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Some links for a Wednesday with AC

I now have AC again. Thank the good lord. Here's some links for today.

  • I like BookTour and all, it's just depressing to see all the great authors people in other cities get that we do not in Atlanta.
  • McSweeney's Comedy by Numbers Video. On Super Deluxe, of course.
  • We discovered last night that FoodNetwork HD has been added to our Comcast lineup. We are very happy about this. I would link to the Comcast channel lineup, but their Web site is pathetic.
  • I bought an Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset over the weekend. Here's an excellent review. My quick take is that this is the easiest to deal with headset ever, and I highly recommend it.
  • I created a tumblr log. It's a mash up of my flickr feed, twitter updates, delicious links, and last.fm feed. I'm going to play with using this as my link blog. I wonder if MarsEdit posts to tumblr blogs. Will have to look into that.
  • John from Cincinnati was cancelled. It was interesting, but clearly wasn't something that would have the broad appeal of other HBO shows. I watched the first few episodes and then lost interest.
  • Pirates vs. Ninjas Dodgeball looks, well, awesome.
Wednesday is a day of meetings link list

Having fun here today, lots going on and I am in meetings from 9:30-3:30 straight.

Tuesday Links

Had a rough couple of days as my lady friend had her appendix out yesterday. Getting my week on track.

Monday Unordered List of Links
Busy Wednesday, yet still some links
Links of the daily kind for a Monday
Monday Links of iPhone Dominance
iPhone and Ringtones and The more I think about this the madder I get.

Yeah, so I bought this iPhone thing. Generally, I love it, but I won't waste your time with a lot of observations that are available elsewhere. I will say that I moved to it from a Samsung Blackjack, and while both have their advantages and disadvantages, I will be sticking with the iPhone. There are three things that I wish the iPhone had right now that it does not; the ability to tether to my laptop for data, a disk mode, and the ability to use my music as ringtones. This post is about that last item.

So, right now, you are stuck with the default ringtones, welcome to 1999. Every phone that I have had for the last 8 or 9 years allowed me to use other ringtones. That's just dumb from a company that is largely about music these days. Then, I read this article this morning. So they are going to charge us for ringtones via the iTunes store.

Now, I am no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV, or even want to play one. This, however, seems like a real issue to me. I have paid for a lot of music via the iTunes music store. I already paid for it. I want to use it as a ringtone on a device that I also paid for. It seems, to me at least, that this is charging me twice for the same thing. I wonder aloud if I ponied up some money, if this is a lawsuit that we could win for everyone. Let me know your thoughts.