saturn return to sender

This looks pretty plausible to me. If it’s not the real thing, it should be: it has pegged my gadget-lust-o-meter. Wow. (Also they’ve chosen one of my favorite Zero 7 tunes.)

I maintain my prediction that it will have a built-in iChat AV client. It’s the geek dream of a video phone for anyone using another iTalk or iChat AV, which is standard on every new Mac. It will not only sell itself, but as an iPod and a remote iChat client, it can drive Mac hardware sales.

I’ve been putting off buying Apple stock … maybe now would be a good time.

Yay Dreamhost*! They posted an “exposé” of a hosting review site that approached them about buying a spot on their ostensibly unbiased list of highly-rated hosting companies. It’s stuff like this** that makes me a loyal customer. (And I just paid my yearly fee yesterday, so I was just thinking about how much value I get for my cash.)

The sales guy from the hosting review site:

1. The lowest I could go for the #10 spot is $3200, and that’s only because you would be paying up front for the spot. I know you are trying to keep your cost per acquisition down, but we drive a lot sales to our home page web hosts and it costs us a lot of ‘cake’ to do it.

I so appreciate that DH’s success hasn’t changed its real-folks attitude. The (pseudo-)monthly newsletters are still irreverent and bizarre and I love that, even if I don’t read them. It’s the principle of the thing.