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Have seen him speak, read much online and buzzed around his forums, but yeah this is the first book. Have Greatest Show on Earth also but haven't gotten to it yet. Have any recommendations? Have to get to Harris' and Hitchens' latest too. Kinda back to a New Atheists mood lately.

Finding constant The Wire references interesting. It shows up again in discussing WikiLinks and governments... Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy;

Dawkins has come up in conversation a few times lately, so...

If you're using a local network, what about running SlimServer/SqueezeCenter/Squeezebox Server without the Squeezebox?

Article to keep in mind next time you ship: Shipping Company Reviews Best Package Shipping Company - Popular Mechanics

Thanks Dinny for the test. Yeah, this direction is partially about making playback simple for the GF, so similar use case. Lovin' AirPlay myself though.

Anyone pick up the Sam Cooke Live at the Copa 24/88.2 album HDTracks has been advertising along with the Jarrett?

icBerlins! are a nice balance between frames with presence and physical lightness. Plus they nicely implode when you fall asleep with them and roll over. Love mine. What I'm considering next week though is ridiculous.

Probably a typo, but if sic-fi isn't a genre, it should be. Either way you take sic [sic]. And older I get the less I can deal with contacts too. Glasses shopping this and next week.

Looks like their new O6HD has a separate headphone DAC. What would be the point of that? Olive Media O6HD Music Server Announced - Reviews and News from Audioholics

Shure SE420 Earphones $150 - dealmac.com 1pm et

Complete National Geographic PC/Mac $35 - dealmac.com

Falling in love with AirPlay (with various interweb stations). While people are testing, mind if I ask current model AppleTV owners if audio AirPlay streaming with iPhone or iPad keeps an interface going on the iDevice (normal iTunes, etc.) not blank out (with simple controls) as video streaming appears to do in Apples AirPlay vids? Trying to decide between an AppleTV or another AirPort Expess and for this use may not have a TV turned on when playing music.

If someone doesn't mind one generation back, $89 Kindles on Amazon [Lightning Deals] at 9am PT this morning. http://reviewhorizon.com/2010/11/amazon-black-friday-deal-kindle-2-for-only-89/

No problem here with Pico DAC/amp. In fact AirPlay now identifies the output as 'USB Audio DAC.' Seems more support, not less. And speaking of, AirPlay is great. May need a third AirPort Express now.

Strength in flexibility Grasshopper.

And what do you know? Two new albums yesterday - London Symphony Orchestra: Mahler: Symphony No 6 Cara Dillon: Live at the Grand Opera House Available as 16 or 24-bit FLAC and 16-bit ALAC.

Apple will release iOS 4.2 today at 10:00 a.m. PST

Yeah, I've been a fan of it for a couple years. Interesting they've released 1-2 albums a month, until last month. Not sure if there is a change going on. Nice that about a year ago they've opened it up to downloading most previous albums. 24/48 though. Know of no other service.

Yeah great deal. I actually have the set, but would have bought a second as a gift. Pretty nice sounding and although not the large shift of the Beatles mono set, refocuses the voice/harmonica/guitar nicely. And a couple of the albums are of course killers.

Damn, wish I got in on that. Who's brave/stupid? Dice Electronics Tube Amplifier System $97 - dealmac.com

A year later and more changes in the same direction... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/18/business/media/18emusic.html

Have a great one.

Haven't been a huge fan of Wings previously and don't have a 16 bit copy to compare so not much to say. Sounds quite nice, but...

The Complete Fran Warren. Picked up at library. Bazookas.