Imagine you're a professional news anchor. A good part of your occupation centers on your physical appearance while on the air. Now,  while walking down the street with your brand new MacBook Air, you suddenly trip in a pothole.

You're on your way down. Your choices: drop your new toy and protect yourself, or throw your well being to the wind and take a facefull of New York sidewalk while saving your new Mac.

If you chose saving yourself, then you're obviously not half the Mac fan that Charlie Rose is. The venerable talk show host went mug-first into the pavement and sustained a black eye in order to save his new Mac from a hard landing.

Bravo, Charlie. Fanboys everywhere salute you.

19 Mar 2008