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Today or yesterday or something Simplify Media released their iPhone or iPod Touch + PC and iTunes shim app that streams music from your iTunes library to your mobile device.

Totally awesome concept, and I’m sure Apple is working on it. Might not want to lock into Simplify Media’s answer, though, unless you are distinctly looking to not-win.

[1] Where “it” at the moment means “eat bagged spinach in about 20 states“.

This a public service announcement for the chosen ones that use rds.com as their only news source.

Brilliant filth.

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All filth.

Up next: MS Project. WTF’s a ‘bottle’? Feel my ignorance…

I’m about to jump on a plane, but quickly re: Top 10 big things in Tiger (10.5):

(from live coverage at tuaw.com)

#2: Time Machine - “Everyone says ‘Back it up’, but people don’t” Only 26% of people back up their data, and they mostly do it manually. Only 4% back up automatically. All of this changes with Time Machine. Automatically back up your Mac. Backs up EVERYTHING. Restores EVERYTHING. You can buy a new HD and restore on to it. You can restore all data or pick and choose. Back up to local HD or remote server. “Whole new way of backing up and restoring.” (Windows has had something like this at least since ME) Steve does a demo. A file is missing from a folder. (Finder looks the same.) Click on Time Machine in the Dock. “Time is a dimension that receeds back into your desktop”. Windows in time are stacked behind each other. Looks damn sexy. Fly through time till you see a difference. (I assume he means in what files are there and what arent) Double click files to get previews, click to restore and it re-appears in the present (TRIPPY!) Works with applications other than Finder as well. Demo’s with AddressBook. “Search the past.” Demo’s with iPhoto, but something goes wrong. Steve elegantly force-quits.

Apple hasn’t done so well on the data protection front since… ever, so this could be significant… had the demo not crashed. Trash can
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In one of the few occurrences on this season’s Rockstar: Supernova! that seem to indicate the proceedings are taking place somewhere in this reality as opposed to some sort of temporal/logical rift, host/actual rock star Dave Navarro[0] had a brief exchange with contestant Jill Gioia following tonight’s performance of Hole’s “Violet”, executed complete with kinderwhore dress, some sort of veil and, uh… there’s a link to the thing here. But beware.

I’m paraphrasing now:
> Dave: That was, ok, the vocal was good but, you know, it was a little weird seeing you in the whole Courtney Love-esque getup. That made it a little weird. That made it too much.
> Jill: No! No! This is me. I don’t know what came before or what Courtney Love did. This is me, this is Jill Gioia!
> Dave: Ok, well, if you buy the Hole album Live Through This, which that song “Violet” is from, and you look at the cover, you’ll see a woman who is dressed exactly like you are dressed now, and inside you’ll see pictures of Courtney Love the same way, but whatever.
> Courtney: I’m Jill Gioia! fin

Deadpan. No sarcasm. No need for it. F–k, man, that guy wrote “Mountain Song”, one of the greatest f—ng rock songs of all time. He knows he’s real. He knows he wrote that song, and he knows exactly how high he was when he wrote it and how many women were there doing sex acts and if blood was being drunk from a ram’s head and he SHOULD, damn it. Dave has two pierced nipples. That’s what I’m talking about. He’s become a little strange with the plastic surgery and being a reality TV host and all that, but the guy is still rock and roll. I think.

Unfortunately the exchange I describe above was not captured in the linked performance, nor does it appear to have hit YouTube yet. When it does, you’ll know.

The “Real-Meter” was quickly slapped back down to the default/running setting of “not very real” with Tommy Lee’s immediate followup: “All I want to know is: are you wearing panties?” This was to Jill Gioia, not to Navarro, to which she tried-to-purr-but-really-didn’t “… maybe I am… maybe I’m not!” Good response. Unfortunately, lacked the slightly more “rock and roll” option of lifting up her dress for the audience to settle the question. And in this case, I guess what I really mean by “rock and roll” is “capable of causing genital warts by sight”.

So… it’s like this: in a season of Rock Star where things are pretty much total non-rock (or at least not real rock) in large part due to the ill-rock-legitimacy of a man named Tommy Lee, who has burned through all his rock-karma[1], in some ways Dave Navarro is like the most most rock thing on the show when he doesn’t even have to raise his voice or be sarcastic to point out what should be obvious to everyone: Jill Gioia is a first order poseur and should be nuked from orbit, or ravaged by Tommy Lee then blown from an airlock. Perhaps the greatest poseur of all time. Or at least on that show.

I just voted for Lukas four times, which is my style, and now: the prediction.

The prediction: tomorrow, all three members of the bottom three will be ejected. Please God.

ROCKSTAR!

[0] Despite having a somewhat dull-looking Wikipedia entry… or because of?
[1] But maybe you can’t burn through it all… it’s infinite? This is tough.

New Google function that searches the full text of books, then links to where you can discuss/buy them. taking the next step to one-click ebook purchase = the Way.

I knew there was only one challenge I could throw it to test book.googleplex’s merit. Was glad to see it answered correctly within the top five…