There is a fine line between making funny parodies of Mac ads (via digg), and just making lame-ass ones. I think the difference is that you can't be a pompous ass. Oh, that, and you kind of want to get up to date on the latest Mac operating system before bashing it.

(For the record, I never was very fond of either the Switcher campaign or the Get a Mac campaign. The Switcher campaign was OK, but the Get a Mac campaign kind of makes me cringe a bit. Seriously, Apple, when are you going to actually show off the operating system instead of showing off random people?)

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Also, if you use the Terminal often, you might want to check out Visor (originally found via Infinite Loop), from the folks who make Quicksilver. It's a cool SIMBL plugin that allows you to have a Terminal window slide out from the top of your screen at the press of a command key sequence, regardless of what application you're currently running. (Terminal has to already be open in the background, but that's a non-issue as long as you just put Terminal into your login items.)

This pretty much replicates the experience of MacsBug from Mac OS 9, where you could drop into a sort of shell at any time. However, I doubt this would be useful if your GUI locks up. I'm still waiting for a solution that'll allow you to do that, so that you might be able to resolve the lockup from the command-line.