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1. Clementines, possibly the tastiest fruit ever. I mean, seriously, I cannot stop eating those things when we have them.
   
2. Cheese is often colored orange with annato, but the process became popular due to the faint orange tinge of the original cheeses produced in the Cheddar region of England - an orange brought about by high levels of beta-carotene in the cows' diet. And Cheddar is my favorite cheese.
   
3. Orange is the color of the box that Do-si-dos come in. (They're my second favorite Girl Scout cookie, but Tom didn't give me green.)
   
4. OK. No more food, I'm getting hungry. How about this: Orange has no English words that rhyme with it. "Door-hinge" does not count.
   
5. Argos is a sort of reddish orange. (Technically, "red fawn")
   
6. Oh, man. I know I said no more food but: orange sherbet. I'm glad its cold enough that I'm not tempted to go get some.
   
7. Street cones. This is a short-term, one-time thing because I am going to hate them in a about a month, but this year seeing the safety cones means that snowmageddon is over and spring is finally here.
   
8. Kimagure Orange Road. I remember watching ancient VHS tapes of this show, fansubbed and copied down for generations.
   
9. Ubuntu is (for now) my Linux distro of choice. It's got an orange thing going on.
   
10. The Orange Box contained one of the greatest video games of all time: Portal.
    
    
11. SPECIAL BONUS ITEM: The cover of my battered copy of Cyrano de Bergerac. I'm not sure how long it took me to realize that the giant orange triangle and curvy black thing wasn't just some kind of abstract pattern.
    

So I read the Slashdot response to the recent iPhone OS announcements and I think I learned a lot:
* It's not real multitasking, Apple sucks.
* Android already does it this way. Apple sucks.
* My android is better than a 2 year old iPhone. Apple sucks.
* OMFG APPLE IS GOING TO PUT ADS IN EVERYTHING!!! Apple
sucks.
* Android already does ads this way. Apple sucks.
* I am a stupid brainwashed emo hipster douchebag sheep fan boy because I like my iPhone and I clearly can't handle a "real" phone. Apple sucks.
* Apple users are "pretentious". Apple sucks.
* The app store contains only fart apps and tower defense games. Apple sucks.
* iPhone 2g & 3g won't get multitasking. Apple sucks.
* Apple are Nazis (paging Mr. Godwin...) Apple
sucks.

I feel...oddly refreshed, honestly. It's that wonderful moment when you finally realize someone is completely full of shit and you can safely stop paying attention to them.

I think this is a first...all residents of Chez Nuncheon are in the same room. M and I at our computers, Argos sacked out on the doggy bed, Charlotte on the afghan at my feet, Annie on the back of M's chair, and Bit creeping warily forward to investigate the giant monster.