iTunes is cool. Not only will they give you free music if you buy Pepsi or pay them with PayPal, but you can share music if you have “Sharing” in your preferences turned on. You can’t download someone else’s music to your computer, but you can listen to it… at least until they turn iTunes off.
The especially cool thing about it is that if I have my iMac plugged in to the school’s network, and I have my iBook plugged into it elsewhere, I can access my own iTunes playlist. So I don’t have to download 12 GB of music into my iBook’s crummy little 15 GB of space.
Man, do I need an iPod.
I know, I know, Xanga keeps running those ads where if I do something violent to one of the moving images, I can win an iPod. It’s a pyramid scheme, people; I can’t win an iPod unless I buy a service, then sucker five of you into doing the same thing—which includes trying to sucker 25 other people, who must then sucker 125 other people, then 625, then 3125, then 15,625… By the twelfth iteration, you’ve just about run out of Americans. By the fourteenth, you’ve run out of humans. Do the math.
I can load six CDs onto my pocket PC, and four into my two-inch