Rants and Ramblings: random commentary about culture, media, politics, technology and whatnot.

all in the name

My coworkers and I have turned our iTunes library titles into a form of social commentary and “silent” protest.

iTunes allows users on the same subnet to listen to music from each others’ music libraries. In their preferences, users can give their libraries identifying names. In my office, we change our library names so often that we lose track of whose library is whose.

Our taste in library names ranges from smartass commentary on current events to random wordplay to snippets of conversation taken wholly out of context. It’s gotten to the point where the changing of library titles becomes a sort of conversation in itself, and where we’ll interrupt each other mid-sentence in “real” conversation to point out just-uttered choice phrases that would make good library titles.

Some recent titles:
• “Eye of newt, essence of ennui”
• “The queen sleeps quietly.”
• “*snore*”
• “Everything you say sounds insincere.”
• “What is this workflow thing?”
• “Installing programs is considered work. ;)”