A significant proportion of the leftynet came grinding to a halt this week with the sacreligious news that US president-elect Barack Obama might own a Zune. "WTF Obama?" the hordes cried, weeping into their HOPE T-shirts. "Surely he's too cool to be a Zune guy?"
It was almost an amusing little subversion of Apple's Mac v PC ads, in which you might expect Obama — who's worshipped for repackaging the obvious with a bit of flash — to play an iPod, while George W Bush would act out his part as Zune: the unloved puppet of an evil empire, and frankly the sort of thing that we'd prefer to forget ever existed in the first place.
Hmmm.
Which leads me, in a squiggly fashion, to this week's Friday Afternoon Question. Well, it's more of a challenge, I suppose.
Describe a famous person as a gadget, and make it funny
I'm hoping for some good ones. If you get stuck, feel free to stretch the definition of gadget to include anything geeky. Or the definition of "famous person".
Best answer wins a picture of Obama looking cool.
