Oh, Al Gore. What a life you live! Apple board member; Oscar winner; former United States Vice President; and now, Nobel laureate. Gore has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for their work on publicizing climate change. Gore has said he’ll donate his half of the $1.5 million prize money to the Alliance for Climate Protection. Next up: Jonathan Ive will win a Nobel Prize for Awesomeness, due to his fantastic industrial designs.
But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from Gore, it’s this: if I ever want to win a Nobel Peace Prize, or win $1.5 million, I’m seriously going to have to start learning to use Keynote. Because nobody wins a Nobel Peace Prize when their PowerPoint presentation quits half way through because Windows has committed an illegal operation. Just ask Emmett J. Hopenschaller, who in 1998 concocted a foolproof plan to implement world peace when his PC crashed at the opening slide of his slideshow, leaving only the tantalizing title: “Candy and Unicorns.” Hopenschaller never recovered from his shame, and set about on a self-directed mission to completely obliterate all record of himself from the face of the planet.
C'mon techies.....let's get this guy back into the White House...even as a VP again. He's the only one out there who's in touch with what's really going out in the world....and it 'aint good stuff.
I think this is such a well deserved awardee. I have watched Inconvenient Truth about 3 times and I was so touched by his heartfelt message to the world. This is a man with passion not only for saving the earth but protecting humanity itself.
Dan, you should stop posting misleading stuff. In Inconvenient Truth Al Gore was using Keynote on Mac OS X, a modern pre-emptive true multi-tasking operating system.
In 1998 Emmett J. Hopenschaller, was probably using a laptop running Windows 98 or 95 and PowerPoint 97, products while modern for their time, were still not stable enough as todays releases. And don't lie to me by saying that OS 8.x which was available around the same time was reliable too since it lacked all the qualities of a modern OS. Just like Windows 9x you too would get out of memory messages and applications on Mac OS Classic would bring down the entire system when it crashed.
Although you might just be teasing, its still the wrong thing to say. Again, congratulations Al and I hope next years winners will be Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates.
Emmett lives
It is scary that Al Gore is taken seriously on this. It's about money and control. We will survive. I promise.
You know, there are some of us Mac enthusiasts out here who are disappointed that the Nobel Peace Prize went to someone who doesn't practice what he preaches, but let's try to keep this discussion a-political. Oh, did anyone notice the Antarctic icecap reached a record maximum this week?
It would be advisable to keep these discussions a-political, but Gore is definitely a politician and, alas, the choices of the Nobel committee, at least on matters as "peace" and literature, seem to have taken a political trend... I stop here to avoid contradicting my first sentence.
I am a mac customer but I will not buy produced apple because I do not want to sponsor Al Gore and the democratics. No mac, no iTunes store, no iPhone, no iPod. Bye