iBook and Y2K sabotage

I'm going to the opening of The Blair Witch Project at midnight tonight at the Cedar Lee Theatrein Cleveland Heights. I hope to have a review posted tomorrow, along with a recap of my last three weeks.

Apple Computer, Inc.: iBook

Time: Steve Jobs' Golden Apple
"The iBook, available this September, morphs iMac's elegant, curvilinear design and Life Savers colors into an affordable portable with a bunch of minor innovations and one major one: AirPort, a PC version of the cordless phone... putting Apple at least a few fiscal quarters ahead of its Windows rivals in the race to free humanity from those pesky cords. Very hot."

DaveNet: Elderly White Male Pundits
There has been an unusual amount of debate around the iBook's looks with repect to gender roles. This essay contains links to John Dvorak's original PC Magazine article in which he claims that "the only thing missing... is the Barbie logo," a resulting rebuttal from Salon questioning "sexist stereotypes," and a less sober backlash from Wired:

So let's see Apple produce a machine truly worthy of manhood [with] a tempting little DVD-ROM drive and plenty of slots and ports for plugging in peripherals. Men want audio animated screen savers of Cindy Crawford singing 'Let Me Entertain You,' and every unit should come with manly accessories like a tire-patch kit, a chain saw, and 'World's Deadliest Sports Mishaps' videotape."

Silicon Valley.com: Experts warn of new Y2K threat: the hired help
"Two of the government's top computer security experts are warning that some programmers hired to fix Year 2000 problems may be quietly installing malicious software code to sabotage companies or give themselves access to sensitive information after the new year."