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Wow, Mac OS X version 10.0 was released 5 years ago today. ArsTechnica has a nice write up marking the occasion. Fave quote:

“The original Mac users had a very different experience. Back then, the Mac wasn’t a seductive whisper; it was a bolt of lightning, a wake-up call, a goddamn slap in the face. “Holy crap! This is it!” Like I said, transformative. For the rest of the computing world, that revelatory moment was paced out over an entire decade. The experience was diluted, and the people were transformed slowly, imperceptibly.“

Five years of Mac OS X

The most Dugg story on Digg right now and there is good reason why. Remember when I was saying that calendaring was the next online revolution? Well, Google is on the way in and TechCrunch has the screenshots to prove it. Boy does it seem cool.

It must just be the season. There are some really fun and entertaining tales of install issues, hardware crashes and other tales of geek woe over at the Geek Gather blog. Take for instance:

• The Ubuntu Adventure – What happens when you put a geek in a room with a few dying iBooks, a Linux CD and some time?
• The Dell Experiment – When ZIF sockets and thermal paste go horribly wrong.
• Infinite Loop – “Dammit Jim! I’m a podcaster not a routing specialist!”

You can find these and many other geek tales at http://geekgather.org/blog