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iPods Around the World

Posted by pudge on from the global-village dept.

Joey Patterson writes "Did you ever notice how well the Apple iPod always fits in with the local scenery, no matter where you take it? Well, ipodlounge.com has a photo gallery featuring 800+ photos of people and their iPods in various places around the world. Some of these pics are very cool (like this one, taken by the Kuwait water towers), while others are downright odd (such as this pic from Sierra Leone, Africa)." I just want a picture of an iPod on my desk. I have a camera ...

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  1. Why.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    why is ipodlounge.com running on IIS/5.0?

  2. Re:Does Billy have one? by discstickers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does anyone else find that picture highly disturbing?

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  3. Re:Just great looking! by qengho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    These things are blank looking, with a few sparse buttons....They all look equally boring.

    I think the term you're searching for is elegant:

    "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
  4. Re:Ubiquity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, before MP3s everyone was completely chatty at 8:45am on a weekday morning while riding public transportation.

    Get real. Our society has been becoming less and less social a long time before portable MP3 players hit the scenes.

    To counter-act anything that MP3 players have caused, cell phones have made us able to contact distant friends and relatives when we are doing mundane things like riding the bus.

  5. Re:Just great looking! by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: 2, Insightful

    *smacks head*

    Wow. You. Just. Don't. Get. It.

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