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.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/dead-womans-text-message-helps-lock-up-murderous-husband-016034.php
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.
https://gizmodo.com/joshua-kinberg-and-bikes-against-bush-9427
I tried out All of MP3 for the first time, starting a love affair that lasted at least until they doubled their rates.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/allofmp3com-impressions-serious-contender-015959.php
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.
https://gizmodo.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-lc50-s-review-15931
May also has one of my favorite Gadget Bag interviews ever, with war coorespondant Peter Maass.
https://gizmodo.com/airport-express-with-airtunes-15811
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.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/3-million-psps-in-the-first-3-months-015797.php
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.
https://gizmodo.com/news-flash-libermann-go-l-laptops-overpriced-9584
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.’)
https://gizmodo.com/open-letter-to-apple-ogg-for-us-10020
The Circuits section first discovers something.
http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/circuits-discovers-musicpad-016328.php
