Apple launches Science Productivity Lab

D'oh. And here I was thinking this was going to announce that you could buy old BNSG eps on iTunes.

Bill Nye FTW!

Yes, Bill Nye is a Mac guy. He uses his Mac for everything, including monitoring and managing his solar power array.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dano3006/490731497/in/set-72157601068853910/

Apparently, I don't know how to use the comments/email thing... my bad.

He came into the Chicago store a few times, too.

"The use of Bill Nye's picture should not be construed as an endorsement by the Science Guy. He does, though, think that science rules."

He also thinks that Macs rule. I used to work at the Apple store in Chicago, and he came into a few times. Nice guy, that Bile Nye.

I actually helped out Bill Nye one time when I was working at the Apple store in Santa Monica, CA!

He came in and everyone was like "ooh is that Bill Nye?" and so my manager asked me to ID him and find out. Luckily he bought something, but when I asked for ID he sighed and said "Have you ever heard of a TV show called Bill Nye the Science guy?"

Much like The Cider House, Bill Nye rules!

I just watched the movie yesterday on how to create a research poster using Keynote. Pretty interesting I thought. Here's the URL they gave for the template for the poster. It creates a poster 3' x 4' that you can export to a pdf.
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http://www/apple.com/science/poster/WWDC_Poster_Templates.zip

And I have it on good authority that Bill Nye has visited the Mac Store here in Seattle often! :-)

–Steve

Just thinking about their tutorial re:Keynote. Sigh, too bad iWork doesn't support error bars. And too bad that its graph support, great as it may seem, is still not quite as customizable as PowerPoint's setup. And too bad most of its default themes have to be heavily modified (read: make text smaller, arrange to be more compact) to be relevant in a scientific presentation.

I mean I'm all for Keynote - I use it whenever I can to give lab updates, etc. But I've got high expectations...