On Friday, Apple will unveil a giant cube in front of FAO Schwartz and The Consumerist will be there to liveblog it (probably).

A shrine of glass, the heavily anticipated new Mac store has been encased with as much secrecy as it has large black panels, but all will be revealed in 03 days, 01 hours, 53 minutes and 03 seconds, as of this posting. We’re told so by the Apple store cube site, hosting a countdown to the grand opening.

We may have live-blogging coverage of it if as long as the Blackberry of our embedded field reporter, Tim Nudd, editor of Adfreak, is working. We’re not promising, but we’re really really going to try.

He may win great prizes, or even a commemorative t-shirt. Stay tuned.

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