The funny thing is that it’s actually more complicated than that.

Just for the fun of it, I made an application which automatically publishes a user’s bit.ly-shortened URLs on Facebook. If you’re the type of person who likes to share a lot of links, this can be a bit of a time saver.

Bit.ly Auto-Share

Warning: Don’t use it if you have the bit.ly bookmarklet installed and you look at a lot of porn. I’m still waiting to hear about someone accidentally embarrassing themselves.

There’s a big hubub on technology news sites over Valve’s apparent pre-announcement of Steam for OS X. The sites are quick to point out that Valve hasn’t actually said what they’ll be announcing (if anything). Looking at the faux-Apple ads, however, it’s easy to claim otherwise. The first one by itself confirms that Steam is being ported to OS X it via an amusing short story.

Introducing Steam. [For the] the rest of us.

In the olden days, people had to go to stores to buy games. It was awful. Not many people knew how. And not many people wanted to learn. Seminars. Wallet manuals. Walking classes. Remembering to carry money. It was so complicated you’d have to be a store expert to understand it all.

But then, on a bright day in Bellevue, Seattle, the people who didn’t go to stores got together with the people who make things for money to figure out a solution.

After a half hour nobody had come up with any ideas, and tempers were running high.

Then somebody had an idea: they should get into a fight.

Later, at the hospital, a doctor said, “You guys should really invent something that lets you buy games without leaving the house” Everybody told him he should shut up if he didn’t want a fat lip “Man, I don’t want a fat lip,” the doctor thought, so he didn’t say anything more about it.

A couple of days later, though, everybody agreed that mouthy doctor might have been onto something, and so they built a thing that let them buy games on their computers without leaving the house.

“There’s different types of computers, though,” said one guy. “We’ll figure that out later,” said another guy.

And, years later, they did.

That last line sounds like a confirmation to me. What isn’t clear is wether or not Source (and any of the games built on it) will be ported as well.