Elthar pointed me at this interesting page with pictures that were drawn while under the influence of LSD. Some of the descriptions as it goes along are pretty funny.

These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD — part of a test conducted by the US government during it’s dalliance with psychotomimetic drugs in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject is the medico that jabbed him.

Okay, after a very boring bit about iLive, 730,000 iPods were sold last quarter (wow). Sold 2 million since they came out. 10GB becomes a 15GB at the same price. New headphones. And a new Ad. Now talking about flash memory mp3 players. Announces the iPodMini. 4GB of storage. Stores 1,000 songs. 1/2 inch thick. $249. looks nice, size of a business card, looks like a mini iPod. Too expensive IMHO. I could see paying $149-$199, but not $249. Available in Feb.

New iMovie. Found ways to make it even better. You can trim clips in the timeline. Can use iSight to bring in video. I wouldn’t mind this for sending video letters to my nephew and sister. It would be quite slick. And iDVD is updated too, though I don’t care much about it since I can’t burn DVDs. Though now you can run iDVD on a machine w/out a DVD burner and then bring your project to one with a burner and burn it there.

New app that is part of iLife called GarageBand. Audio app for the masses. Digitally mix up to 64 tracks. 1000 digital loops included(Soundtrack), over 200 audio affects. You can plug your guitar right into the mac. Software Instruments. John Meyer came out to demo the app. Pretty slick. Though this demo is taking too long and it’s getting boring.

Overall, some neat stuff, but nothing really amazing in this keynote. I was hoping for more.

Announced the G5 XServe. Shipping in Feb. Beginning at $2,999.

Announced a new XServe RAID. Nice. Works with Windows and two versions of linux. Very nice. Starting at $3,999 for 1TB.

Next up iTunes. Have sold 30 million songs since 4/28/2003. They have 70% of the legal download market (and he says, feels nice to be above 5% in something). The top spender at the music store has spent 29,500. Talks about audiobooks, they’ve sold over 50,000 since October. Some nice linkups with AOL. They’re going to have the billboard charts downloadable by year. Pepsi and Apple giving away 100,000,000 songs starting in Feb.

Lost my stream and now I guess they only have 56k streams open now. That sucks.

He’s talking about iPhoto and new features in it. I missed the beginning, but it looks like a lot of new features. You can also now share your photos with rendezvous.

Demo of Final Cut Express 2. Looks pretty cool. Now I need a machine with a DVD burner so I can make movies. $299, $99 for upgrade.

Office 2004 announced. Features demonstrated. Some neat stuff, like a kind of notepad app.

Steve’s back now, talking about how many apps are out. Everyone should switch to Panther if they haven’t already.

Talks about the G5 and the cluster at Virginia Tech. Shows a video about it.

(Still nothing real exciting… *YAWN*)

60,000 people watching the webcast of it. Asks the crowd to make noise when they like something.

The 20th anniversary of the Mac. Steve talks about when things were starting out and shows the original mac commercial (it’s still cool.

He’s talking about Panther. People love Expose (I know I do). Panther has done a huge success. 9.3Million OS X users, 40% of the Mac user base. Said the switch from OS 9 to OS X is ‘over’.

Final Cut Pro Express 2.0 being released. Optimized for Panther and the G5.

(More soon)

Since I’ve done this for the last few keynotes I figure I’ll do it again now. I’ll be updating things here a bit today. Much more than recently at least. Things look like they’re just about to start, they just asked people to turn off their cell phones.

Those wacky folks over at Landover Baptist talk about a new offer: Accept Jesus Christ as Your Lord and Savior and Get a Free PlayStation 2!

What is the theme for 2004 you ask? Bacon.

So I’ve just finished watching the last episode of Cardcaptor Sakura. It was definitely enjoyable to the end. But I wish they’d included some more stuff from the end of the story in the manga. I wonder if they ran out of time, or money, or what. I’ll check out the movie sometime next.