This post comes to you in two parts!

PART I:

One Hundred Geeks You Should Be Following On Twitter.

Includes the usual suspects (Stephen Fry, Wil Wheaton, Greg Grunberg, Neil Gaiman, Steve Wozniak, Cory Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton, Adam Savage), but also lists a bunch of cartoonists (both print and web), comic-book writers/artists, radio hosts, astronauts (tweets from space, starting today!), policy wonks, musicians, entertainment journos, coders, etc. etc. ad infinitum.

Good times!

PART II

Arkansas GOP Senate Candidate Apologizes For Calling Schumer "That Jew"

Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as "that Jew" at a county Republican meeting last week.

"I don't use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my mouth."

Ah yes, be sure to get your "Obama BAD!" talking point into your non-apology.

He must not have used a teleprompter when non-apologizing, either, as he went on to say that he admires Jesus, who was a Jew. He's not anti-Semitic--some of his best Saviors are Jewish!

(Oh, he also likes that Joe Lieberman fella.)

Good times!

So - new laptop comparison. Opinions?

I need to buy a new Mac laptop., but I am going back and forth between the white casing on the right, to the 2.0 aluminum casing on the left. Part of my dithering is due to the $300 price difference, and part of it is due to not knowing that I need DDR3 memory over DDR2 memory, or 160GB storage vs. 120GB storage. (My laptop is never my main computer; I have a dual 2 GHz G5 tower at home that serves that purpose, with over 1,650 GB storage [1 TB drive, 1 300 drive, 1 200 drive, 1 150 drive].)

I mostly used my old laptop for chatting, surfing, viewing youtube and tv shows, and schoolwork. I don't have heavy-duty software on my laptop--no Final Cut, no AutoCAD, not even photoshop (though photoshop may be an option in the future).

I'm soliciting opinions: aluminum unibody, or white polycarbonate shell? Cheaper, or more 40GB more storage? Anyone have any experience with either/both of these laptops? Please keep in mind that this laptop will be doing a lot of traveling, from home to school to coffee shops to bookstores to whichever high school at which I'll be doing my 100 observation hours in the fall, and who knows where else.

Many thanks for any advice you can give me!