Most of the Apple-related noise the past two weeks has been about the iPhone 3GS and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant. What about the next great thing? Mac360‘s Bambi Brannan:

It may not be called a Mac, but the next MacBook, the digital device destined to sit between iPhone/iPod and Mac notebooks, will be a true handheld Mac. Think 10 inches of screen with a rim, thin, wireless, on screen keyboard, and here it comes—this new MacBook will run Mac OS X and iPhone OS X, so it can run Mac apps and utilities and iPhone/iPod touch apps, utilities, games.

Why not? I’d pay $799 for one.

Got a beef with City Hall? Specifically, Boston’s City Hall? Grab your iPhone. There might be an app for that. Soon. Michael Levenson in The Boston Globe:

City officials will soon debut Boston’s first official iPhone application, which will allow residents to snap photos of neighborhood nuisances - nasty potholes, graffiti-stained walls, blown street lights - and e-mail them to City Hall to be fixed.

The bureaucratic black hole goes digital.

What type of Twitter user are you? Zack Whittaker lumps Twitter users into 5 categories. I’m somewhere around #4. For a more studious perspective of Twitter users, Ryan Kelly of PearAnalytics says:

A while back we embarked on a study that evolved after a having a debate in the office as to how people are using and consuming Twitter. Some felt it was their source of news and articles, others felt it was just a bunch of self-promotion with very few folks actually paying attention. But mostly, many people still perceive Twitter as just mindless babble of people telling you what they are doing minute-by-minute; as if you care they are eating a sandwich at the moment.

If Twitter is mindless babble, what is Facebook?

I don’t understand why this news event wasn’t covered on Fox News. What Sarah Palin hath wrought:

Speaking unto an audience of anti-immigration advocates, global-warming deniers, and members of the Tea Party Nation, former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gave forth utterances Monday that reportedly opened the sixth seal of the Book of the Apocalypse.

And:

“Small town folks—the folks who grow our food, run our small businesses, and teach our kids—are getting pretty riled up by President Obama’s big socialist ideas,” Palin spoke as the stage upon which she stood was rent apart by an unseen hand, opening as unto a great chasm, whose gaping void she narrowly escaped by clinging to the podium.

And finally:

Chaos and disorder then spread across hill and valley to every corner of the earth, eyewitnesses reported, and as the minions of the Antichrist prepared for their millennium of world dominion, even the teeming masses of heathens could not in their hearts deny that the final phase of Armageddon was close at hand, and that you’re darn right Joe Six-Pack pays too many taxes already.

A preliminary to my upcoming Magic Mouse review. Eric M. Strauss on ABC News:

There ought to be an easier process for adding a mouse. I also wish it came with rechargeable batteries, but since it means you don’t need another charging station on your desktop, I believe Apple chose simplicity over clutter.

I’ve had my Magic Mouse for a week. Going back to Mighty Mouse feels like going back to 1995. It’s that good.