[Bobalu]

This is just stupid. It's like trying to patent the red bottoms of Christian Louboutin shoes.

This is the sort of thing that keeps me from being an Apple Fanboy.... it's just too stupid to join in with.

[dayglored]

> ...the red bottoms of Christian Louboutin shoes...

What, that red isn't patented? My God, man, it -should- be. That's RED.

OTOH, it's a very good thing you mentioned what that picture is of. I stared at it for half a minute thinking it was a bizarre USB Flash drive, or possibly a tequila bottle from Hell, before I read your sentence.

[dayglored]

> This is the sort of thing that keeps me from being an Apple Fanboy...

You'll be thrilled to know that you don't have to be an Apple Fanboy to enjoy Apple products.

Thanks to a radically new, dramatically improved way of looking at things available from Apple since March, you can now own as many as three Apple products without having to register as an Apple Fanboy. All you have to do is like a few Apple products better than their competition enough to purchase them instead.

Of course, this sometimes comes with a responsibility to pony up a little more cash than for the competition's products, but that's because you can't produce high quality products for the same cost as producing lesser ones. Apple charges only what the traffic will allow, in small unmarked bills, delivered to me, Ralph Icebag, in a plain brown wrapper, by a brown-shoed square in the dead of night!

No, wait, that's Firesign...