The 3rd sentence of the post states that he chose the Mac because it would be "closer" to his intended production environment, which was running linux. -- He chose a Mactop over a Thinkpad (full of chipsets with amazingly good linux support) because he thought it would be "closer" to his linux production environment. He later refers to the godsend of his "ubuntu workstation" for being able to continue getting work done. Clearly this man is so incompetent he believes that a machine can only ever run the OS it comes installed with. -- This man is an incompetent troll and this publicity should only serve to get him dropped from any serious employment. Why the discussion in the comments has gone past how flawed his initial reasoning for choosing mac over thinkpad is beyond my understanding. (Then again I have never understood religious arguments or their amazing endurance)

The article seems confused as to whether it was Twitter or Wikileaks which was pushing for Facebook and Google to ante up. The only corroborating bit of evidence for either is a tweet from Wikileaks on jan 7th asking about Google and Facebook subpoenas. I can't find any statements or releases from Twitter regarding the same.

Evil marketing firms are always looking for ways to improve typo-squatting. Popping a root server's address space is the ultimate in NXDOMAIN (failed to match) lookups as every DNS server on the net that cannot resolve a domain (such as unregistered typo-domains) will go further and further back until it hits a root server. Hence having a root server's NXDOMAIN data is the ultimate in typo-squatting.