Ryan and I had the chance to take a long weekend, and so we pretended to be tourists. We went to Alcatraz, the aquarium, and Musee Mechanique, and then topped off the day by eating seafood (I had my first oyster on the half shell, and I was not impressed). The only thing bad about acting like a tourist is that you have to be around many, many tourists.

On Sunday, we watched the entire DVD collection of Firefly. It was pretty awesome, but I can’t believe they were cancelled before we learned ANYTHING about ANYONE!! Haven’t watched the movie yet, we’re waiting for the HD version to get here in the mail. Up next? Battlestar Galactica!

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Quick rundown:

+ New Shuffle
+ Color nanos (precious)
+ Movies
+ iTV (as it’s code-named) looks sweet
+ Better battery life for iPods in general
+ 80GB? Booyah! And it’s pretty cheap at $349
+ Games on the iPod

- Only 4GB nanos have colors. WTF?!
- Disney movies only so far (will soon add more, hopefully)
- iTV may only support iTunes purchased video (heard from a reliable source inside)
- You have to buy games? Oh rly?
- No turtleneck? What happened, Steve?

+/- Movies at 640×480 (Meh… better than 320×240 I guess)

Ok, and now for my real rant. I was so close to being free for the bonds of Fairplay. I was talking about other Mac-compatible players, planning on burning/ripping all my iTunes tracks to destroy the DRM, maybe even going Media Center in the house. But then they brought out those little color nanos, and the Apple fangirl inside of me gave a little gasp of joy, much like that of a hamster seeing a ferris wheel for the first time and thinking it’s the biggest hamster wheel in the world. Uh… yeah, just like that.

However, those dreams were crushed when I learned that only the 4GB nanos would have the colors. But… but… I wanted a 8GB pink nano, AND I WANT IT NOW!! *ahem* Sorry. I get a little hysterical thinking about it.

The final insult came when I installed iTunes 7.0 on my PC at work. I have iTunes on there so I can check the podcast to make sure it’s loading. After the lengthy downloading and installing process, I went into the program to check things out. I liked the new design, but my podcasts were acting funny. And by funny, I mean not loading. Then Explorer crashed. I tried again. Crash. Again. Crash. You get the picture. I gave up, and went to the BOL forums to get more impressions. Let’s just say that apparently the Windows XP version of iTunes enjoys not only crashing, but taking down the iPod with it. What the hell?

I’m installing iTunes now at home on the G5, so hopefully things will go a little smoother. If you want to hear my hysterics in audio form, check out the Buzz Out Loud and MP3 Insider podcasts for today. And if you’ve gotten this far into the post, let me know what you think about the annoucements.

References: News.com, Engadget (nice work Ryan and Paul!), MacRumors

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Some of my videos from Maker Faire are up on CNET. So far, my “Fighting Robots” and “Ultimate LEGO Train Set” are live! So go check them out… more to follow.

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Having a terrible time
Originally uploaded by Nowhere Dan.

I love this picture, just because I look like I want to hurt Dan. Which is probably true. That’s because he hasn’t played WoW in weeks, and I’m feeling spurned. Ryan, on the other hand, clearly wants no part in my evil plans.

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