tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post116277865389795132..comments2023-12-31T19:34:14.853-05:00Comments on Dymaxion World: Yes.johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09690430991814528863noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-1162827238531631572006-11-06T10:33:00.000-05:002006-11-06T10:33:00.000-05:00I'd say the one thing that puts ipods above walkma...I'd say the one thing that puts ipods above walkman's is podcasting (which, as has been noted, you don't need an "ipod" for, any MP3 player will do, so really "ipod" is just used here for "MP3 player" the way "walkman" was for portable tape deck (despite the fact that "Walkman" is a Sony trademark).<BR/><BR/>A lot of the time, if you see me listening to my ipod, I'm not listening to music at all. I'm listening to the latest CNN news update, or the top downloaded stories from the New York Times, or last night's edition of the News Hour with Jim Leher, or this week's episode of "Real Time" with Bill Mahr (which I can't get on T.V., since it's HBO, but I can get for my ipod).<BR/><BR/>It's true that the "revolutionary" nature of the ipod is WAY over-hyped. But it is more than a "thingy that plays music". I spend almost as much time listening to podcasts, and watching video podcats, on my ipod as I do listening to music, and I think I'm getting a much broader sense of the news of the day, than I did when all I had was T.V. and radio, and I was a slave to their broadcast schedule.Lord Kitchener's Ownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08348376638620272991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-1162786934822943612006-11-05T23:22:00.000-05:002006-11-05T23:22:00.000-05:00Olaf,Tragically, I am a giant dork. It hasn't sto...Olaf,<BR/><BR/>Tragically, I am a giant dork. It hasn't stopped me from finding a mate, because leet female dorks pwn teh hottness, but it is true nonetheless.<BR/><BR/>(My GF - sitting a few feet away - momentarily tried to defend herself from charges of dorkiness, surrendered, and went back to writing fan fiction.)johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690430991814528863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-1162785716380020362006-11-05T23:01:00.000-05:002006-11-05T23:01:00.000-05:00John,Cool it on your technology updates... you sou...John,<BR/><BR/>Cool it on your technology updates... you sound like a dork. By the way, I've proposed a global warming argument that applies to the Stern Report adherents and skeptics.. it's <A HREF="http://prairiewrangler.blogspot.com/2006/11/solution-to-global-warming-fix-it.html" REL="nofollow">pure brilliance</A>.Olafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12434267803807108634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9560953.post-1162784770576915992006-11-05T22:46:00.000-05:002006-11-05T22:46:00.000-05:00It's just a thingy that plays music. I don't under...It's just a thingy that plays music. I don't understand the hype about it. I use mine to amuse me in the car on the way to work (no other way to listen to hip hop until society goes more mainstream with it). But to call it some kind of cultural icon is iconoclastic.<BR/><BR/>People are always amazed at the new technology. First it was $5,000 DVDs. Now they're $29.99 at Wal*Mart. And just wait. The next technology will render our DVD collection worthless. Just like the next music invention will render the iPod a quaint relic of a forgotten era.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com