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\n Dowbrigade is considered an early adopter, at least among the crowd that
\n shops at K-Mart and nations belonging to the
\n Andean Pact. On Friday, still flush with the reflected glory of the Beantown
\n Boys in the World Series and a check from China for some editing work,
\n we finally bought an iPod, ending three years of unrequited techo-lust.<\/p>\n
What took us so long? Well, a teacher’s salary, for
\n one. But let’s not dwell on the past. We’ve joined the iPod
\n generation! The only thing that bothered us was that in all of the Apple
\n iPod ads we have seen, as well as most of the young, hip users on the
\n street, feature the device held loosely in one hand while the head nods
\n and the body gyrates wildly. Why hold the damn thing in your hand? Besides
\n setting yourself up for a snatch and grab, it seems to us immodest techno-exhibitionism.
\n A brief glimpse of those distinctive white earbuds peeking out of a collar
\n or sleeve would be so much sexier and classier. Besides, years of operating
\n in crowds composed of strange and often untrustworthy people has taught us to keep our hands
\n empty and available for action at all times.<\/p>\n
Be that as it may, as far as we can tell from reading
\n all of the attendant documentation, there is no REQUIREMENT that you
\n carry it in your hand. And we love having all of our extensive
\n and obscure music collection in the palm of our hand, or wherever. Once
\n we figured out how to connect it to our computer without erasing all
\n of the music already loaded (this took a while), we were off to the races.<\/p>\n
Now that we’ve gotten to know our new toy, we’ve got No, we are not thinking of packing the shell with some The Dowbrigade is considered an early adopter, at least among the crowd that shops at K-Mart and nations belonging to the Andean Pact. On Friday, still flush with the reflected glory of the Beantown Boys in the World Series and … Continue reading
\n to get our good friends Dave Winer<\/a> and Adam Curry<\/a> to teach us how to
\n turn our iPod into a weapon of war.<\/p>\n
\n of that HMX explosives gone missing in Iraq, or filing the brushed Titanium
\n back case to a razor’s edge. We are talking about a weapon of cultural
\n war, of media war, of paradigm war. The only real revolutions are in
\n the minds and hearts of those who believe in them. We are assembling
\n the arms of OUR revolution, and the iPod is one of them.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"