This is the stupidest name for a product ever:

iHam on iRye for iTunes

But it's a great product. It's actually a trio of three apps that lets you control iTunes on one computer from another computer. Why, you might ask, would you want to do such a thing? Well, right now I'm listening to mp3 files playing through iTunes on my tower computer, but I can sit on the couch and control it from my laptop with wireless connectivity enabled. Fantastic. And it's free. (Donations are accepted, and I'm very strongly thinking about it, especially if it will help them work out the few bugs I've found.)

However, I'm also looking at some other possible solutions, namely this article over at O'Reilly's MacDevCenter. It's about controlling iTunes over the web using a Perl module. Unfortunately, it looks like I might have to run Apache as an actual user instead of nobody. Why, you might ask, would I want a web interface, when I have this spanky free product that does the same thing? Because I'm interested in running a small social experiment. I'm thinking about setting up a small web page to allow the world at large to control my music selection while I'm at work. I think it would be terribly amusing, and I'd also like to see if I ever made it through an entire song. The world wouldn't get to hear any of the selections, just inflict them on me and my co-workers.