As someone with Apple products up to my eyebrows, I happened to click on the Apple home page yesterday to see if I could figure out why the new 2GB of RAM I installed was causing sudden kernel panics when I wake my iMac from sleep. Of course Apple kernel panics are also commonly known as the Apple “black screen of death”, although I can assure you they are almost never as frequent or as irritating as the Windows blue screen of death that, several years ago, pushed me over to Apple in the first place . Anyway, I’m not overly concerned about the 2 kernel panics I’ve had since installing the RAM two days ago (compared to never having had one on my iMac in the past year, although I’ve had a few on my Macbook) - if it continues, I’ll take action.

Anyway, that’s what drove me to the Apple home page and, then, when I got there, I have to admit, I was pretty surprised to see this:

Out of curiosity, I clicked over to the Apple Japan homepage and there was no Al:

I dunno…not that I am really overly supportive of the selection of Al for the Nobel Peace Prize (I don’t equate environmental issues with peace initiatives); HOWEVER, I thought the Nobel Peace Prize was a global thing, and, perhaps even more important, I thought the whole point of Al’s big push for climate change was also supposed to be a global thing. Not for Apple, I guess, when you have a new product to push in a giant, tech-hungry market….