Now that the iPhone music is available to buy on iTunes, it seems like everyone and his dog is getting on an iPhone parody trip. Here's the ZunePhone, a mock-up of what Microsoft's iPod-Slayer would be like if it had Jesus-like qualities. [YouTube via TUAW]

Microsoft Hardware expertise paved the way for Xbox, Zune and Microsoft Surface.

Zune for $149.99 (+$5 shipping) on Woot!

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We're not sure we want to know what frightening methods of coercion Woot used to snag enough (white) Zunes to sell on the site for $150 apiece, but if you're looking for a deal that won't get rejected on the grounds of it being, well, erroneous, now's your chance. Commence Apple / Microsoft fanboy "debate" in three, two...

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Woot has the white Microsoft Zune up for $149 today. [Woot - Thanks Marco!]

There is a nice program called YouTube Robot that allows users to download YouTube videos and add them to your Zune for future viewing. The YouTube Robot program allows users to search YouTube, download the video, convert the video to to the format you want and then transfer to your mobile device. Currently, YouTube Robot. [...]

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We got a few minutes to chat (once again) with Real's Rob Glaser today, who was kind enough to answer a few lingering questions about Real's freshly announced music alliance with MTV and Verizon called Rhapsody America.
On Urge and integrating with Rhapsody, "The Urge brand will be retired... but we wanted to be welcoming and loving to existing Urge subscribers" who are now making the migration to Rhapsody. On Rhapsody and MTV's strange bedfellows partnership: "Philosophically we have very similar views...", Real intends to leverage "MTV's expertise in genres and content curation", but technologically Real's Rhapsody platform will continue to be what the venture builds off.
For example, one unannounced iteration of that integration would be with "MTV's Top 20 video countdown -- you'll be able to see the countdown and get music directly in Rhapsody." On PlaysForSure: "PFS is a legacy system that Microsoft abandoned ...

MTV's partner on a new digital music venture is indeed a Seattle company, but it's not Microsoft.
The Viacom subsidiary today announced a broad partnership with RealNetworks and Verizon Wireless to provide a digital music service spanning PCs, portable music players and mobile phones.
On Monday, I speculated that the Seattle company MTV might work with would be Microsoft and its Zune group, but I was off by about 14 miles.
I wonder if MTV lost patience with Microsoft after their jointly developed music service, Urge, failed to take significant share from iTunes.
Today's release from MTV calls Urge "critically acclaimed" and says it's a cornerstone of the new venture, but it still doesn't look good for Microsoft. First MSN Music fizzled; now Urge is going to be linked to RealNetworks.
Maybe MTV felt that Microsoft snubbed it and the Urge partnership by launching a separate music store for the Zune.
It's inside baseball, but you've got to wonder abou...

This arm belongs to Joe Tamargo, marketing genius, delusional dimwit or both, I don't really know. Some people do tigers, others do Zunes, some Nintendos and even Windows crashes, but Joe's tattoos are completely unknown sites. He sells body space for advertising, like the now-obsolete SaveMarthaStewart.com. We asked him why. Check his explanation and a video with all his silly tattoos after the jump.

JD: Are they real?
Joe: Sure they are real
JD: But are they permanent or do you use disappearing tattoo ink?
Joe: Nope, they are all totally real.
JD: Why, why, why? WHY?
Joe: I actually like tattoos. I love these websites
JD: So tattoos of bland sites for life in exchange of a few seconds of publicity?
Joe: What' s so different? People tattoo dragons, skulls and all sorts of meaningless stuff on there bodies all day long. Getting a grownupgeek.com, shoemoney.com and digitialpoint.com tattoo is a positive thing.
JD...

This arm belongs to Joe Tamargo, marketing genius, delusional dimwit or both, I don't really know. Some people do tigers, toerhs Zune, some Nintendo and even Windows crashes, but Joe tattoos are completely unknown sites —he sells body space for advertising, like the now-obsolete SaveMarthaStewart.com. We asked him why.

JD: Are they real?
Joe: Sure they are real
JD: But are they permanent or do you use disappearing tattoo ink?
Joe: Nope, they are all totally real.
JD: Why, why, why? WHY?
Joe: I actually like tattoos. I love these websites
JD: So tattoos of bland sites for life in exchange of a few seconds of publicity?
Joe: What' s so different? People tattoo dragons, skulls and all sorts of meaningless stuff on there bodies all day long. Getting a grownupgeek.com, shoemoney.com and digitialpoint.com tattoo is a positive thing.
JD: Hrmm. Kind of a good point (although at least those have some kind of artist...