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I don’t even own an iPhone or even an iPod Touch yet. (Sigh.) But when I do, I’m sure to download the Bloom app.

This program allows you not only to create ambient music that sounds like Brian Eno. Since Eno, along with partner, Peter Chilvers, designed the program, you are essentially creating his ambient music. No matter how you set the parameters on this software, it sounds like Music for Airports or On Land. I can’t decide, in the big scheme, whether that’s really such a good thing, but for $3.99 I’ll give it a ride.

The final week of December is here. The weather in Iowa moved conditions from winter wonderland to foggy bottom. With all the election year I can stomach packed in my gut, much like 2000, a man named Al waits for a decision on an election.  I hear Ben has a ticket to the biggest parade in January this side of Pasadena. Anyone feel like throwing down on a best and worst of ’08? Let’s make this easy. Things that need to continue in 2009 and things that should be recorded and forgotten.

Here’s a short start.

Yes:

Obama

Twitter

the App Store

No:

Dick Cheney

J. S. McPalin