Damn you Apple. Always tempting me with your shiny, shiny toys. Why must you torment me?

So by now you've probably heard about the Apple TV. It's Apple's new set-top box which connects to your TV. You stream video to it from iTunes and it stores it on it's hard disk and plays it back whenever you like. Very groovy on it's own.

But then, people started hacking it.

Now, with a little tweaking you can do all kinds of great stuff with it. You can install the full version of Mac OS X on it. You can enable SSH so you can log into it via the command line. You can make it into a compact, low-cost webserver. You can install additional codecs on it like DivX or Xvid or whatever else you can find for QuickTime. And once you do that, you can play pretty much whatever you want on it, legally purchased or otherwise. It becomes a versatile, sub-PC.

And that just makes me want it MORE.

Apple is a vile temptress. A vile, sexy temptress....