Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Greg and Sukie both pointed out this great Jon Stewart piece. Why is it that the only reasonable news on TV takes place on the Daily Show? 5:00:33 PM     Apple recently introduced their new music service. As someone who has had a bit of involvement several years ago I already have several comments ranging from positive to negative. I'll sum them up in a few days - I will note that this is the first service worthy of criticism. None of the other commercial services are at this level. I am absolutely delighted that the aac music codec is finally a core feature of iTunes and the iPod. This is good enough to build a music archive with. For ripping your own music I recommend 160kbps and would claim you could probably get a job as a sound engineer if you can tell the difference. I would not build a library with 256kbps mp3 or Ogg Vorbis..., so you can tell that I am a real fan. Get the new iTunes 4 -- the Rendezvous support is fantastic! The new iPod is approximately swish. 12:15:51 AM     Forgive me for this, but it is terribly funny ... I'm sure my chinese, japanese or korean would produce interesting results 12:04:26 AM     A very disturbing site. Cats with hats and other items of clothing. 12:04:04 AM     Speaking of disturbing .. from the old West and finger licking good to boot. (don't blame me -- I'm a vegetarian) 12:03:36 AM     Telemarketing weasels. 12:03:22 AM     Perhaps the most insane toy I've seen in years ... a $185k gas turbine powered motorcycle. I encourage the production of these machines for certain stock analysts and CEOs (all telecom CEOs should use one) 12:03:05 AM     And to end a fluffy session you can make haunted paper toys ... a real cut and paste job. 12:02:46 AM

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