Something in the air this week has the Macalope thinking about the classics. He’s wondering if Steve Ballmer’s latest executive shuffle makes him a brilliant leader or if this purge just means Microsoft’s turned into the island in . The Macalope then wonders who are these Lennie Smalls having antenna problems with their iPhone 4s. One thing’s for sure, though: these ham-fisted giants are not the target market for the rumored iPhone nano.

From HP to Google to Egypt, executive movement is all the rage these days. Microsoft doesn’t want to be left out of the fun, so it’s doing what it does best: .

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was said on Monday to be overhauling the company’s executive structure in a bid to better compete against Apple and Google.

It’s become a cliché to say a company’s reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, but when you actually Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet run by while being chased by an angry man with a gun and you start to wonder why you rented an ultimately cheesy remake of Romeo and Juliet, well, then you know this analogy’s gone off the rails.