These articles penned by the late Rodney O. Lain are from websites that no longer exist. We’ve fixed a few typos but essentially left these articles as they were originally published.
Rodney’s content remains online here at Low End Mac (Things Macintosh), on Applelinks (Macintosh Spirit), The Mac Observer (Rodney’s Soapbox and iBrotha), and AppleLust (Amen Corner). [In cases where websites such as Applelinks and AppleLust no longer exist, links are to the Internet Archive.]
Retrospectives
- In Memory of Rodney O. Lain, Bryan Chaffin, The Mac Observer
- Rodney O. Lain, Tim Robertson, MyMac
- For Rodney, Beth Lock, MyMac
- Remembering Rodney, John Martellaro, MyMac
- Good Night, Rodney, Del Miller, Applelinks
- Forum, The Mac Observer
- Remembering Rodney, Charles W. Moore, Applelinks
- Rodney O. Lain, John C. Welch, WorkingMac.com
- Mac Evangelist Rodney O. Lain Dies, Julio Ojeda-Zapata, TwinCities.com
- Magnum Mysterium, John H. Farr, Grack, Applelinks
- Popular Mac Columnist Mourned, Leander Kahney, Wired
- A Friend Worth Remembering, Joey Cooper, MacMilitia
The following articles are no longer available at their original locations:
Articles First Published on The iMac.com
- Newsweek Gets a Clue: PCs Are Hard to Use, 1999.02.17
- ‘Vas You Dere?’: Giving CompUSA Benefit of the Doubt (Part I), 1999.04.01
- How Apple-Rumor Sites Hurt Macintosh Sales, 1999.04.13
- A Stray Thought: Are All Mac Users Left-wing Liberals?, 1999.04.21
- The Dirty Little Secret About Macs: They’re Hard to Use, 1999.05.27
- CompUSA Starts Program to Train All Sales Reps about Apple, Macs!!!, 1999.05.28
- Why Mac Users Should Read PC World Magazine (with Apologies to MacToday Magazine), 1999.06.23
- Confessions of a Mac Bigot: a Meditation on ‘The Matrix’, 1999.07.06
- ‘Is CompUSA Going Out of Business?’ or ‘Can/will CompUSA Reinvent Itself?’, 1999.08.26
- ‘Fan inside’: Gauntlet Thrown Down to Create Convective-cooled PCs, 1999.10.06
- Always a Bridesmaid, but Never a Bride: Hands on with iMac DV SE, 1999.10.10
- Mac Advocates and Misplaced Zeal, 1999.10.21
- Right Turn, Left Turn: In Defense of the ‘Hockey-puck’ Mouse, 1999.11.04
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Mac OS Rumors, 1999.11.29
- Expo Notebook #2: My Short Walk with Steve Wozniak, 2000.01.12
- On OS X: ‘Who Cares About Cost? I Want It!’, 2000.01.15
- iWeekend: A Funny Thing Happened to Me at CompUSA, 2000.01.16
- I Just Want My AirPort to Work, Dammit!, 2000.01.17
- What Ever Happened to Don Crabb?, 2000.01.20
- AirPort 1.1: Maybe It’ll Work This Time, 2000.02.02
- iWeekend: (Malcolm) OS X T-shirts and Mistaken ID, 2000.02.21
- Angry Mac Man: Steve Jobs Should Run for Governor, 2000.02.24
Articles First Published on MacSimple
- Classic Mac Writings – Coming to a Browser Near You, 1999.10.28
- Maybe Best Buy Can Get It Right This Time…, 1999.11.16
- Angry Mac Man: Macintosh Is the ‘Nigger’ of the Computer Industry, 1999.11.18
- The Iconoclast: If You Agree With Everything I Write, Then You’re Not Thinking, 1999.11.24
- The Iconoclast: Vaporware Alert! Microsoft Copycats iMovie, Rips Off QuickTime Look and Feel, 1999.12.09
- Why Steve Jobs Doesn’t Do Commercials, 1999.12.18
The iBrotha Archive
These articles were posted on Rodney’s own website, iBrotha.com.
- Apple’s Stolen Mojo: A Hard-boiled Caper, undated
- Mission Statement, undated
- Why I Am a Christian Iconoclast, undated
- I Can Relate to Jesus – and He Relates to Me, undated
- It’s Not Steve Jobs, But He’ll Do, 2001. Rodney meets Apple Retail VP Ron Johnson at the local McDonald’s
- Intellectual Masturbation on Writing Well, 2001.08.24
Mac Addict
Interiews
- MacDaily Interviews Rodney O. Lain, 1999.10.27
- Mac Addict Interviews Rodney O. Lain, 2000.03.29
Articles First Published on Opinion and The Painful Truth
These articles predate Rodney’s involvement with the Mac Web and were written while he was involved with the Macon, GA, Worldwide Church of God congregation and continue through his disfellowshipping and include comments from friends after his suicide. They show Rodney’s great passion for racial reconciliation and the dangers of spiritual abuse.
- Racial Reconciliation and Cultural Sensitivity, 1996.01
- Racial Conditioning: Racial/Human Reconciliation Day in Houston, Texas, 1996.01.13
- Rodney Lain Joins WCG’s Most Wanted, 1997.06.13
- A UCG Member Speaks Out on Rodney Lain, Michael Brandenburg, 1997.07.06
- Surviving Cult Abuse, 1998.03.11
- Rodney Lain and Mark Flynn, William Ferguson and Mark Tabladillo, 2002.06.19
Academic Works
- Signifyin(g) as a Rhetorical Device In Selected Writings of the Harlem Renaissance, Rodney’s MA thesis
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