Rumors about new Apple gizmo’s to be released at WWDC are starting to swirl, moreso following the recent (totally expected) hardware announcements. One of the big rumors going around is about a wifi 802.11g iPod. The potential of a wifi iPod is amazing:

• iPod streams to AirPort Express speakers
• iPod controls iTunes via wifi (universal iTunes remote)
• iPod able to stream music to other iPods (local music parties)
• iPod able to update from iTunes library wirelessly (slow, but the fewer wires the better)
• Internet access on iPod (drool)
• Possibility to wirelessly purchase music from commercial sources (concerts, stores, etc), directly to iPod
• Roaming iTMS access
• Radio via Internet streams
• An exceptionally cool $499 pocket wifi detector

In short, the iPod would be much more of a peer device to the computer, right now iPods are mostly dead-end portable containers.

Much as I know it will never happen, I really wish Apple would just release an iPod SDK. THEN we’d start to see some really cool stuff.

This post started as a comment to Steven Frank’s blog.

Sitting on a park bench looking across the Hudson River at the Colgate Clock and Ellis Island. Two hours left on the laptop battery, three bars on an open wifi network, it’s relatively quiet and a cool breeze is blowing in off the river. It’ll probably rain soon, but for now I’m catching up on email and relaxing a bit.

I walked by Ground Zero for the first time in a long time. It makes me kind of wish I worked in construction. I also saw the memorial and tower models in the Winter Garden atrium. They’re going to be beautiful. Most encouraging, there will be a clean, perfect vertical line up the southernmost corner of the Freedom Tower. I rarely heard it mentioned, if ever, but the corners of the old WTC towers were astounding, perfect vertical planes going up nearly a fifth of a mile. I’d never seen anything else like it. When the new tower is done, I’ll be most looking forward to that sourthern point, standing at the bottom and looking up along the tallest unbroken vertical line on Earth.

In a strange overlapping of heretofore unconnected social circles, the trailer for Burke and Tara’s film Revolver won the Best Trailer – No Movie award at last night’s Golden Trailer Awards.

The Golden Trailer Awards were started five years ago by another friend, Evelyn Brady.

Congratulations to Burke and Tara and everyone who contributed to their fantastic trailer, it’s nice to see deserving people recognized for quality work.

YOU HAVE TO LEARN THIS FINGERING. THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT AND ACCEPTABLE FINGERING FOR THIS STANDARD TYPE OF SCALE. THIS IS BASIC MUSICIANSHIP FOR THE BEGINNING PIANISTS TO PLAY THIS KIND OF SCALE CORRECTLY BY USING THE ABOVE FINGERING.

Impressive math visualization with JavaScript by Jeffrey Clymer:

• Graphing in JavaScript
• Polar Graphing in JavaScript
• Fourier Transform in JavaScript

I don’t like April Fool’s Day very much.

Good morning! As of 7:15am EST, more than 50 virus failure notification messages had arrived in my inbox overnight, at least that amount were also filtered as spam. (12 more just arrived while typing this)

Just in case you got a message you think came from me, I can assure you you did not. Besides only using one email address, I’m running OS X and my sites are hosted on Linux, neither of which are vulnerable.

Symantec and Network Associates Inc. are listing dozens of active NetSky and Beagle/Bagle varients. If the volume I’m seeing is any indication, the Internet might be a big gummed up today.