What a riot

Obtuse reviews and RIM’s financial troubles in this week’s Macworld column.

This week’s Macworld column looks at obtuse reviews and RIM’s financial troubles.

For you Insiders, we’ve started tagging the new content in the Saturday column with the alliterativeriffic “Saturday Special” heading. We’ll also try to put it at the top unless it’s a logical follow-up to another piece.

Short answer: no.

Some old claim chowder

“The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, into something that is art,” Shuttleworth said to applause from the audience. “Can we not only emulate, but can we blow right past Apple?”

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, maker of Ubuntu, 7/22/2008