Not too long ago, I decided iPod gags had become clichéd and swore to myself that I would no longer include them in the strip. Then the J&R Music and Computer World iPod Accessory catalog arrived in the mail. It is truly an amazing cultural artifact. I knew about Apple's iPod socks, but was unaware of the
Hasbro I-DOG, which dances to your MP3s.
There's also the
iKitty, a rubber, cat-shaped protector; Apple's $99 Italian leather cases offering "luxurious protection for your iPod"; and the
XtremeMac iBling, which appears to be some kind of kit one uses to affix hundreds of colored crystals to a snap-on iPod shield. Retails for only $40! If I were a Sudanese refugee who spent my days eating dirt and fleeing decapitators, I would take great comfort in knowing that the Americans were spending hours on end gluing shiny stones to their portable music players.
An entertaining site I found while researching this week's strip:
The Cavalcade of Bad Nativities
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