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Professor iPod Discusses Device's Social Impact

Posted by simoniker on from the not-really-his-name dept.

PurdueGraphicsMan writes "There's an interesting story over at Wired News, involving an interview with UK university professor Dr. Michael Bull, apparently the 'world's leading expert on the social impact of personal stereo devices,' according to The New York Times. The piece also mentions: 'Bull, a lecturer in media and culture at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, is the author of 'Sounding out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life', a book Bull calls the 'definitive treatment' of the impact of the Sony Walkman and its descendants.'"

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  1. $400 is too much for a personal stereo by Simonetta · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    Last week at BestBuy I found a CD player for $20.00 that reads MP3 files on CD-Rs and CD-RWs.

    I got one and it plays my 15 cent CD-Rs with ten hours of music just fine. (although slow to start MP3 disks).

    I had to replace to weird AC adapter connector though, because it was impossible to find a cheap AC adapter that fit the custom connector on it.

    1. Re:$400 is too much for a personal stereo by Bombcar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      According to Me, expert on the world, iTunes burns CDs just fine.

      Though, to tell the truth, iWouldn't mind an iPod at all. But iDo mind forking out so much of my money. But if anyone wants to give me one, just let me know........

      (Why oh why won't Apple give free ones to the Apple Developer subscribers?)

      --
      Fellowship 9/11
  2. hot iPod sex by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my girlfriend can fit two of them up her pussy. it's red-hot ipod sex.

    we're going to see just how many we can stuff in there before she shrieks in pain. then she'll let me see if I can put a broom handle up through her pussy and out her mouth. "CHOKE ME FROM BELOW BABY!" she says.

  3. Yay! Mark me as offtopic if you will - I can spare by IainMH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the karma. But I have been on slashdot for over 4 years now and this is the first story I have seen about my old University.

    Point of interest:
    One of our Profs got the (joint) Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for Buckminsterfullerene - the third form of solid carbon. My final year project was based on the stuff. Woo!

    Yay to Sussex - it is a lovely place and some of the happiest times of my life. Any campus with 8 seperate bars has to be a cool place to spend a few years.