iTunes update sucks. I use my iPod daily, but I only need to run iTunes every couple of weeks, usually when I hear some awesome song on the radio and am then inspired to buy it.

But when I then start iTunes to do this impulse buy, it asks me if I want to install the new version of iTunes. And because their stupid update message doesn't tell me what is in the new version, I have to click "yes" since I don't want to miss any important bug fixes or cool new features.

Mr. Jobs, I just want to do a quick impulse buy of some more iTunes, and send you more money. Why are you making me install new software every time I want to send you money?

So I go through the freaking download/install process (noting that my purchase impulse is starting to wane) and then it says to me "To finish installing the software, you need to restart your computer".

Mr. Jobs, are you kidding me? I just wanted to do an impulse buy of a song I just heard on the radio, I want to send you money Mr. Jobs, and now you are making me first restart my computer?

And then I know what is going to happen. You are going to put the fucking Quicktime icon in my Quick Launch toolbar, which I then have to remove, again. Damn you Mr. Jobs.¶3:18 PM

The Flying Spaghetti Monster vs the Invisible Pink Unicorn. Enuf said. (Thanks to Nicole for the link.)¶9:52 PM

Road sign hacker - awesome!¶11:05 AM

Cool technique for colorizing black and white: works both for pictures and film! (From computer science students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.)¶6:14 AM

Snope Detector. It would be cool to have email programs detect attempts to forward an email which has been forwarded already to many people, and to look up the claim on snopes.com before allowing the user to forward it again. Or another way to say it-- rather than just having "spam" detection, I want email clients to also have "rumor" detection.¶6:22 PM

Social network messaging is annoying because when someone sends you a message, the site sends you an email saying "someone sent you a message" and instead of including a copy of the message in the email, they want you to then login to their site (generating more page/ad views for them) so you can read the message.

At some point I'm going to writeup a spec for a network-messaging-interception program which will grab these emails in real time (maybe using procmail etc), login for me, get the body of the message, and replace the notification message with the actual message. A fancy version could have a coded Reply-to which would allow me to "reply" just using my email client, but then having the special Reply-to recipient program parse the email and post it into the social networking site.¶2:47 PM