Despite being on iTunes for only a few hours, the early user reviews are quite positive, and the average score currently is 4+.

If you close your eyes, and whistle some Beatles tune, you might even have the crazy idea that this is the tech world's version of communism versus capitalism.

One thing I know with the Canon T2i (and T3i, 60D...) is that on-board camera audio is a non-starter for all but the most casual of applications. Just don't do it - fine for reference audio for syncing later, but for anything else external audio is a must.

New York Times' David Pogue had one of the best lines: "RIM has just shipped a BlackBerry product that cannot do e-mail. It must be skating season in hell."

Kurzweil "believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans."

Some of the new features I've been reading about give me pause: advanced people and shot detection, automatic audio cleanup, automatic color matching between clips (nice!), a "magnetic" timeline (for sync), background rendering, among many other technical whiz-bang goodies.

Perhaps the most revealing finding is that the interest in social networking search appears to be plateauing.

When I need to wait for anything - waiting for clips to render, importing raw footage into a project, chilling a Chardonnay - it drives me up the proverbial Facebook wall.

I popped a VHS cassette of Batman into the VCR and cranked it. "I'm Batman!"

The great "Honeycomb" or Android 3.0 turns out to be great for the geek-set, but not for mainstream America.