Purging Facebook friends is cathartic to me. Good post!

Seriously, REMOVE YOKO'S CLEAVAGE FROM THE HEADER!

I have zero problems with the Beatles being on iTunes, and the prices are reasonable. It's just not that big of a deal for someone who is capable of using a CD-ROM and the most basic of basic knowledge of encoding music. I say go for it Apple, make a killing! A sucker's born every minute.

Sosumi. Man oh man, the irony.

@fuhteng: Not really... is it? Should have gone with a vocoder joke.

@webman2k: Yup, the only musical artists to get excited about hitting iTunes are the artists that have not released any of their music to any previous format. In the end, the iTunes music is no different than a ripped CD.

"Maybe she's bitter because her ex-husband died hugging a tree."

I really hope it's new Features and not new Content. Getting the Beatles on iTunes is only fun for people who literally were born yesterday.

What's the deal with iTunes anyway? I listened to music with it once. then analyzed the playback techniques, deduced the rest of the time would be listening to audio through my speakers and sat my computer down.

@mikehart526: Yes, thank you for explaining what the Oatmeal cartoon above just explained. I'm glad to hear you eat vitamins and are a healthy horse.

Good post. Keep up the hard work!

Jesus! thats a big head.

When recording a loud event with your pathetic cell phone, simply put your thumb over the microphone so that the recording doesn't sound like a clipped, distorted, screeching mess! An even better tip? Put your damn phone away and just watch!

@Talryyn: I have no idea.

@Talryyn: I would imagine the farsighting is based mainly on the primary use of the Kinect, as opposed to a limitation in the technology.

@Invisible-Echidna: Maybe not 8 ft. but what if you had a 30" monitor and could sit upwards of 4 ft. away gesturing to control the computer? The gesture control has potential to break down some common approaches to operating a PC. Although text input (keyboard) remains a difficult device to replace.

The idea of getting the Kinect to control a computer by gestures is very exciting! This has the potential to leap frog touch control computers altogether.

Well the pitch dark room should work ok, considering the Kinect

Google is the 21st Century God.

I remember being a teen (9 years ago) and having about 6 AIM chats going on at once with it being attention grabbing but I was easily capable of doing it. Mainly because I wanted it to be that way. I can only imagine how trying to Text that fast must feel (or rather that the messages sent are not the deepest messages).