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By: Apple is Not Fruit » $8000 worth of iTunes songs per month costs…1 Fiancée; Wedding Called Off

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:24:02 +0000

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By: hacker not cracker

hacker not cracker — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:00:05 +0000

she had every right to call off the wedding. when you marry somebody, you are becoming one with their finances … not fun at all!

By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » $8000 worth of iTunes songs per month costs…1 Fiancée; Wedding Called Off

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:20:14 +0000

[...] In looking at his last bill (for one month) he had charged more than 8,000 iTunes at 99 cents each and had charges at places that sell music and movies, too. This guy made $45,000 a year. Called off the wedding.read more | digg story Links [...]

By: Muskblog » Blog Archive » Music, Money, and the Macintosh

Muskblog » Blog Archive » Music, Money, and the Macintosh — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:28:48 +0000

[...] So here is the story, the point of this posting. During a keynote speech Steve Jobs revealed that a single person had spent $29,500 dollars on downloads in nine months. At a dollar a song you don’t have to be genius to figure out how many downloads that is. The story gets more interesting as over at the Apple Blog it is revealed that the person who spent this much money isn’t in fact rich, they may have made these purchases on credit. And although it is pure speculation it may have been Dalton Ross or perhaps someone else is spending $3000 a month on iTunes downloads? [...]

By: Geoff C

Geoff C — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:44:19 +0000

It’s priceless that most of you are buying into this article as news or fact.

If the situation is true, he still got off cheaper with the iTMS bill, than with the fiancee bill. With the music you can turn it off when you are tired of listening to it.

By: wouldnt you like to know...

wouldnt you like to know... — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 06:06:15 +0000

i dont what the big deal is, i spent that much on crack, got nothing to show but diminshing health, strained family relations, i have a friend with a bar bill for that much last year.

at least he got something out of the deal.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 04:25:08 +0000

I don’t suppose there is any way to track the validity of this story?

By: » and I thought I had spending issues…

» and I thought I had spending issues… — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 02:49:33 +0000

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By: Clicked : Message over messenger

Clicked : Message over messenger — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:49:01 +0000

[...] Posted: Friday, November 17, 2006 2:30 PM by Will Femia Since CNN threw a big blogger party on election night I’ve been thinking about how the media world has been sorting out the message from the messengers when it comes to bloggers and online trends generally. Putting a bunch of bloggers in a coffee house and interviewing them while they blog pretty much misses the point of what makes blogging special (even if it is a lot of fun for the bloggers involved). I think most media outlets are beyond that kind of thinking. Nick Carr brought the subject to mind again when he pointed out that in the latest Technorati State of the Blogosphere report, mainstream media outlets are increasing their share of link traffic. It used to be that more bloggers would link to Instapundit linking to the Washington Post than to the Washington Post itself, so celebrated was the messenger. I saw the message/messenger theme again last night while reading the internal Gawker Media memo about the firing of Valleywag writer Nick Douglas, “But anytime a writer settles in too closely with the subjects he/she’s writing about, there comes the inevitable tradeoffs: favor trading, and an elevated sense of one’s own importance to the field at hand.” And this morning Om Malik’s remarks on the turnover at AOL and Fox Interactive brought to mind the decreasing value of the Internet messenger: “It seems to me that the old media companies are putting old media guys in charge of their new media empires.” I’m still waiting for this theme to gel in my brain, but I think I’m finally getting a sense of what the mediascape looks like when “Bloggers vs. Journalists” is truly over. Then there’s this: “Tony Blair’s outgoing chief strategy adviser fears the internet could be fuelling a “crisis” in the relationship between politicians and voters.” This is similar to what G.H.W. Bush said the other day about bloggers and the political environment. I’m still on the fence about whether this means there will be a backlash against bloggers or the next generation will simply learn not to take bloggers so seriously. Though I admittedly don’t pay very close attention, I didn’t realize Lindsay Lohan is such a wise ass. My impression of her is decidedly improved as a result. Speaking of magazine interview excerpts, Sacha Baron Cohen is interviewed as himself in the new Rolling Stone. Have I not been paying attention or does it seem like this magazine is more relevant lately than it’s been in years? As long as we’re reading magazines, Megnut rounds up Turkey cooking tips from magazines. “Humans possess a tiny, shiny crystal of magnetite in the ethmoid bone, located between your eyes, just behind the nose.” The theory is that we have a built-in compass. Sense of direction is not the same as sense of north, so I’m not sure I buy the whole thing. Zune ad spoofs – Ironically, this is probably the best PR news I’ve seen for Zune this week. Is life necessary to the definition of animal? If, for example, it’s illegal to have sex with an animal, is it also illegal to have sex with a dead animal? This guy hopes not. This defense is officially more humiliating than the Borat frat guy’s ”I was too drunk to contain my own racism” defense. Flying Alarm Clock – How Harry Potter is this? The alarm goes off, the propeller spins and you have to wake up and get of bed to chase the thing down and shut it off. Speaking of flying robots, “Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday.” Effects of troop numbers in Iraq – Even if you’re only mildly interested, try to read past the first chart to see how the statistics are being explored, it’s pretty interesting. SiteMaps Explained – This is my favorite kind of link. I saw all the hype about the major portals agreeing on a site map standard. I sort of gathered that it has implications for search engines but really, I didn’t understand what made it such big news. Thanks Global Nerdy for the explanation. “Microsoft could save 45 million tons of CO2 emissions with a few lines of computer code.” Their suggestion is to install “deep hibernation” on all MS machines so that when they sit idle overnight they use less energy. Jedi Knights demand Britain’s fourth largest ‘religion’ receives recognition Also, UN rejects Jedi Knights’ plea for recognition -this one has a video link to the UN press conference. The whole thing is funny except when you watch the press conference and see it paired with news updates about Darfur. “If the experiment works, a signal could be received before it’s sent” This is an interesting article, but if time travel exists, why try so hard to figure it out? Just wait for yourself to come back in time and let you know how it works. Do small cost economies like iTunes target the compulsive over-spender? I feel like somewhere there’s someone at Apple saying, “It worked!” The head butt heard ’round the world becomes part of French culture. [...]

By: The English Gentleman

The English Gentleman — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:24:07 +0000

This fella should just sell his story to the press, make a load o’ money off it. Pay his debts off and said his ex a thank you note for dumping him before he made an even bigger mistake in marrying her.

You marry for love NOT money or the lack there of!