October has the SeaGrand RaveMetal, an flash-based MP3 player that's built like a cassette tape. I still think that's brilliant, if not very useful. We also got our first inkling of a flash-based iPod, although it obviously won't be out before Christmas.

Proving that there is a god, but that he is a heartless necromancer, someone invents a process to make clothing from lab-grown human flesh just weeks before Halloween.

The Jens of Sweden MP-400 is announced, the flash player that eventually eventually won me over on flash players.

Someone put LEDs in a toilet seat because no one else had done it before.

In October, I call the inventor of the TV-B-Gone remote an "asshole," causing dozens of other assholes to write me emails. I quickly invent the first beret with embedded LEDs that flash TV SUX and make one million dollars.

One of the only stylish iPod contenders, the Olympus m:robe series, are said to be coming to America.

Liebermann/Go-L computers, possible one of the worst computer companies ever to have existed, dies a whiny death.

Proving they have a good sense of humor, Segway shows off a four-wheeled prototype.

We learned that the Treo 650 would support Bluetooth DUN profiles, according to Sprint—who then quietly neglects to actually release the DUN drivers.

Hori creates the best PS2 controller ever made. Apple makes a black U2 iPod and the somewhat disappointing iPod Photo. I lambast Dvorak for saying Podcasting is dead, then never do my own Podcast.

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