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Top Chef challenge winner gets MacBook Pro
If you're a fan of Bravo's Top Chef and you haven't watched last night's episode yet, I won't spoil it by telling you who won the challenge and who got eliminated. I will tell you, however, that the elimination winner received a MacBook Pro 17" as the award for the best performance in the challenge. Not too shabby.Considering the consistently high level of product placement on Bravo's shows, it's not all that surprising to see a Mac in the mix -- style maven Tim Gunn even sports a MacBook Pro on the host desk for his new show. What I wasn't expecting was the high level of enthusiasm the winner showed for the prize -- jumping up and down with glee, and the other chefs writhing in disappointment. Very nice.
Thanks, Heidi.
Last night
on Fox's Family Guy, Stewie had a little fun with his Mac. While practicing for the Olympics, his brother Chris
interrupted his "training" (don't ask). Stewie responded by knocking Chris unconscious with a book, and using
his motionless body as a landing platform for his pole vaulting practice. Delighted, he announced, "...That was
even cooler than playing with the speech function on my Macintosh."
The Washington
Post has an interesting article about all the 
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