Random things in my head and elsewhere:
- There's still two weeks left in October, and I'm already chomping at the bit for the new month so that I can get my mitts on another 40 MP3s from eMusic. I've even organized my wishlist in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can sort my picks by artist or by track count with a few clicks of the mouse. (That's either incredibly obsessed or incredibly geeky.)
- Theme song of the day is "Seether" by Veruca Salt. I have an MP3 copy squirrelled away on DVD or CD backup somewhere, but I'm tempted to just buy the track from iTunes for some instant gratification. (Addendum: Yep, I bought it. Goodbye $0.99. Guess I'll just skip the morning coffee at Tim Horton's tomorrow.)
- Speaking of iTunes, they have a "Just For You" recommendation engine currently in beta. It recommends a bunch of albums (and songs) based on what you've bought from them in the past, and you can tell the engine "Don't Like It" or "Already Own It" in response to the album suggestions (which is a pretty sneaky/smart way of doing market research, if you ask me). But why, after I repeatedly keep telling it that I'm not interested in albums by Jay-Z, does it keep pushing different releases by him on me?
Lastly, this cartoon by toothpastefordinner is so true:
