4/02/2008

MacBook Air gets pwned!

Remember the commercial announcing the brand-new MacBook Air?



(The music playing is "New Soul" by Yael Naïm.)

Check out this parody:



Pwned!

Wikipedia:

Etymology

The word "pwn" may have arisen and spread as a common typo of the word "own," since the 'p' and 'o' keys are adjacent on a standard English keyboard. [1][2] Alternatively, the word pwnage may have been created as a portmanteau of the words "pure" and "ownage," "perfect" and "ownage," or "powerful" and "ownage." Similarly, "pwn" may have derived from "powerfully owned," such as "you just got powerfully owned!" (shortened to "you just got pwned!").

Pronunciation

Given the recent development of the word and its primary use in written form only, there is no single accepted pronunciation of pwn. However, "own", "pawn", "poon" and "pone" are frequently used, and "pwen" is also considered an acceptable pronunciation.[3]

The MacBook Air, why the hell not?



And a glimpse on prehistoric times:




Next year, I bet we'll get something even thinner: the MacBook Helium:

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