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Filed under: Humor, App Store

More Cowbell

Christopher Walken's 'More Cowbell' skit for SNL holds a special place in my heart. So I literally squealed out loud when I saw More Cowbell in the App Store.

Certainly not filed under Productivity, the application presents you with a large cowbell, while the voice of Bruce Dickinson -- yes, the Bruce Dickinson -- lets you know that he's gotta have more cowbell. Outstanding.

So tap away, Gene, tap away -- preferably to the tune of (Don't Fear) the Reaper. Don't do yourself a disservice.

Remember, everyone: I put my pants on, just like the rest of you, one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.

[Via Macenstein.]

Filed under: iTS, Video

Apple Pro covers SNL Season 1 and Broadway Video

Apple's Pro ezine has posted a nice piece by Joe Cellini on the production of Saturday Night Live: The Complete First Season (available on DVD and in iTS) by Broadway Video. The definitive DVD set includes the original 24 "Not Ready For Prime Time Players" episodes from way back in 1975. Why the long delay? Music clearances, which took a full 32 years to finish, leaving BV only six weeks to complete the DVD set in time for the holiday buying season.

Enter XSan. In the process of converting to high-def production, the SNL team built out a ginormous XServe RAID storage network, including a complete 30-year archive of all the standard-def shows stored in 10-bit uncompressed format. Gosh, that's... (quick calculation in AJA Data Rate) about 150 GB per 90-minute show, 30 seasons of 24 shows each: over 100 terabytes of funny, not even counting the HD shows from the past two seasons. With the first season already digitized, the DVD production was dramatically faster than it would have been otherwise, and according to BV, they "did the entire process using Macs running Final Cut Pro, Shake, Final Touch, and DVD Studio Pro, all SAN-based." Cheeseburger cheeseburger!

Filed under: Humor, Video, Steve Jobs, iPhone

Found Video: "Steve Jobs" and iPhone on SNL

"Steve Jobs" appeared on Saturday Night Live last night to talk about the iPhone and it's even better than we thought. Apparently it holds 2 billion, with a 'b,' songs! And it even has an on/off button and a clock! Oh, yeah, and don't forget to download The Office in iTunes.

Thanks Travis!

Filed under: Humor, Video

Found Footage: SNL - Post-It-Notes

It's always nice to see Apple parodies, especially when they: a) have nothing to do with an existing product, or specifically: the iPod, and b) are from the mid-90's. This is a decent SNL spoof that quickly rose up the digg ranks yesterday evening, parodying a fictitious Apple product that's a bit too much disposable overkill for its own good. Enjoy.

[via digg]

Filed under: Macworld, iTS

Variety of Saturday Night Live video available on iTunes

The iTunes Music Store was just refreshed with a number of new items including some Saturday Night Live content. A few sketch collections by year are available as well as a number of Best of's including Christopher Walken, Adam Sandler, and Glida Radner to name a few.

The Best of's will set you back $1.99 each while the sketch collections go for $9.99.

Thanks, Andrew!

Filed under: Humor, iTS, Odds and ends

Free SNL video available on iTunes

iTunes and NBC have made available, for free download, a digital short that appeared on last weekend's Saturday Night Live. Called 'Lazy Sunday,' it is a rap video starring Adam Samberg and Chris Parnell as they rap their way to a screening of the 'Chronicles of Narnia,' and in the process eat a bunch of cupcakes. It is the funniest thing I have seen on SNL in a long, long time and well worth the price (oh, right it is free!).

What a great Christmas present, thanks Apple and NBC!

Filed under: Humor, iPod Family, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs

iPod Invisa for sale on Ebay

invisaqHey, the Steve Jobs skit that recently aired on SNL is finally funny! The all-new, ultra tiny iPod Invisa is for sale on Ebay. It measures 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm x 0.000000mm, weighs 0.000000oz (shipping weight 0.000001 oz), holds 8 million songs as well as every photo ever taken! Here it is pictured next to an iPod mini.

The funny part is that the auction is up to $50US (at the time of this posting) across 12 bids. It was a skit, people. If you're that eager to give up fifty bucks, I'll take it.

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