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Separated at Birth: Borg Queen and Creepy Palm Pre Girl

By | August 5, 2009, 7:38am PDT

Summary: Now I know why those Palm Pre commercials give me that uneasy creepypants feeling when I watch them. Actress Alice Krige, left, as the Borg Queen in Star Trek First Contact. On the right, actress Tamara Hope, who plays the creepy Palm Pre girl. I love Hi-Def eye candy TV ads. But in Palm’s case, they [...]

Now I know why those Palm Pre commercials give me that uneasy creepypants feeling when I watch them. Actress Alice Krige, left, as the Borg Queen in Star Trek First Contact. On the right, actress Tamara Hope, who plays the creepy Palm Pre girl.

I love Hi-Def eye candy TV ads. But in Palm’s case, they give me the willies. And I finally figured it out, they want to turn us into a willing army of albino-esque techno robots that are constantly navel gazing at FaceBook and Twitter. And who does that remind you of? No, not iPhone users. They at least have skin tone. I’m talking about The Borg.

Click the “Read the rest of this entry link below” for more.

Yes, the Borg, the fictional Pseudo-race of mindless half-machine, half-humanoid cyborgs from Star Trek. Like social media addicts on crack, the Borg are constantly connected to their “Hive Mind” and suffer a complete emotional and mental breakdown if separated from it.

Hey, isn’t that Cloud Computing?

Why the Borg Queen and the Palm Pre Girl are similar:

Borg Queen:

Has no skin tone and creepy, beady eyes.

Is kinda sexy in a S&M way but creeps you out.

Has access to cool technology and billions of minions.

Palm Pre Girl:

Has no skin tone and creepy, beady eyes.

Is kinda sexy in an anemic way but creeps you out.

Has access to a cool smart phone and billions of viewers.

That being said, I think if given the choice of girlfriends, I’d choose the Borg Queen. Talk Back and Let me Know.

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Jason Perlow

Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet is a technologist with over two decades of experience with integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. A long-time computer enthusiast starting the age of 13 with his first Apple ][ personal computer, he began his freelance writing career starting at ZD Sm@rt Reseller in 1996 and has since authored numerous guest columns for ZDNet Enterprise and Ziff-Davis Internet. Jason was previously Senior Technology Editor for Linux Magazine, where he wrote about Open Source issues from 1999 to 2008.

In his spare time, Jason is an avid amateur chef and food writer, where his work reviewing New Jersey restaurants has appeared in The New York Times. He is also the founder of the popular food web site eGullet and blogs about restaurants and cooking at OffTheBroiler.com.

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