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Printed up lots of shipping labels!

Apple has competing imperatives here. They make their money selling devices, so they're usually in the biz of driving content prices down, as that makes the devices more attractive. With the iPad, though, the first order of business is to get as much content onto it as possible, hence you see them actually helping the providers fatten their margins here. As soon as the platform is fully established, that worm will turn.

Agreed. I expect we will see this price point erode very quickly.

Nah, he was just cross-eyed at the time. Oops.

Definitely the 701s. The best thing about them is how easy they are to drive.

Also , best (non) iPad report so far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4

P-ray. Not the-Ray.

Thin Lizzy -- Jailbreak

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Royksopp -- Junior

Interesting bit of content on the ebook front. Amazon, Macmillan: an outsider's guide to the fight - Charlie's Diary

Tears For Fears -- Songs From The Big Chair Vinyl.

And on reflection, if you are going to call yourself that, how the hell did you get away with having the bridge of your biggest hit be: "I'm going to come without waaaaarning!"

Plus the politics, leetle beet?

Cock Robin -- Cock Robin Vinyl. Everybody loves 80s power Cock.

I'm just at a loss as to why this apparently grinds your gears so much, Beefy? No one around these parts has made any extravagant claims for Amarra other than that it definitely does something to the sound that some of us like and some of us don't. Dreadhead couldn't stand it at CanJam, as I recall, but he could certainly hear the effect. To me it's just a straight preference issue, rather than some stereotypical audio horseshit like claiming to be able to detect the sonic differences between two types of sheathing over the same IC cable.

Something something suck him dry something something.

Fine Young Cannibals -- The Raw And The Cooked Vinyl. Damn this is a good record.

Boom. Head(phone)shot.

-- Stephenson's "Snow Crash" -- William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy -- Gene Wolfe, "Book Of The New Sun" -- Michael Swanwick, "Stations Of The Tide" -- Iain Banks, "Consider Phlebas" -- Dan Simmons, The Hyperion Cantos -- M. John Harrison, "Viriconium" -- Robert Silverberg, "Lord Valentine's Castle" -- Tim Powers, "Last Call." -- Joe Haldeman, "The Forever War" -- James Morrow, "This Is The Way The World Ends" -- Ken MacLeod's Fall Revolution series. I could go on and on but know that others will...

Bolzano Villetri Campanili Series Torre omnidirectionals. Here in surround configuration with center channel and subwoofer.

Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! I like Amarra with the Ayre, too. No idea what it actually does, but the audible effect -- to me -- is to ameliorate the slight harshness of digital source material and to an extent ape the more organic sound I get from the pure analog chain. Minus surface noise etc. tl;dr -- it's well smoove, innit?

A Flock Of Seagulls -- Listen Vinyl.

Bring a warm coat, gloves and a hat and do the Freedom Trail. The Freedom Trail Foundation The NE Aquarium is cool if you like sea life. Have lunch in the North End and get a cannoli from Mike's or Modern afterward. Wander around Harvard Yard. Meet me for beer.

What sort of things do you like to do when you travel?