Rent my DVR... well, not **my** DVR, but someone's.

This looks pretty sweet... Harman Kardon Bridge iPod dock. Only $100, out for Christmas.

Since I'm sure it will be covered ad nauseum by every publication over the next few days, I'll keep my summary of the new Moto ROKR E1 iTunes phone brief... BORING!!

I'll take a 4GB black iPod nano please... same $249 price (actually 99 cents cheaper), no two-year service contract, lots more storage (1,000 songs vs. 100).

As expected, the ROKR E1 is just a minor update to the E398 - white instead of black plastic and an iTunes button. I've already got an E398... wonder if I can get the iTunes software for it?

It seems clear that Moto has several more iTunes models on the horizon. And I wouldn't be surprised if Apple is working with other handset vendors as well. Hope some of those are more revolutionary than this one. I would love to see a Nokia Nseries model that supported iTunes, but I think an Apple / Nokia partnership of this nature is unlikely considering their similar brand aspirations.

A couple of specific nits about the ROKR E1...

Use of TransFlash memory format sucks. This format is not as widely used, so higher price per MB than miniSD and harder to find. Good thing Cingular seems to be including a 512MB card.

Although the ROKR E1 commercials make it appear otherwise, I'm a bit concerned that the product descriptions make it seem like you have to manually pause the music when a call comes in:

• "Pause music when you need to take a call" - Cingular's site


• "You can even pause the music when your phone rings, so you won’t miss any incoming calls" - Apple's site

This should happen automatically... incoming phone calls trump everything on a phone. Period.

Went to Bumbershoot yesterday to see The Donnas and Garbage, and was disappointed to find that they aren't handing out wristbands this year to get into Mainstage concerts in Memorial Stadium. That practice has been an institution for as long as I've been going to the festival. This year, they're handing out tokens instead... same purpose, but not the same experience.

Looks like the Nikon P1 and P2, the first digital cameras with integrated Wi-Fi will be duds as they only allow you to transfer photos to a computer with special software installed. Not much of an improvement over USB, and probably better addressed by Bluetooth.

Kodak's upcoming EasyShare-One promises to offer support for uploading photos directly to their Ofoto EasyShare Gallery online photo service... cool. The EasyShare-One features a 4MP image sensor and 185MB of internal storage and is expected to be out in October for $600.

Think Nikon needs to partner with Shutterfly, Yahoo, or Yahoo's Flickr asap. Wonder if the P1 and P2 are able to support that or if we'll have to wait for future models?

I was in no way involved in this shameful incident....

When somebody passes out drunk, you can’t deny that it’s funny to torture him a little — tie his shoelaces together, smear lipstick across his face, hide his car keys. Maybe it’s even funny to cut the guy’s pants open with a boxcutter. But to put swizzle sticks up his ass?

PervScan --> Man Assaulted with Swizzle Sticks

Nokia intros mobile search app for the latest Series 60 handsets: 6630, 6680, 6681. Props to them for delivering a rich client app and not just something you use through the browser... just a better user experience, especially given high latency of mobile networks and abundant on-board storage for caching past searches for quick recall. I assume they'll bundle this with most future Series 60 handets, including the first Nseries models (N70, N90, N91) that should be widely available (at least in Europe) before the end of the year.

Cheerleaders' chant helps foil hit-and-run... seriously.

The iPod is now officially this decade's Air Jordans... a highly desirable possession worth killing for.

Just came across an ad in Rolling Stone for the Sony NW-E507 Network Walkman (1GB), which looks like a promising new Flash-based portable audio player.

The NW-E507 is $50 more expensive than a comparably-sized iPod shuffle, but goes shuffle three better with an FM tuner, a cool-looking OLED display, and jog-dial navigation. Apparently supports WMA playback, but probably does not support DRM-protected music from Napster, Rhapsody, Yahoo!, etc. (and definitely not iTunes) - you want to buy music digitally for this guy, it's Sony Connect for you... blech!