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If you have to get five other suckers to sign up in order to get your iPod, it's a pyramid. At least with MLM outfits like Herbalife, you can theoretically make money selling the pills and without building a downline.

Turns out that only 4% of the FreeiPods.com suckers have gotten their units and they're being spammed, too. It most certainly is a pyramid scheme.

"ethical business practices." Funny.

The next post on Bill Palmer's blog might be quite an amusing read.

We seem to have slashdotted the apple store, too.

All you need to know is that this fallacious "Sub $500 mac" is not going to happen. Period.

see billpalmer.net for more information. It makes no sense for Apple to make, it has no market to fit in, and even if it did they couldn't make it for the cost some rumormonger has conjured up out of nowhere.

One thing missing, is this isn't a real machine. Apple aren't actually going to produce a sub $500 mac any time soon, or any time at all. What Apple are suing over is the damage that hyping up expectations of an impossible machine is going to do for Apple.

After the keynote and there's no sub-$500 headless iMac or eMac, Apple is going to be a very unpopular company among the geek crowd. Of course that won't stop people from expecting it'll come out at the next event, or the next one, or the one after that...

see billpalmer.net for the sanest commentary on this ludicrousness.

Not surprising from a guy that stated that "The iPod is terrible as a PDA"!

I tested the "crack" at work when I bought a 20 oz Diet Pepsi at the cafeteria, and accurately predicted that the bottle I had purchased was a winner. However, it has to look fishy to others when you're standing there holding the bottle at a funny angle, so I've refrained from actually trying to capitalize on it.