called Sarah Palin.

Okay, this is certainly not the highest form of political discourse we have, but it is so freakin' funny. My favorite parts are the incredibly, brazenly ridiculous pop culture references in French. So here's my annotated transcript with translations of the hilarious French bits.

I just donated money to a couple of political campaigns...

... for the first time in my life. Thanks to this nasty, nasty innuendo-filled ad by Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, against her rival Kay Hagan.