June 2-6 and tickets move to a lottery. Much like The Lottery, expect the winners to be stoned by their peers (whoops, spoiler alert).

I join John Gruber on this week’s episode of The Talk Show to discuss this year’s Macworld/iWorld conference, Minecraft, YouTube and that time I slammed Paul Kafasis’s hand in a car door (still feel bad about that).

On Friday at Macworld/iWorld, Paul Kafasis, Dan Moren and I sat down to talk about rumors, where Apple might be going and the hotness of maturity.

Freemium with subscription service: $10 for Office 360 Home Premium and $7 for personal, which isn’t too far off from what you’d pay for a license every few years.

I truly believe this has little to no impact on the consumer market and less impact on the enterprise market than many people believe, but it’s a smart move on Microsoft’s part. What wasn’t smart was waiting four years to do it.

Truly the best use case for the exasperated “Finally.”

Several accounts seem to indicate it’s a good implementation so if you were waiting for it and hadn’t given up, could be worthwhile.

I’m not getting it. I did my Office time.

In the current edition of The Magazine, I take a look at the moguls of Minecraft YouTube videos who are finding diamonds in recording themselves playing video games. It’s the free article, so you can read it even if you don’t have a subscription.

Episode 12 of Turning This Car Around looks at birthday parties, some where Lex dresses up as Elmo. Yes, there’s a picture.

Facebook is buying Oculus:

Acquisition positions Facebook to accelerate Oculus’ growth in gaming, communications and new social experiences

Looking forward to a lot of cool first-person VR poking games.

TUAW’s Mike Wehner has a good primer if you haven’t already gotten into Minecraft.

I started noticing that smartwatches are already affecting fashion sense, particularly in the general wrist area, so I thought I’d collect some of the examples of just how technology is changing cuff lengths.

Mary Jo Foley:

Microsoft will rebrand its cloud platform from ‘Windows Azure’ to ‘Microsoft Azure’ as part of the company’s push to emphasize its cross-platform services prowess.

Slapping “Windows” on absolutely every damn thing whether it was related to Windows or not only made those products suffer in the eyes of people who grew tired of Windows, but also devalued the Microsoft brand.