My car has a USB port for connecting the iPod. It's also got an audio input jack that I can connect to the headphone jack on my cell phone to listen to Pandora in the car, but that's kind of a pain to set up, so I usually only use it for long trips. (Listening to Pandora requires connecting two wires from the phone to the car, starting the Pandora app on the phone, and then adjusting the volume on both the phone and the car to get it right.)

The other crazy animal thing I have seen lately is this:

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I can't imagine having my apartment burn down, being able to see my cat through the window, and NOT being allowed to get my cat. Like, I serious might break in!

But they did save several cats, so that is good.

It's only within the past year or so that the cars I've rented while mine is in the shop have had an earphone jack for iPod usage. Which is irritating. I hate even a day of driving without my tunes.

Happily my last two phones have had standard audio output jacks, although I don't use Pandora on them anywhere near as much as I should.

I just got an "I love you! Come back!" message from noreply@message.myspace.com. Uh, I had a myspace account? And it thinks my name is Carla?

This actually seems very possible, since it looks like I set up a myspace email alias. Why do I do this?

I use a tape adapter to listen to my mp3 in the truck, but it's sort of cranky. And it's harder to find them these days when they break, too.

since it looks like I set up a myspace email alias. Why do I do this?

A secret identity so you can fight crime?

I have a CD player in the car, but I mostly listen to NPR. I have an ipod adapter that uses the radio for long trips. And even then, I often listen to downloaded NPR podcasts. t /geek

It looks like my profile has a myspace badge saying I joined before it was cool. I don't even know.

In LA I was never able to find a sliver of space in the FM spectrum to use a radio adapter in. Cassette adapter all the way.

In LA I was never able to find a sliver of space in the FM spectrum to use a radio adapter in.

Same thing for Chicago. But on long road trips, I could usually find blank spaces in the FM spectrum, but I usually had to find a new one every hour or so.

My stereo in my '94 Civic has a CD player, an earphone jack, an USB port, and bluetooth. Connecting my MP3 player to my radio wirelessly feels like living in the future. Mostly though I listen to stuff off of a flash drive hooked up to the USB port in the glovebox. I wouldn't mind having an SD slot too, but maybe that's overkill.

I have a tapedeck in my car, but it's pretty old. Still, that's how I play the iPod. I imagine those newfangled cars have that taken care of...

Here's what I dig about the iPod Touch: I hook it up to the car stereo, go to the video player, and can hit Play on a movie or TV show and listen to it. I find doing that with things I've already watched (The OC, for instance) to be very soothing. Seriously.