Just Don't Play "Hello, It's Me"*

Or even "Telephone Line."** "Calling Out to Carol"*** would be acceptable.

According to today's "Poguecast," it appears that the iPod phone is now a reality. I don't know; I'm less enthused about this idea (what with that "cell phone elbow" and all). Still, what's important is that if it does take off, it will point the way toward a mass device conversion, perhaps enabled by what has been called morphware, or microprocessors that can "turn on a dime" and change a device from a cellphone into an MP3 player or a PDA or...you name it.

*Todd Rundgren, 1973
**Electric Light Orchestra, 1976
***Stan Ridgway, 1989