May found us looking across the pond for at least twenty or thirty seconds as a dead woman's SMS messages helped in the conviction of her murderous husband.

Poor Joshua Kinberg first tells us about "Bikes Against Bush", a clever hack that would have been used to spray temporary chalk messages during the 2004 Republican Convention, were it not so terribly easy to throw dissenters in vans.

I tried out All of MP3 for the first time, starting a love affair that lasted at least until they doubled their rates.

Someone makes a spherical Volkswagen Bus, which is better than any given12 commercial products from May. I first mock Mossberg, giving readers the impression I might be unnecessarily bitter and disinterested in a career in journalism. Hilarious photo of Mossberg on Segway brushes aside all concerns.

May also has one of my favorite Gadget Bag interviews ever, with war coorespondant Peter Maass.

Sony claims they will sell 3 million PSPs in the first 3 months, a target they miss horribly due to production issues, while Nintendo goes on to sell around 4 million units for the Xmas 2004 season.

Liebermann hatred begins in earnest, as does a variety of mispellings of their company name. We host the "iRaq" pictures taken by Copper Green, arguably our biggest story (in a media-wide sense) of the year. iPod Video rumors are mostly on the mark, except for that whole video thing.

We also asked Apple to add OGG Vorbis support to the iPod. We later begged. Results were predictible (although Phil Schiller did write me a letter, telling me he didn't like it when I said 'fuck.')

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