MacNumerology: News.com reports some weird cosmic connection in today’s announcement about the Intel-based Mac and the closing price of Apple’s stock today: $80.86. As in, the Intel 8086, “the 1978 processor that spawned the x86 architecture that PC users are so familiar with.”

(Personally, I think that’s nothing compared to the announcement by Jobs that videos of the TV series Lost have been downloaded via iTunes 4,815,162,342 times - note: that’s an inside joke for “Lost” junkies.)

(via: Tim Germer)

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Personal favorite Macword announcement: Steve Jobs didn’t announce this one. Garmin, the folks who make my favorite gadget, this GPS/heartrate monitor, announced they are making it Mac compatible so it can work with services like Motionbased.com.

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Over predicting: Think Secret has a tradition of recapping its Macworld predictions. This year, they seem to have over-predicted and under-delivered. Then, again, if Apple had announced everything that has been rumored (by Think Secret and others), the keynote would still be rolling. For those who have asked (and it’s weird how many have), I do not have a MacBook Pro ordered. And, for the record, I find the product name less than inspiring (Do you want fries with that MacBook? Gee, when’d you get that MickeyB?) but Apple’s branding gurus tend to be right more times than wrong.

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Here’s the RSS feed of my Flickr account: It’s something that’s been around for months. Everytime I post a photo to my Flickr account, it will update wherever you have that RSS feed flowing. In fact, you can subscribe to lots of different RSS feeds related to the tags I use or the contacts I have. And it doesn’t require a .Mac account, even though I have one. Now it has a new name: “Photocasting. It’s like podcasting for photos.”

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Still Cookin’: Here is a great story from the magazine Country Roads about the post-Katrina efforts of Louisana Cookin’ Magazine to keep publishing. And while the article says some nice things about me, let me clarify something. All the back-patting should not go to me, but to the folks at Hammock Publishing who actually did those things mentioned. By the way, if you subscribe (or renew a subscription) to Louisiana Cookin’, you can get one of those CDs of recipes mentioned in the article. Bonus link: the Keep Cookin’ weblog.

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