In April, Sony announced its intentions to produce a hard disk-based music player. At the time, we didn't know it would be awful.

I also got sort of upset when Gametrac changed the name of their still-unreleased handheld gaming system to Gizmondo. I also maybe implied they helped child molesters find children to touch.

It was a month of personal development for me, as I learned that perpetual motion is actually impossible, even for the Chinese Japanese.

Some people with a middling command of Spanish thought that the Xbox 2 hard drive (which we learned may not actually be in the standard Xbox) also would double as a portable music player.

We also had our first mention of videogame playing surgeons, a story we'd see repeated throughout the year in various news outlets.

Gizmodo also extended its cross-cultural studies to include this bit about why the Japanese like to have sex with bamboo hammocks.

April also has the first mention of an Apple iTunes phone, which was announced with Motorola in June, then inexplicably flared up again in December. Also, first use of the term knockers. Queries about the age of the editor are met with the ASCII characters for farting noises and Hello, Kitty Headlamps.

Apple says not to expect G5 Powerbooks for a while, isn't lying.

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