Friday Funnies Two Days Early

Item One.

New blog fave: Hugh McLeod. Check out his take on the idiotic "FIVE THINGS YOU DON"T KNOW ABOUT ME" meme:

A sampler from Hugh's list:

1. I dislike you intensely. 2. I love it when bad things happen to you. 3. When your name is mentioned I immediately try to change the subject.

Maybe his wit will stop this chain-letter-like scourge. Doubtful, but one can hope.

Item Two:

Fakesteve Jobs is outdoing himself of late. His (her?) post from New Year's Eve is a classic given the current sturm und drang at Apple:

A snippet:

Says one Wall Streeter: If Apple stock had tanked, the real Steve Jobs would be gone.

Item Three:

The ignomy of it all! There was an industry-related question (answer) on Jeopardy last week. Something along the lines of: "This company's popular 1-2-3 program helped companies manage their businesses."

The incorrect answer (question) given: "What is Excel?" Poor Lotus. No one remembers nothing.

Item Four:

For the broader world: Scrappleface aka Scott Ott has done a wondrous job detailing Bob Woodward's latest career moves. Scrappleface reports Woodward may release paradigm-breaking interviews with James Brown, Curt Gowdy, Jack Palance and crocodile hunter Steve Irwin "all of whom died in 2006 and may have been secretly critical of Mr. Bush's rationale for invading Iraq."

Those Q&As, of course, would follow the release of Woodward's "embargoed" chat with Saddam Hussein.

Happy New Year!