Lately, I’ve been having problems with iTunes seeing my iPod and letting me transfer new songs to it. I’ve fought with this issue before but I don’t know what’s causing it now. I tried moving the Firewire cable to another of the Firewire jacks on my computer but that wasn’t helping. Then this morning, I booted into Windows to get the latest freebies from iTunes and it (sort of) detected the iPod correctly.

Initially, it acted as though I was attaching a new iPod, but then it was able to see all my playlists and other songs on it. As an added bonus, iTunes also automatically forwarded me to page where I could download a free music sampler. Most likely, you too can get the album by going to: iTunes New Music Sampler (Atlantic/Lava Edition)

Just a bunch of links that I’ve picked up in the last week or 2 that interested me…

Drawn! is a new group blog about illustration, art, and cartooning:
http://www.drawn.ca/

Stephen Colbert, from The Daily Show, interview:
http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/002407.php

80’s TV Commercials:
http://www.x-entertainment.com/downloads/

Build your own magnetic spice rack:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43894-2004May20.html

Interesting Science Friday:
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2005/Mar/hour2_031105.html

A “downloadable TV show” mentioned on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/articles/05/03/17/1322246.shtml?tid=129&tid=155

Some sort of online, short film recommended to me by Pukka:
http://www.delivery.framebox.de/

Ain’t It Cool News visits Pixar:
http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=19658#1

Wicked Cool Latte Art, links via Boing Boing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonx/sets/48921/
http://www.latteart.org/latteart.htm

Camera Hacks is a community website to share tips/tricks/tutorials/links to info on cameras (digital or film):
http://camerahacks.com/

The Monk
You scored 18% Cardinal, 58% Monk, 47% Lady, and 35% Knight!
You live a peaceful, quiet life. Very little danger comes you way and you live a long time. You are wise and modest, but also stagnant. You have little comfort, little food and have taken a vow of silence. But who needs chatter when just sitting in the cloister of your abbey with The Good Book makes you perfectly content.
Monk
My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

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You scored higher than 9% on Cardinal
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You scored higher than 84% on Monk
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You scored higher than 70% on Lady
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You scored higher than 17% on Knight

Link: The Who Would You Be in 1400 AD Test written by KnightlyKnave on Ok Cupid