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So apparently, the category logic, or lack thereof, of the App Store extends to the rest of the iTunes Store as well.

On the iTunes Store if you look at the category of music labeled Albums Under $7 you will find the Maroon 5 album The B-Side Collection.  However, if you look at the category of music labeled Albums Under $9, you will not find the Maroon 5 album.

If an album is under $7 it would seem to me that it is also under $9.

This so doesn’t make any sense.

As I keep browsing the App Store to find more interesting applications, I find my self wondering exactly what criteria Apple is using to place the various applications in each category.

It’s not the actual application category or sub-category that I find strange, but the generic categories:

1. All iPhone Applications
2. All iPod Touch Applications
3. All Free Applications
4. New

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I found this really cool moon photo at the AstroMeeting.

I love all the detail that he goes into about taking the photo.

This morning, as I have for the couple of days, I checked the App Store in iTunes for new applications for my 8GB iPhone 3G.  I noticed that when I sorted the new applications by release date that the NYTimes application showed a release date of July 16, 2008.  I thought that it was odd since I know I got that application on the first day of the 3G release.

Turns out that it is an updated version, however when clicking the Check for Updates link in Applications section of my iTunes library I got the following dialog box:

So apparently the update check mechanism in iTunes doesn’t work.  I hope that they get this fixed soon.  Even better would be an e-mail notification that a new version of the application is available.

There is an AP story out about a Minnesota college student attempting to sell his vote on eBay. He is being charged with a felony under an 1893 law that makes it a crime to sell your vote in Minnesota.

Seems to me that if the teenager is going to be charged and prosecuted for selling his vote, then maybe there needs to be some investigation of the politicians while they are at it.  How many of them could be guilty of violating the spirit, if not the letter, of the same law?