Some of my best times playing WoW was with a friend and his laptop at my place (or my laptop at his place). We'd get a case of beer and play WoW for the evening. It was fun to be able to laugh and joke with the other player in the same room. It was much more interesting than playing at home by myself.

There is something to be said for having friends in the same room.

Andy Rubin's response to Jobs (via twitter): the definition of open: "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"

Yes, a Back to the Mac tagline and a picture of a Lion. Lion being one of the few big cats not yet associated with an OS X release. This is as close to a sure thing as you can get with Apple media events. Hopefully, it'll be out early in 2011. I wonder what generations of hardware will be excluded in this release.

These patents are absurd. We've debated the frivolousness of many patents here for a while, but a patent for "Receiver having concealed external antenna" is just laughable. It makes me wonder if there is a patent for have an non-concealed antenna.

The 'monopoly' over mobile apps through the App Store still needs to be sold to me. Apple doesn't own the apps on the App store, so do they have a monopoly on them? Think for a second about that. The App Store is effectively a very specialized clearing house. Only Apple Blessed Apps may be sold in the Clearing House, but Apple does not own the Apps. So how can the App Store be construed to be a monopoly?

MC