02.) Sun Kil Moon – April

03.) Dodos – Visiter

04.) M83 – Saturdays=Youth

05.) Cat Power – Jukebox

06.) Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours

07.) No Age – Nouns

08.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

09.) Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair

10.) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

11.) MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

12.) Black Keys – Attack & Release

13.) Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us

14.) Roots – Rising Down

15.) Wolf Parade – Mount Zoomer

16.) Portishead – Third

17.) Times New Viking – Rip It Off

Currently Listening To:

No Age – Nouns – Sleeper Hold

02.) M83 – Saturdays=Youth

03.) Sun Kil Moon – April

04.) Dodos – Visiter

05.) Cat Power – Jukebox

06.) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

07.) Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair

08.) Black Keys – Attack & Release

09.) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

10.) Portishead – Third

11.) Roots – Rising Down

Currently Listening To:

De La Soul – Stakes Is High – Dog Eat Dog

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Currently Listening To:
Glen Hansard and Markets Irglova – Once Soundtrack – When Your Mind’s Made Up

* Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass – None Shall Pass

* UGK – Int’l Player’s Anthem (I Choose You) feat. Outkast

* Michael Cera and Ellen Page – Juno Soundtrack – I Choose You

* The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters – Cold Days From the Birdhouse

Currently Listening To:
DJ Muggs vs. GZA/Genius – Grandmasters – General Principles

What was great about the Rio Karma? Better sound quality, an equalizer (that was not available in the iPod at the time of purchase in 2004), support of ogg, flac, aac, and non-stop playback, and not to mention cheaper than the iPod by about $100.

The case was still true for the Trekstor, sans equalizer, so I found a place online to purchase from. Unfortunately, since the product is designed and manufactured in Germany, there was only one or two places that would import it. After shipment I eagerly tried it out, but to my dismay, it didn’t work, at all. Unfortunately the importer provided a poor return policy and for audio devices would not repair them, I decided to return the item for a refund.

After this fiasco, along with other birthday present failures, I decided to go with the fail-safe iPod Touch. If it broke, at least I could take it somewhere to get fixed.

I had installed iTunes a couple of times before, just to play around with it and didn’t care for the software. I didn’t care for its bundling of Quicktime and a few other features I didn’t care for, but I thought I would take it all in strides to own this cool little device.

48 hours after installation, my computer ground to a halt. No response was able to be made, a total reboot had to be made. 5 minutes later after reboot, the same thing. I then rebooted again and tried uninstalling the last apps that were installed, namely iTunes. Problem solved.

Until MediaMonkey or the iPod Winamp plugin supports the iPod touch I unfortunately have to live with the uninstalling/installing of iTunes just to connect to the iPod.

As far as the iPod Touch, it’s freaking awesome, a very cool little toy.

Currently Listening To:

LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver – All My Friends

1.) Handsome Furs – What We Had
2.) Andrew Bird – Plasticities
3.) The Avalanches – Ray of Zdarlight
4.) Feist – My Moon My Man
5.) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – Tell Me
6.) Radiohead – Reckoner
7.) Arcade Fire – No Cars Go
8.) Kanye West – I Wonder
9.) Neko Case – Live from Austin City Limits – Buckets of Rain
10.) Spoon – You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
11.) Mark Ronson – Oh My God ft. Lily Allen
12.) Wilco – Impossible Germany
13.) Rougue Wave – Like I Needed
14.) Arctic Monkeys – Do Me A Favour
15.) Jens Lekman – I’m Leaving You / If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
16.) Black Kids – I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance

Currently Listening To:
Rogue Wave – Asleep At Heaven’s Gate – Chicago x 12

Currently Listening To:
Feist – The Reminder – My moon, my man

• Facebook auctions off a percentage of shares, which turns into a bid war between MS and Google.
• Google loses the bid war, but no matter, they announce OpenSocial a week later.
• To keep up with the internet monster, Facebook announces it’s new ad plan which is powered by Beacon
• MoveOn publicly criticizes Facebook for privacy concerns, the internets blows it’s top.
• The back lash begins, and Facebook starts losing advertisers, namely Coke, everyone gets cold feet.
• Finally, today Facebook apologizes and makes it possible to opt-out globally.

I’ve read a few articles saying that Facebook is done, it’s declining, etc. But the thing is, probably only 3% of the populations knows this story. Of that, probably %2 use Facebook, and of that, probably %1 actually care. So, I don’t think this will really do anything to Facebook’s audience. The reason that Facebook got so popular is because of security and stupid, pointless applications. Yes, MySpace killed Friendster, and Facebook killed MySpace, but I feel it will be a while before Facebook sees a decline in it’s audience.