I never knew

Good coverage of yesterday’s Apple announcements and some potential good news;

Apple hopes to offer this service internationally within a couple months. We’ll see how that shakes out.

Hope hope hope.

Kind of puts things in perspective doesnt it?

Aaaaaaaaarrrrghhhh
As expected Apple announced today a new music service

where you can buy songs from the 5 major labels for 99c each. Seems like a great service, one that I was waiting for but…. it’s only in the US!!! Why?!?

And what’s with presenting a new iPod and all you have is a cheap 3D rendering to show? You dont even have one lousy unit to take pictures of? Seems to be the real thing here and here.

Update: Another pretty crappy thread on Metafilter but I found the pearl I was looking for, very well said Mo.

Update 2: I installed iTunes 4 as soon as I came home and the Music Store is excellent! Even with what must be pretty high traffic for the first day it’s quick, looks good, there’s videos, the previews start playing instantaneously.

Great service so far except I never realized that so much of the music I listen to isnt from the 5 big labels. My music tastes arent all that original and yet there’s probably around 40% of what I have in iTunes right now that I couldnt buy online with the Store, kind of surprising and makes me a bit less pissed that it’s not available here.

Update 3 (and hopefully last): The new ads are hilarious.

Various geeks are using the money they made with the internet boom to try and reform the space industry. Using information age technologies they hope to bring what the old space truck never really accomplished; cheap flights to space with reusable rockets or space planes. Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com), John Carmak (Quake and Doom) and Elon Musk (Paypal) are already working on it.

New “feature” for this site, I often find links that I just want to mention, the type of thing that I would email to friends but that I want to keep a trace of, this new page is the compilation of those links, split in 4 categories.

Design is mostly sites with nice designs that I want to be able to find again but instead of just bookmarking I’m sharing, aint that nice!

Books might have some links to specific books but so far it’s a list of sites about books.

f.f.f. stands for found for friends and altought there arent that many items so far, it’s there to list sites that are interesting to friends but that I mostly dont know anything about so I cant really blog about it.

World started out as a world news thing, the first few were about the war but I havent done much posting in a while. It might expand to include or even completely switch to travel instead.

I’ve set up an RSS feed for each category and a complete one with everything.

Last thing, on my iBook the colors look fine, at work it was very dark but my screen is set that way. If it’s unpleasantly dark on your screen please say so in the comments or email me.

Paul en Finlande

Empire (6.0)

Some people live the most fascinating lives, Jacob Holdt is one of those people.

Arriving in America with only $40 for a short visit, a young Dane, Jacob Holdt ended up staying over five years, hitchhiking more than 100,000 miles throughout the USA.

He sold blood plasma twice weekly to be able to buy film. He lived in more than 400 homes – from the poorest migrant workers to America’s wealthiest families such as the Rockefellers. They not only gave him a hospitality and warmth, but their continuing friendship to this day.

He joined the Indian rebellion in Wounded Knee, followed criminals in the ghettos during muggings, sneaked inside to work in Southern slave camps and infiltrated secret Ku Klux Klan meetings as well as Republican presidential campaign headquarters.

So far I havent read a whole lot of his site but I have looked at quite a few pictures and some of them are very impressive, I especially like his Bolivia and Nepal series. Very similar and as touching as one of my favorites, Steve McCurry’s renowed Afghan girl.
(via Metafilter)

Except for the Emerging Technology Conference that loads of people are already writing about, I cant seem to find anything to blog about and the weather sucks ass). So the only thing remotely interesting I have to say is that I’ve added these blogs to my RSS reader, they all seem pretty interesting so check them out.

You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.