In the immortal words of a past colleague, “We’re all gonna die.”

This guy had a kitten on a leash at South Station. It was cute, yet very, very weird. Not to mention the guy himself…

Rhapsody provides a subscription music service so you can listen to anything whenever you want and wherever you are, automatic playlists based on music you like, and “channels” that provide a continuous supply of new music either based on your own preferences or by genre. Your library is synchronized across all computers that you use.

It’s also a music player and a music store, but here lie its main weaknesses and it really doesn’t offer any advantages over iTunes (with the exception of $0.99 DRM-free tracks). In fact, as a music player it’s quite bad. All the problems I have with Rhapsody come from its music player functionality.

iTunes, on the other hand, is a pretty good (though bloated) music player, has a good music store, and is integrated with iPods and iPhones. Rhapsody doesn’t work with Apple mp3 players because of Apple’s restrictions, so you have to buy something other than what is arguably the best mp3 player on the market.

The only place Rhapsody and iTunes overlap is in the music player and music store functionality. Since Apple does a better job with these two components, it would be ideal to somehow merge Rhapsody into iTunes. Imagine having your current library of purchased music combined with the unlimited library of Rhapsody. Imagine your “Genius” playlist being populated with songs you can listen to right away instead of having to buy them first. Imagine loading up your iPod with a Rhapsody channel of music you’ll probably like but haven’t heard yet. Imagine being able to listen to your playlists from any computer where you log in. It would really be a perfect music experience.

Too bad that Apple and Real Networks will never go for it.

Fall started, and here’s the proof.

A “blog” is a web publication, not an article. An article is called a “post.” Next week: Why HTML is not “code.”

– Jeffrey Zeldman

It also bugs me when people write “BLOG” in all caps, as though it is an acronym. It’s not. It’s just short for “weblog”.

I just got a small Wacom Bamboo tablet for myself and have been having a blast with it!

I’ll probably write more about it later. Now, back to drawing!

Question: My cat stopped breathing. is he sleeping?

Answers:

Usually it means it might be dead…..

Are you for real? do you stop breathing when you sleep? Try to wake him otherwise bury him.

OMG R U SERIOUS? Whether or not you are just take your cat to the vet and relinquish ownership. Do not adopt any more animals. For their sake. Please

How long that has been happening? I hope not very long.

And probably best of all:

You need to introduce him to your fish who was floating (sleeping) at the top of the tank earlier. But don’t flush him. It will clog your toilet =/

And make your next pet a rock.

For me, the real goal of the survey of economists was to give voters an appetite for useful and unbiased information, so you demand it in the future. I consider all of the criticisms of this survey to be steps in the right direction. That’s where the conversation should be, and not so much about lipstick and pigs. If your reaction to the survey was “That’s not enough information,” I call that progress. Demand more.

– Scott Adams