Step right up, Craig Jones, winner of last week's caption competition. Making fun of other people is funny. Ish.

The Gates/Jobs interview is just getting started in San Diego, and the official D5 blog has live coverage here. The video clip below is what they kicked off with.

Does everyone find this rather exciting or is it just me? I am a bit disappointed they didn't open with that "Hi, I'm a Mac" / "And I'm a PC" gag, though, so here's an embarrasing quote from each of them instead:

"To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different, it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard."--Microsoft founder Bill Gates, 1984

"If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."--Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 1996

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The two most important people in the world (well, we think so) are to have a public discussion for the first time ever next week.

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are scheduled to appear together at The Wall Street Journal's D5 conference next Wednesday 30 May, in San Diego.

We like to think it'll start like this: "Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC."

The 75-minute joint interview will be the first time the two industry icons have ever had a public conversation. They do seem to enjoy each other's company in private, however. The following pictures, taken at the D3 Conference in 2005, show them having a jolly old time.

Whatever could the chair of Microsoft and the chief executive of Apple be talking about? Post your captions in the comments -- the best will win a spiffing prize from Belkin.

Post your captions in the comments before Steve and Bill's big interview on 30 May, and be in to win a Belkin SportCommand for iPod worth $79.

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The BBC reports [emphasis added]:

A 20-year-old student's car was wrecked by a train after she followed her sat nav system onto a railway track.

"I put my complete trust in the sat nav and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she said.

"I came to this crossing at Ffynongain and there was like a metal gate, which looked like just a normal farmers' gate with a red circle on it.

"I thought it was a dead end at first and then there was a little sign saying, if the light is green, open the gates and drive through."

"So I opened the gate, drove forward, closed the gate behind me and then went to go and open the gate in front of me.

"Then I heard this train and I noticed train tracks. It was only then that I did realise I was on a train crossing.

"I could feel the air just pass me and then my car just did a 360 degree turn on the tracks and was knocked to the other side."

She said her initial thought when she heard the horn had been to get into her car and move it.

"It was so quick that if I had done that, I would have been in the car when it was hit," she said.

Ms Ceely said she had been "really lucky".

Really lucky, or unbelievably stupid, whaddya reckon?

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Our first issue of OtterWorld is looking good!

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Microsoft announced its latest mobile device, the Windows Mobile oPhone, at web design conference Mix last week.

Microsoft says:

"A breakthrough new technology device to compete with Apple's iPhone, the oPhone is a fold out variable device with three different usable surfaces and a circular display."

"The oPhone, in standard mode, is a thin, curvy device topped by a round screen and with the phone keypad surface below. Two other surfaces, the same size and shape as the keypad, can be flipped out. One has a full keyboard, the other a music player control with a wheel control and a few buttons. Flip out all three surfaces, and you have a device shaped like a three winged boomerang, and Microsoft claims it is aerodynamic enough to work exactly like that."

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Fifteen Han Solo quotes you need to use in regular conversation? Handy! Witty! The comments underneath, however, are genius:

"I used line 3 on some Mormons, without qualifying it as a Star Wars quote, who came to my door once, and after they went through their shtick, one Mormon waved and said, 'Later, Han.' Needless to say, I converted."

I thought this video was pretty clever, too:

It's a guy who catches sunglasses with his face! Awesome! The theories explaining it, however, are awesome with an O:

"He gotta have sumttin behind his ears ta magnetise them glasses."

"Credit should be given to the guy who throws the glasses, not the catcher. the catcher's just standing still..."

"dammit they pull the wire then reverse the footage.think about it.e.g.car drives backwards.hes wearing glasses with wire on.when the car and man on pavement are level,he pulls the wire.now do it backwards in your mind."

Now do it backwards in your mind. It's actually a viral ad for Ray-bans. I think they've got their new tag-line right there.

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If international time zones do your head in, the World Sunlight Map is a nicely graphic way to figure out if it's too late to phone grandma in Ole Blighty. It's a "real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight, darkness and cloud cover based on current weather satellite data". And it looks cool, too.

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