Apple, will you please get your crap together and release a 64GB iPod Touch?  I love the iPod Touch and it’s really elegant, but I’m not downgrading a 60GB iPod video to a 32GB Touch.  It doesn’t make sense.  I’ll have to leave a lot of content off the device.

And the 60GB iPod needs upgrading.  Trust me.  There was the incident with the cover art, where my iPod just “forgot” every piece of cover art I had stored on it.  (Strangely, the “Get Cover Art” command in iTunes replaced everything EXCEPT the cover art from the albums I had bought on iTunes.  So all my ripped albums had cover art, but none of the stuff I bought digitally.)

Then there’s the constant wrangling with iTunes/iPod and Windows Vista.  Vista wants to erase it every time I plug it in.  It also wants to hold up whatever tells the iPod that it’s okay to disconnect when it’s done synching, so now that’s become a guessing game.

A 64GB Touch would be just what the doctor ordered.  I have Amex points to spend.

Linkety-link.

Some of my favorites are here, including Saturday Night Live’s “Happy Fun Ball” and “Bad Idea Jeans.”

If you’re active on XBox 360 and in my social media sphere, what’s your handle?  Inquiring minds want to know.  Post your gamer handle in comments.

Microsoft backed off.  What will Yahoo have to look forward to?  Probably shareholder lawsuits.

It must suck when you want to innovate and help shape digital media, and instead have to contend with a bunch of people who probably know little to nothing about the industry, complaining in your ear because they want to see a deal done at $37 a share.

The only way to make sure you can continue to innovate is to AVOID TAKING MONEY.  This is why I don’t understand why Yang and the gang don’t cash out and start up a new company, funding it with whatever they make from the sale of Yahoo stock.

Beholden to nobody is the new name of the game.

Okay. This is hysterical.

One of the unpopular rules regarding putting bikes on Long Island Rail Road trains is that they can’t be on trains during peak hours.  Or on holidays.

It’s bad enough that a permit is needed to bring a bike on a train.  It’s worse that there can’t be more than four bikes total on any weekday train.  This is pathetic.

If and when gas prices break $4, you’re going to see a lot of commuters riding to the station.  You’re also going to see people wanting to ride from Penn Station to their job.  Better get working on a way to roll back some of these annoying bicycle rules so that people don’t have to leave bikes at the station (to be stolen).

Things that were on the agenda for this weekend:

1. Go to Home Depot and get peat moss, garden soil
2. Plant three trees
3. Plant tomato plants
4. Get summer squash seeds germinating

Things that actually got done this weekend:

1. Go to P.C. Richard’s and get a new TV
2. Install it
3. Sit around and wait for the exterminator, electrician and tree guy
4. Fix my chainsaw
5. Cut up four trees and stack the logs
6. Get rid of the brush and mulch left behind by the tree guy

I need another weekend.

I have a lot of great photos from my vacation in Disney World.  One funny one, though, is this shot of the soundboard guy from the Finding Nemo-The Musical show in Epcot.  As I was leaving the show, I poked my head over to take a look at the sound gear.  I happened to catch something weird in the upper left hand corner of the mixing board.  Yeah, that’s a Staples Easy Button glued there (circled in red).  I thought that was cute.

So I was printing out a photo of Mustard Man on the color printer, so I could hang it on Underscore’s Wall O’ Internet Memes.  Looks like printing out all that mustard killed the yellow cartridge…

Someone at the Ronkonkoma train station has a Smart Car.  Want.

I saw this parked at the station this morning and had no idea Smart had made it to the U.S. until I saw it.  Looks like Mercedes-Benz of Smithtown is the one importing them.

A stripped-down one runs $11,590 base price.  Tack on $5K if you want a convertible, which I would if I were to get one.

According to How Stuff Works, gas mileage is anywhere between 46.3 (city) and 68.9 (highway).  The train station is 3 miles from my home.  Let’s call that 50 MPG just to make the math easy.  My truck gets 10 MPG.  Assuming gas costs $3.50 a gallon, I’d be saving $3.36/day on gas.  It sounds like it would be a lot, but it would take almost nine and a half years to pay for the base model Smart with fuel savings.

Still, a convertible would be fun.