Couldn’t Help But Notice (041307)

Apple critics finally get to crow a bit — The company won’t have the Leopard operating system 10.5 ready until October. The original plan was for a June release.

At least with Apple, you don’t have to ask “in what year?”

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My reactions to Don Imus’s firing:

• Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson were in line for a major call-out over their vitriolic rush to judgment in the Duke non-case, and have mostly dodged the, uh, rap. The Imus situation was too convenient an opportunity for them to ignore. Given a choice between a) emphasizing a one-year nightmare built on lies and race-baiting of the worst kind, and b) dragging out the Imus story by trying, and succeeding, in sending him to TV/radio oblivion, they knew which one Old Media, whose hands are by no means clean in the Duke non-case (and whose minions are desperately spinning their complicity in the shameful hysterics that arose from it), would run with.
• The fact that there is some pushback on Sharpton’s overreach and sordid past history (noted by Lorie Byrd at Wizbang) doesn’t change the validity of the previous point. The bottom line is that the Duke non-case is a distant second-fiddle story. Al’s mission is accomplished.
• Imus is probably wishing that XM and Sirius weren’t on the verge of merging.
• Someone ought to post a vid of Imus’s complete remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner roughly 10 years ago. Viewers will be left wondering why his remarks last week became the tipping point.

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Everyone, regardless of this opinion on Iraq situation, should watch this, and wonder why it took a blogger who went to Iraq on his own dime to get such a report.

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“Worst economy since Hoover” update — Information Week says (HT Techdirt) that hourly pay for techies is at the highest level since 2001.