On WTTW, Chicago’s PBS station, the Feb. 21 “Chicago Tonight” featured a 30-minute interview with Ira Glass and his staff. Glass, who earlier in his career was a reporter for NPR’s “All Things Considered” now hosts a popular, nationally-syndicated, Peabody Award-winning NPR radio show “This American Life.”
“While Ira is already well known for his creativity, one of the shots of him working with his production staff in his WBEZ-Chicago studio on Navy Pier reinforced his creative bent as it showed Ira working at what was clearly a beige G3 Mac,” said Rich Straka.
Meanwhile, visit AARP’s website and you’ll see that smack in the middle of their home page is a nice write up on the iMac DV Special Edition. (Thanks to Daniel Leighton for sending his item our way.)
Finally, we give you two Mac print sightings. In a recent Time magazine color cartoon about Shawn Fanning and Napster saga, it had computers falling behind him. One was a flaming iMac, and some of the beige ones look like desktop G3’s, points out William Bonde.
Anne Bingham spotted an iMac in the Ethan Allen “Essentials Sale 2001″magazine (page 31).
(If you’ve sent us an item for our Famous People column, please be patient. It will appear, but we’ve been swamped with entries. If you know of a famous person using the Mac, send it to Yours Truly at dsellers@maccentral.com. If you want credit for your “Mac spotting,” be sure to include your full name.)