Brad Barrish

I'm SO getting the Coldplay edition.

Just Like the U2 iPod, except the device is exponentially more boring and pretentious.

I'm not so sure about this. I'm a huge fan of Brian May, but his web site is awful!

I'm gonna be a music mogol!

I'll bet you thought you were going to see my picks for this year, didn't ya? Not quite done with that. This made me laugh though.

We were eating lunch in Kansas City on Thursday and I'm not quite sure how the subject came up, but my mum asked me if dad should get a Mac. His Dell has been having a lot of problems with viruses, being super slow and he basically hasn't been able to use it much. "Of course he should," I replied. I told her about the iMacs and she pretty much decided to buy one for him. We walked down the street to the new Apple Store and after some discussion, she bought him a new 17" iMac, which of course I set up when we got home. His favorite feature thus far: the iTunes visualizer. He sat in front of his iMac for a good 20 minutes just staring at that thing. He came out of the room and declared it was, "better than dope."

When Rumsfeld was asked about long deployments and a lack of armored vehicles and other equipment by a soldier in Kuwait today, this was his response:

"You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have."

That's a pretty shitty answer, wouldn't you say? What a dick. Good for the troops for speaking up and showing a little hostility.

Matt did an awesome job Interviewing Tivo's Director of User Exeprience, Margret Schmidt. Ever since I got my first TiVo, I have been hooked. Part of the loveliness of TiVo is the user interface, which is king. Everything is so easy, my mom could probably figure it out. It was cool to find out some behind-the-scenes stuff.

My top lists for the year are nearly complete. The trouble with compiling this late  (?!) in December is that I am subjected to quite a few lists that just make me want to forget the whole thing. The rub has one such list. As a point of clarification, I don't really agree with much on the list, but I do like the writing and some of it is pretty funny.

There is nothing quite as annoying and completely rude as when someone sends out emails devoid of proper capitalization, punctuation and at worst of all, proper English. I've found that top executives are the worst. Don't even get me started on people with Blackberrys. The good people at c|net (via The NY TImes) have a good write-up about this very thing. The examples are humorous and hideous.

O'Reilly has an interesting editorial in The Register about a possible partnership of some kind between IBM and Apple. Apple of IBM's eye? | The Register.