Disembowelled Mighty Mouse

Scott McNulty, I would like to commend you on the way you handled stephen, aka Mr. Grumpy. Way to bite your tounge dude. I don't always like the stories posted here. Some days are better than others. On the "bad" days (for me) I skim the headline and move on. This all reminds me of a quote from a certain comedy, "You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me." Oops, wrong quote. =P I meant these, "Shut the f* up Donnie." "Life does not stop and start at your convenience, you miserable piece of s*."

b.e.n., you are right that metaphorical mouse, however it is not a steadfast rule that metaphorical naming coventions cannot follow the same pularization rules as the originals. Go to any computer store and try to buy mouses and you'll find plenty of mice in their place.

. it is pluralised as "mouses", not mice. it is a metaphorical mouse, and therefore follows a different set of rules. Metaphors do not take the irregular forms of the plural for example : Toronto Maple Leafs - not one of the players is actually a Leaf. The best example comes from family names such as Rothschild. We don't refer to them collectively as "Rothschildren", we call them the Rothchilds. .

Hehe, I was actually waiting for a post like this. A few weeks ago I was thinking about how Apple could make a 'two' button mouse but keep the sleek look for the Pro Mouse, and they did it. Now I want to see what makes this thing tick. Cmon people, its not like there's much Mac news to talk about at the moment.

Poor Might Mouse, I knew him well. Now if we could only disembowel certain people to discover what makes them loose their senses of humor...

I'm here to serve! :) Another bonus to reading a news reader is it is much easier to skip over posts you don't care about (like most of mine). ;)

good man. thanks for the netnewswire tip.

Stephen, I'm not going to edit your comment out, so feel free to say what you think. Now, I agree that sometimes my (I can't speak for the other bloggers) are not 'news worthy,' but I think that they are at least entertaining (I could be wrong on that account). As for cover the same thing 8 times in 26 hours, well I suppose if you think that the Mighty Mouse meritted only one post then we're guilty as charged. However, each of those posts covered something different (and only one was about l33t photoshop skillz). As for ads, who visits the actual website anymore? Get yourself a copy of NetNewsWire Lite (the free version) and then the only adds you will see on TUAW's feed are some text adds at the bottom of the post that are easily ignored.... I mean, that are easily clickable since they will take you to valuable services and goods that interest you.

my apologies. i forgot that you guys have to post a certain number of times per month, so you can get paid. regardless of whether or not its total crap. "LOLZ, I PHOTOSHOPPED AN EARRING ONTO MY MOUSE. WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT IT!!!!1111!!!!" Pretty bad that a weblog that is supposed to be about the technology used by the most creative people in the world can't come up with any content without having to cover the same thing 8 times in 26 hours. I'm sure this will get edited out. However, I thing that if you guys are going to bother doing this, you really do need to come up with some good stuff. It's bad enough trying to read through your ad-ridden pages (which, by the way, take up 45% of my browsing space) .

Well, Stephen, not too much is going on in the world of Apple other than the Mighty Mouse, the iTMS Japan, and Henrico county. We could start making up news like Appleinsider...