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iPod More Popular Than Beer?
prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."
There are plenty of very good (and close mainstream, pun intended)
beers from the US these days. Avery, New Belgium, and Victory breweries
are some of my favorites. (beware the Golden Monkey)
Of course, most of those brew English or Belgium style,
*shudder*so props to the originating countries for showing the way.
I just wish I could convert more of my 'NASCAR' type friends
from 'Bud' and the 'Silver Bullet'. When they come over and peruse
my fridge full of tasty, bottled treats they give a blank look
and whine: but where is the Coors?
And iPod's also suck. Overrated electronic devices, becoming a fad because of people's lack of knowledge regarding mp3 download services/devices. I don't approve of corperations[sic] luring stray unknowledgable[sic] people in, and locking them down with their shit proprietary formats of mp4, and m4a.
Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns