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[rhyll]

"my lj"? how odd.

i played around with my settings. i think my page is pretty ugly right now!

more excitingly - i just bought an ipod! for $199! how nifty!

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[boxer-the-horse.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, It wasn't a throwaway comment! I meant it, but the poking out tongue was to denote the tone of not being all 'hey narc, this is not a place for your hate crimes!!!!' on yr ass.

I think if we fight this one out, I might win. The only forseeable challenge i can think of is that the production of CDs is environmentally problematic and seeing as mp3s are digital files they don't require packaging.

[alexmoon.livejournal.com]

You will not win. While i think there are certainly problems inherent in iPods (elements of technology fetishism; music as an individual, rather than group, experience; personal music players shut one off from the world somewhat if you wear them all the time), i would argue that, as far as products go, they are relatively innocuous:
1) You can hack them to be powered by a hand-crank (which i will attempt to do, if at all possible), and
2) Electronic storage is far less wasteful, especially if you don't upgrade your electronic equipment every few years. (Also, if you decline to upgrade frequently to niftiest-possible-tech then you are also declining technology fetishism's hyper-consumerism.)

Also: i need some kind of recording device to use for interviews while i'm in India. An iPod seemed like the best option, because it can store so much information at once.

Really, Jarrad. I hope you're not seriously holding out the hope of winning this one. We both know how arguments between us go.

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