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    Ecost -- Refurbed (Official Sony-USA) MDR-V900HD Headphones-$89.99 + Shipping

    --Though I'll remind anyone who's purchased eCost's Platinum membership in the last year that shipping for these will be free.  Of course, no taxes.   Clearance Countdown: Sony Studio Monitor Headphones With 50mm Drivers - Black - MDRV900HD  ...
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    Sennheiser HD600s - eCost - $249.99

    I got some HD650s from eCost a few weeks ago, briefly on discount.  They were just fine: came with a box and everything, and were significantly cheaper than any other source on the web. Share and enjoy.  ...
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    You look a 'mite peaked.

    Go gitchoo yur USDA recommended daily supplement of fine poetry! A Veritable Pharmacopeia of Fine Verse My contribution--the zyzygy-thingee--is enriched with healthful blastoids. 'Guaranteed to put hair on your palms.
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    Asking a Favor of a Member in Continental Europe

    Hi! I have just made an Ebay purchase from a seller who will ship to me but who has refused to accept Paypal. I am seeking a member with good feedback would would be willing to accept a Paypal payment and make a Euro transfer to the seller's bank account. I would not only be very grateful for...
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    Help with Setting Up Older Pro Mono Power Amps?

    ...or a speaker by fooling around with them. Each amplifier seems to have three pairs of screw-secured wire outputs. From left to right, they are **HI - LO||COM - + (over AMP)||25V - 70V**. Here are my very poor guesses. I'm hoping to use each amp as a monoblock to power a single speaker...
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    Another Christmas Classic

    Some things about the season are timeless. The epiphantic mystery that the God would become human and submit to birth in poverty is one. This parody of Tom Waits and Peter Murphy caroling "Christmas Sucks" is, perhaps, another. A Little Holly, A Little Ivy, and a Hunka-hunka-burnin' Wassail...
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    What Kids Think--It's Just Dismaying

    ...there are quite a few students--they're required to write analyses of opposing opinions on a controversial issue towards the end of the course--who *alarm me*, or *make me very worried*, or, more frankly, scare the bejeezus out of me because they are not only hard-core ideologues, but they...
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    What are the Most Boring, Over-used Motifs in Current Pop Music?

    ...championed by college radio. But there was another crew that essentially created themselves for the benefit of the college radio audience. They *sounded* kinda new and edgy, but really only enough so that the frat boys could play it at their parties without dealing with music that sounded...
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    If You Could Choose Two Different Country-music Musicians/Composers to Write Songs about Your Life. . . .

    . . . who would those two musicians or composers be? A group can count as a 'musician/composer'. It can be anybody from the birth of Southern popular standards (Steven Foster), to the inception of recorded Country (the Carter Family), to the most teflon-coated Nashville pop-whore stealing...
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    A Poker Hand Hierarchy for Press Victim Stories

    Oh, the heartlessness of it all! Quote: Now, had a 98-year-old grandfather reportedly climbed into the same basket and soared into the same skies, the fright would not have been as large. Oh, CNN would have broken from its regularly scheduled programming to cover it and so would have...
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    Eagerly Seeking Recommendation for Small Mic - 1/4" Jack

    I need a microphone for Skype, and perhaps for doing very simple voice recordings. I've got an old E-MU pci souncard set that is working (I figured out Patchmix finally). At the moment I'm outputting to my M^3 amp via the daughter card's 2x 1/4" mono analogue outs. I'm looking for a mic...
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    Fairy Tale of New York: The Mysterious Dylan Christmas Cover-album

    Here's the Observer review. Heeeh--it's not cynical kitch if you're doing for charity, man! **[In C#] Weeek-waah-waah-wonk!** Yeeah, man, I know what you're thinkin'. "Bob, you don't look like no Santee Claus." Well, I'm just lettin' you know, it's Christmas on the Inside, and thet's...
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    Shout-out to Members Who Read Poetry!!

    -And shouter-out to everybody who writes and performs poetry! -And shoutest-out-of-all to everybody who not only writes and performs her/his poetry but who reads other people's poems!!! Who are yez? Who are you reading? What are you writing? Inquiring minds want to know.
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    Dead Deer in Clown Suit Left on Iowa Porch

    Link That's what happens to woodland creatures who don't return rented costumes. SCOTUS Justice Scalia commented that this "obivious reference to Leoncavallo's Paggliachi" was "spirited," but still not as impressive as a bullfight or the sacrament of Holy Orders.
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    In a Fight between Superman, Batman, and Duran Duran, Who Would Win?

    All these threads about band lineups have got me thinking similar but slightly more existential imponderables. So is it or or Yeah, I know. Easy question, Duran Duran would kick both their asses. But I mean seriously if you got to tag-team with Superman, don't you...
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    What does a student buy for $29.99? --Windows!

    Cheap as chips? What will you do with your $29.99 (or roughly four hours of post-tax campus employment drudgery)? --Two tickets at the Cineplex to see Jennifer's Body! --Fritos for the entire frat house! --Downpayment on ground-effects for your Kia! --One month's access to unlimited pirate...
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    Stanley Fish on Intellectual Hubris

    ...Faust)--nearly all agreed--what had been an originally perfected knowledge had deteriorated over the centuries. The task of learned people was to *recover* truth that had been lost. That's why it was understood to be a Re-formation and, later, a period of Re-naissance. Nobody thought to...
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    Love Lost But Not Hopeless: The Fruit Bats' _Ruminant Band_

    ...the "man who lives in the sun [who's] got it out for everyone." So, says Johnson's cheery moral, you live and die alone. We all live and die alone. *But* we have the satisfaction of knowing with wisdom that it's a universal predicament: "we're not alone" in experiencing the loneliness of life...
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    I scream for icecream!

    Classic Polish Cinema Promotional Posters Where's Shelly Duvall when you need to get that Eskimo Pie!
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    Chalk versus Cheese

    We've come close to reaching consensus, but the Deathmobile has not yet reached ramming speed. I invite you to ponder this imponderable: or Tell us how you really feel.
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    Your Daily Dose of Postmodern Feline Combinatoriality

    Well worth listening to. I've rededicated myself to getting the web-monkeys of The Motley Fool and Gamespot Forums to author The Sound and the Fury. Cory Arcangel's re-creation of Arnold Schoenberg's Three Piano Pieces, op. 11, edited from YouTube's sub-culture of piano-playing cats. All 170...
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    The Duckworth Lewis Method

    Sticky Wickets It's the jolliest, most effervescent lp of a melancholic, depressive, world-recessive summer. It's an earnest homage to The Village Green Preservation Society. It's one part ELO, one part Beach Boys, one part "Wichita Lineman." It's fin de siecle, bravely observing the twilight...
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    Imagining a Headfi Coup d'Etat on Etsy

    ...Stockholm. The thing is, Etsy is a 'crafty' place flooded with handmade stationery and jewelry, but it is open to every sort of craft and crafts*person*. And here we are in the Interweb equivalent of the basement garage, engorged with keen-eyed DIYers with amazing designs and down-to-earth...
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    Best Friend & Boyfriend -- Both Well Trained

    Athletic, Compliant, Smiling One sleeps in the bed and has cold feet. One gets a treat when he's good and the rolled-up newspaper when he's bad.
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    Folk to Punk on the Lower-East Side: 58-76 - A performance history

    ...and a little informed. However, it does indeed attest to the risks parents take when they don't provide their attention-deficit-disordered kids with adequate doses of Ritalin. Your kids may ** A. grow up to be seminal punk rockers. B. end-up on Youtube singing "The Amphetamine Blues."
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