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I came across this device yesterday.  Although I won’t be screaming for my life like the woman on the left, it would seem to get me excited too.

The Instant FM Music device claims to record live FM broadcasts, search songs on the radio, and do it all for under $50.

It uses a USB device that has a retractable antennea that can scan RDS information (that’s what radio stations use to send out song data) so you can listen and record any program or song you want.  Best of all, it seems to be DMCA compliant.  We’ll have to wait and see.

A survey conducted in August and presented yesterday shows that only one in four Americans check the sources of websites that give out health advice.  The survey was released by the Pew Internet Project.
About 10 million Americans searched the web for advice on health advice and medical problems in a day.  That 7% of internet users (US) made that rank in popularity with paying bills, searching for phone numbers, and reading blogs.

Among those top searches medical treatment, info on a certain disease, exercise, and nutrition.

How often have you been in a war zone in  a luxury can wished that you could be safe?  Well now you can with the Mercedes-Benz S600 Safegaurd.  The video (below) shows the car still move quick with shot out tires, getting fired on with a high-powered rifle and can take on fire. (the flamethrower kind).

And with a V12 and a $131,000 price tag you’ll be rolling through that war zone in style.

A few folks have told me to check out wine from Chile. I never thought of that before, so I decided to give it a stab. I tried the MontGras Merlot. Back in 2002 they won the best Chilean Wine producer award.

Although they claim that the wine has a plum aroma my not-so-well developed sense of smells could not sense it but my taste buds picked up a hint of cedar with a hint of drieness I’ve been looking for.

It’s not the best wine I’ve tasted, but a good venture into a “New World” wine. I’ll post updates as I continue to try this merlot.

It seems that a bunch of nerdcore hip-hop artists have put out a Halloween album that is free for download.  Check it out nerdsters.

Yesterday the CFO of Microsoft said he was confident that by the end of the year that the software giant would sell 4 million Xbox 360 game consoles.

Let’s put some things into perspective.  As of Thursday Microsof thas sold 6 million Xbox 360s since its worldwide release a year ago.

When Microsoft Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said he was “confident” they would sell another 4 million by the end of the year to the Washington Post he might not have considered that they would not be able to manufacture the units in time.

The price point for Sony’s PlayStation3 (starting at $499) will certainly help the holiday sales of the 360.  PS3’s retail won’t be able to help make the 360’s any faster.

You can now check out what songs I’ve been playing off of my computer on the right side of my page (below the poll).

It’s hooked in via my lastfm account.  If you love music and think myspace is addictive…don’t go to lastfm.

Enjoy!

The chairman of EMI Music spoke in front of an audience in London today and essentially said that the music CD is “dead”.
Alain Levy said: “The CD as it is right now is dead,” and added that 60% of buyer transfer the material to computers then digital media players.
He used this shock statement to prefece the statement that his company will have all of its new CDs produced with extra content by late 2007.
In Britain about 70% of music purchases are CDs while 11% of sales are downloads.