Monthly Archives: November 2006
The iPod Dock: A Pointless Existence
Apple USB iPod Cable: $17 Apple Universal iPod Dock: $35 A dock without a cable: Worthless Some things you just can’t leave out of a package. For everything else, Apple does. Since the FireWire bus shorted out on my iPod, I’ve had to borrow a USB cable to sync it. It’s slow (USB 1.1), but [...]Universal Sues Myspace: Who didn’t see this one coming?
In a battle between Satan and the Great Harlot, who do you root for? I’ve long said that Myspace is a blight upon the internet. I’ve also said that the record labels are driving us towards societal destruction. But for all the flack that Myspace takes for its chaotic and mind-bendingly vapid communities, it does [...]Microsoft and Panda Diplomacy
China for centuries has been using a tactic called Panda Diplomacy to endear themselves to whichever country they feel the need to. Basically, they loan out pandas (since Chinese law forbids actually giving away pandas to foreigners) for foreign zoos as an act of goodwill. Even the US has received pandas under this policy – [...]iTunes: “Wouldn’t This Be Cool”
Aren’t you sick of lists of text? I sure am. The iTunes dock menu, though functional enough, seems a lot taller than it should be. Do we really need 3 menu items for repeat options (off/all/one)? Tiger introduced a new menu control that to date I’ve only ever seen in the Finder: the label selector. [...]Album Covers : Best Of
It’s been said that album artwork is just as important as the music inside. That’s a rather terribly misguided statement, but album artwork is nevertheless still pretty important. After all, without it, the internet would be sorely lacking in blog posts like this discussing it. Which would be, of course, a Bad Thing™. Now that [...]Corvus Corax is my Sufjan
Simply having a catchy melody or good instrumentation seems not to be enough to establish one’s street cred in music culture anymore. As more and more people flock to Sufjan Stevens because he’s the cool thing now (or maybe sometimes even because they actually enjoy him), a lot of qualities are cited that make him [...]