PC tries an op-ed in his battle against Mac

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Apple’s done quite a few of these Flash-based PC and Mac ads, but the latest one, designed to run on news sites (and currently live on NYTimes.com), is especially well rendered, as PC drags a news-style text box onscreen to literally put himself in the story. John Hodgman makes some truly funny faces, while Justin Long, scowling down from above, at one point looks like a monkey. When I saw this clip, my immediate reaction was:
Here’s the first Mac/PC ad I’ve seen since Microsoft debuted its Seinfeld-Gates

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