I have to say I would like one of those bottles - what better container for your Precious Bodily Fluids once you've drained the skull of the vodka? Just don't cross the streams.

The best part of this for me is the 'filtering' it with Herkimer Diamonds (which _aren't even diamonds_, just misnamed quartz) to give it a vanilla flavor.

Okay, so maybe it's not as high tech cool, but it seems to me that a low-rpm, low-noise fan running constantly would be less prone to breaking for various reasons and would still be acceptable to most cats. Mine don't have any problem with the bathroom fans (which is where the litterbox is) being on when they need to go. I may actually try that, now that I know it works so well for you.

But not as neat as controlling it with a Mac Mini, yup.

Okay, I made myself watch it again. In retrospect I was a little harsh (comment #5) - I do like some of the ideas like the user stack and everything on the page being push/pullable/serializable, but the navigation cloud is just so hideous it overwhelmed everything else. I am ambivalent over letting other people into my browser window live, but I'm sure that'll be very useful for some people.

Wow. I know the purpose of these concept videos is to be pie in the sky wheeeee and get you thinking about things that might actually be useful, but that was simply awful.

It looked like Aqua + Digg Swarm + Skype in a blender. All you're missing is all the windows wobbling and jiggling like jello every time they move, which is what *nux UI people think is the height of sophistication (Beryl).

More importantly, my current browser/desktop setup is much more functional and usable if you just added all those magic do-what-i-mean graphing tools to it.

As someone who works with XP/2K, Mac OS (since the original!), and Linux/BSD boxes, it's a dirty little secret that Macs and their apps don't crash any less often - in fact more often than either XP or Linux. However there are two things that contribute to the '[the Mac] just works' mystique (and it does in the way that matters).

First, and most importantly, the OS and applications try not to give you choices. That sounds bad, but when they choose sane defaults (and Apple is better than anyone about this) then it is a good thing that saves most people from choice paralysis and being overwhelmed by options that only 1% of people will ever use (hello Outlook and MS Word). It just does things the way you'd expect. Also, the OS and apps are much more consistent (though not perfectly so) than XP or Linux desktops in presentation and behavior, so the user is comfortable.

Second, much like the brain filters out blinking so you don't normally notice yourself blinking, Mac users seem to just filter out the OS or apps crashing. I worked with a guy whose Mac crashed at least twice a day, but he claimed it was just as stable as the XP box (which would literally be up for months if you didn't Update), and I think he believed it. Nor is this uncommon - it seems to be the rule with my Mac exclusive friends. It's only when a new version comes out that the brain allows them user to remember or admit any faults of the previous version that are now fixed.