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To what level I can offer helpful or practical advice is unclear, like your girlfriend. Anything said by me has to pass through many layers of filters, moodiness, and shyness. Oh, yes, and possibly sarcasm. Take the case of my friend Steve Atwell, whose computer has viruses and needs to be rebooted every few months. Now, I should have just advised him to shut off his system whenever he is done for the day, and to use Microsoft Security Essentials, which is available from Microsoft for free. I however decided to first respond to the recommendation that Steve should just buy a Mac:

Yes, and why stop with an iMac? Get an iPhone4 and an iPad from Verizon Wireless, and an iPod for your iTunes in your Mitsubishi i! Twitter / Web News 2.0: “Did Apple Buy iCloud.com For $4.5 Million? It’s Possible, But ...”

Did Apple Buy iCloud.com For $4.5 Million? It’s Possible, But …
“Om Malik got a tip from an unidentified source who told him that Apple purchased the domain name icloud.com from a Swedish company called Xcerion (which recently renamed its iCloud service to CloudMe) for about $4.5 million. This is most certainly a possibility. Last week, we also received a tip...”

Yeah, make sure you buy an iCloud, too!

That was not nearly as zany as “HUMANCENTiPAD”, the new South Park episode, which also makes light of a film:

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) - Wikipedia
“The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a 2010 Dutch horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a ‘human centipede’.”

The Apple product was also apparently foretold:

iPad Predicted in 1994 (Video)
“The iPad is a futuristic looking device, but imagining something much like it isn’t terribly new. In the video below, the former newspaper giant Knight-Ridder shows its vision of the newspaper’s future - delivered by tablet computer. Circa 1994. It’s amazing how much the company got right.”

Well, what do you know.