Friday, July 20, 2007

Habemus I-Papam

A series of blog entries and conversations among friends from Church alerted the author to a story regarding Pope Benedict XVI's new technological acquisition: a 2-gigabyte ipod nano.

Staff at Vatican Radio presented the gift to the Pontiff to celebrate the radio's 70th Anniversary, upon the receipt of which the Pope was noted to have remarked that computor technology was now the future. The pontifical approval of Apple merchandise has stimulated the production of hilarious spoof commercials promoting the the concept of the "Ipope", like this:



This:




And to top it all off, a video commercial produced by Jay Leno, and featured on NBC television. To view it, copy and paste the link below, and be sure to turn up the audio for the complete i-papal experience. It is well worth the effort.

http://ipope1.ytmnd.com/

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