Well, they finally decided to pull MacWorld out of Boston. I suppose it makes sense, considering the show couldn’t even get Apple to come. I’ve been to two shows in Boston (one at the South Boston Cenvention Center, and the other most recently at the Hynes Convention Center), and also one here in San Francisco. It’s easy to say that the SF show blew the Boston ones out of the water. While I never had the chance to go to one of the MacWorlds when they were in New York, from what I’ve heard it was much more exciting (to nerds like me) than the later shows.

While this makes me a little sad (now I don’t have an excuse for anymore improptu visits to Boston) I can see where they’re coming from. The Boston shows, especially at South Boston, was pathetic at best. The area that MacWorld took up was a paltry 1/4th of the room they were in. It looked… sad. Hynes was laid out a little better, but the gap left by vendors such as Apple, Macromedia, Adobe, etc was very noticable. I couldn’t tell from the article whether or not they’re planning on moving the show back to NYC, or if they’re just going to have the one show in SF. Maybe… two shows in SF? That’d be super.

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John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a hilarious post about iTunes 5 and the loss of brushed metal. Special guest star: Aqua interface!

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

You will be missed, B.M.

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A few years ago, I downloaded an old-skool Apple emulator so I could play Oregon Trail. It was especially fun, because we made our travel party out of people who we HATED. So then the game would validate my feelings by saying such things as “Dan* has died of dysentery!”

Well, today I came across a great t-shirt. And now I think I need to own it.

*name has been changed to protect my popularity.

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From Engadget:

Well, looks like Apple’s updating their iPod mini lineup too, but certainly not before introducing (yet) another addition to their iPod starting lineup—the iPod nano. It will feature 500 song/2GB and 1,000 song/4GB capacities, a color display, and, of course, a click wheel. The device is no more than 62% the size of the already diminutive iPod mini, weighs 1.5 ounces (42 grams), will come in black (as well as iPod white), and includes a few new niceties such as a nighttime inverse screen mode for the $199 and $249 pricetag. Dock ($29) not included, but lanyard headphones will be available for $39.

Also, the Rokr.

Interesting! That looks pretty hot. Too bad it’s not a video iPod though. Ever slowly we inch closer…

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