An argument for the 8-track.

This article about the new iPod is generally worthless–it’s filled with analysts’ quotes and PR–but the last few paragraphs are priceless:

Computer and iPod sales often lag in the days leading up to an announcement from Apple. But New Bern, N.C., resident Mike Afflerbach bought an iPod on Friday and said he didn’t feel buyer’s remorse.

Afflerbach said he didn’t need video playback on the device and worried that the new feature would tend to eat up the gadget’s battery life.

He also doesn’t need the gadget to get any tinier, he said. “I don’t really want it to get any smaller,” he said. “It’s not like I need to have it performing endoscopic surgeries or anything.”

Added Afflerbach, as he climbed into his Studebaker, “and what’s going on with these new-fangled blogs, anyway? What’s wrong with an old-fashioned paper diary?” I mean, would it have killed them to add, “it appeared that Afflerbach had actually convinced himself that he hadn’t just gotten himself totally screwed”?