Ladies and gentlemen, Trekstor’s latest MP3 player, the i.Beat.Blaxx.

Where’s Al Sharpton when you need him?

(Hat tip: dcl via DaringFireball via Fake Steve Jobs Blog.)

Rumors of my abduction by Unitarian Universalists notwithstanding :), I’m safe and sound in Knoxville after two days of local-area-touring, bluegrass-music-listening, Katrina-presentation-giving, Smoky-Mountain-admiring, Gatlinburg-window-shopping-and-redneck-watching fun with Becky and Adrienne. Here are a couple of pictures from yesterday:

Adrienne heads back to L.A. tomorrow, after which I’ll have a couple of days to work on some logistical matters — including the blog’s big move from a dedicated server to Blogspot — before we head to Buffalo for the baby shower. And then on Tuesday, my job starts! I can’t believe the summer’s already just about over! (On the bright side, college football is almost here. Woohoo!)

As forecasted here (see “PS” at bottom of post, and Comment #6 :), the cyclone-scraped nation of Jamaica has bowed to Reality and postponed its scheduled August 27 election by a week.

In other Democracy-related news, the USofA’s Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committe has voted that millions of Florida Democrats’ ballots will be thrown out if they are cast on January 29 as decreed by Florida’s Republican-dominated legislature, rather than on February 5 (or later) as required by DNC Rules.

(Note: The foregoing paragraph is actually a massively-oversimplified distortion of a complex & important election-Law-vs.-party-Rules story; but what can I tell ya, I’m just feeling Fox-Newsy today. :)