Cool ad from Apple on “…the back page of the Sunday NYT Magazine, which had an ASCII-art sillhouette of Beck’s head made up of the names of all the songs on Beck’s iPod, with some marketing copy explaining that Beck has a ginormous library of MP3s from which he loads 5GB at random onto his iPod every day. Then I opened up Kottke.org and there was a link to a PDF of the ad (minus the marketing copy), which is indeed cool.” The PDF file is here, the quoted text is courtesy of Boing Boing.
Tech
Tech-focused ramblings. Computers, blogs, and whatever else fits.
Better days
Some good news from NewsWeek, after the past couple years or so of dot-com ex- and im-plosions: according to their cover story this week, Silicon Valley is alive and well, and there are brighter days ahead.
Lots of music links
I need to remember to come back to this MeFi thread — lots of links to online remix sources and radio stations.
Soundbugs look cool
Yay for new toys! I may need to pick up at least one of these little gadgets — Soundbug turns flat surface into speakers. More information can be found on the Terfenol company website.
iMacs in the movies
Most of the computers in movies for several years have been Macintoshes, maybe because the Mac is the only computer that doesn’t look like every other computer and therefore benefits from product placement. But this is the first movie in which an entire iMac commercial runs on TV in the background of a shot.
How’s that for random trivia? Thanks to Roger Ebert’s review of Showtime for this little tidbit.
PC conspiracies
The Apple community has said this off and on for years, but now Business Week is asking — could IT professionals be keeping their networks PC-based to keep their jobs? Now here’s a conspriacy theory that I can sign up for.
Digital rights
Finally, movement has been started to help preserve consumer’s rights regarding digital media: DigitalConsumer. More information and background can be found in a column from Walter Mossberg.
Apple vs. the Penguin
Unix Under the Desktop: A penguin’s eye look at Apple’s OS X, from Linux Journal.
Something for Casey
Something for Casey — how to hack a half-price Apple Airport base station.
I got into As The Apple Turns!
Hey — I’m famous! Or…something like that. See, I stumbled across a link earlier today that I thought might be of interest to my favorite Apple-flavored soap opera, As the Apple Turns — and they used it for one of their stories today! Too cool…check it out: Aqua in the candy dish!