Several great ideas

Singing along to: Once soundtrack, Gold

I have a number of great ideas that I've been meaning to share with the Internet, in the hopes that someone more well-connected/more motivated than I will steal them and implement them. Such as:

A cookie dough candy bar. The inspiration for this came from the cookie dough Balance Bars I occasionally have in lieu of lunch. Here's the thing: there aren't any practical, dignified options for people who like cookie dough. Sure, you can eat it straight out of the Pillsbury tube, and that's delicious, but it also screams "romantic comedy, right after the Hot Jerk breaks the Girl-Next-Door Heroine's heart and makes her doubt her faith in humanity, so she washes down the bitterness with cookie dough, her Sassy Minority Girlfriend, and Casablanca, while we all yell at her to just get with the Hot Hero already so we can live vicariously through their bliss while we too scarf down raw cookie dough." Even when you're happy with your life, it's hard not to feel a little pathetic when you eat cookie dough like that.

The other cookie dough option is cookie dough ice cream, which is delicious, but not so great to stick in your tote bag for a mid-afternoon pick-me-up. Which is where my candy bar idea comes in: chocolate coating, layer of crispy cookie (like in a Kit-Kat), layer of cookie dough. Seriously, with the right name, this thing would market itself.

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Attaching the same song to multiple albums in iTunes. It has always annoyed me that, as far as I know, iTunes requires that I either have multiple copies of the same song, or incomplete albums. Both options irritate my inner librarian. Look, it should not be that hard to tell iTunes that, for example, "Where the Streets Have No Name" belongs on Joshua Tree and Best of 1980 - 1990, and to have it remember which track it is on which album. If I can remember these things, why can't a computer program? I want to be able to listen to a complete album (in the correct order, obviously), but I also don't want two or three copies of the same song on my "All U2, All the Time" smart playlist. (Can I tell you how much I love iTunes' smart playlist feature? So much!) I can't be the only one who feels this way, so make it happen, iTunes!

[Now, it's possible that iTunes already has this feature and I haven't found it yet, or that it's in the new version of iTunes that I haven't bothered downloading yet. If this is the case, I would love to know. It is also possible--probable, even--that there is some other music player software out there that has this feature and many others, and it is so much better than iTunes and everyone who listens to music should use it. Fine, but I'm not interested in new software right now.]

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My great ideas, once I lay them out like that, are not very impressive. Nevertheless, I like them, so get cracking, Internet! Steal them! Make them happen! You don't even need to give me credit, although I would appreciate a free case of those candy bars, once they hit stores.