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Steve Jobs, clean-shaven and wearing a tie. What the hell?!

Over at Global Nerdy, the tech news blog that my buddy George and I write, here are the latest stories:

• Blog Juice Calculator: A tool for finding out how much influence and credibility your blog has. The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century has a 6.6 rating, putting it just behind the New York City gossip blog Gawker.
• Keyword Assistant for iPhoto: At last, iPhoto gets what Flickr users have been taking for granted.
• Well, Someone’s Gotta Move Those Bits: Thoughts on Internap’s purchase of Vitalstream and moving those bits through the Great Series of Tubes.
• (RED)pod: Oprah and Bono push the latest iPod, a portion of whose sales will go to the Global Fund, a fund to help fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa. How come Microsoft didn’t come up with this idea, given all the money Chairman Gates has earmarked to such causes?
• Two Great Tastes That Taste Great (via Bluetooth): In which we point to the BlueEye, a gadget that a connects Bluetooth receiver, control pad, headphones and (as a special touch) FM radio to any of the 5 most recent iPod models, allowing you to make, receive and ignore phone calls from your iPod.
• Apple’s iWork to Lasso Spreadsheets: Apple’s own “Office” suite, iWork, edges closer to Microsoft’s turf now that it’s including an app code-named Lasso, a spreadsheet application.
• Compare Rental Rates in Your ‘Hood with Rentometer: A great Google Maps mashup that lets you see what rental rates in your neighbourhood are.
• Flash Drive-Equipped Laptops Appear in Japan: The move away from hard drives towards solid-state flash drives is starting…in Japan only, at least for the moment.
• Back to the Future: Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP 3: The features that Steve Jobs demonstrates in the video may be common today, but in 1992, they must’ve looked like alien technology. Make sure you set aside a lunch break to catch this NeXTSTEP demo video.