iWant

iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone.

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Je le veux

This little beast runs OS X.

A phone, an iPod, and a computer in a small, slim package... it's not really a phone, but the MacBook Nano.

And come June, I think there are two of them in this family's future.

Soundtrack to my life, courtesy of iPod

Here's a fun blog-meme I lifted from Ramblings at Midnight, who got it from The Assimilated Negro (and my Lord, how honored I am to be in her blogroll along with TAN):

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...

Here we go. I swear I played by the rules, too.

Opening Credits: "Village Ghetto Land," Stevie Wonder
Waking Up: "Daylight," Drive-By Truckers
First Day at School: "All My Whole Life," Magic Sam
Falling In Love: "Anywhere I Lay My Head," Tom Waits
Fight Song: "My Heart Skips A Beat," Buck Owens
Breaking Up: "24 Carat Black (Theme)," 24 Carat Black
Prom: "Porcelain," Moby
Life: "My Native Home," Nashville Bluegrass Band
Mental Breakdown: "In The Rain," The Dramatics
Driving: "Death," Richard Pryor (okay, so I have some spoken word stuff on the iPod)
Flashback: "Intermission," Big Punisher
Wedding: "Careless Love," Big Joe Turner
Birth of Child: "Trane's Blues," Miles Davis
Final Battle: "Driving," Everything But The Girl
Death Scene: "Poinciana," Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette/Keith Jarrett
Funeral Song: "Won't Nobody Listen," Black Haze Express
End Credit: "The Last of the Arkansas Greyhounds," Leo Kottke

Who else wants to play?

How random is the iPod's "Shuffle" feature?

My first iPod loved Steely Dan. So do I. But not as much as my iPod did. By 2003, among the 3,000 or so songs in my iTunes library, I had about 50 Steely Dan tracks. Yet every time I shuffled my music collection "randomly" to mix the tunes, it seemed that the Dan was weirdly over-represented. Only two or three songs after Rikki Don't Lose That Number, I'd hear Kid Charlemagne. Then, 20 minutes later, there would be Pretzel Logic. Where was the logic in this? I didn't keep track of every song that played every time I shuffled my tunes, but after a while I would keep a sharp ear out for what I came to call the LTBSD (Length of Time Before Steely Dan) Factor. The LTBSD Factor was always perplexingly short.

Oh No, Not Steely Dan Again (Steven Levy, The Guardian, October 7, 2006)

I have quite a lot of Steely Dan on my 8G iPod Nano, too, but *my* iPod's favorite artist seems to be Louis Armstrong, so I've got the MTBS (Mean Time Between Satchmo) effect, even though the number of Armstrong tracks is not quite as high as some other artists (I've got complete Charlie Parker and Bud Powell box sets on there, for cryin' out loud.)