Headphones and hearing loss

Interesting read about hearing loss from listening to music with headphones. “…Hearing damage from headphones is probably more common than from loudspeakers, because many people exploit the acoustic isolation by listening at higher volumes.” So what they’re saying is that listening to music too loudly on headphones could cause hearing loss. Amazing. We really do…

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Amazon Gift Certificates at CoinStar: No fee

Link: Amazon Gift Certificates at CoinStar: No fee – Lifehacker. Ya know the machines at Kroger and other grocery machiens where you can turn in change and get cash for a fee. Well Amazon bought it and you can now turn in the change and not get charged as long as you get an Amazon…

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Windows Vista Product Editions Revealed

An interesting article outlining the different versions of vista that will be available upon release. There are going to be 7 different versions of it. So get ready for all that. And you thought it was difficult to figure out the difference between XP Home and Pro. read more | digg story

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Fall 2005 TV Schedule

Well, all I have to say is that it is a good thing I can record more than one show at a time because otherwise I would have to set multiple VCR’s to do the work for me while I watched shows. I was looking the other day at the schedule for the fall on…

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iTunes 5 features

Okay, last major post of the day. I upgraded to iTunes 5 Wednesday and have found good and bad things that correspond with the upgrade. Mostly good, but not completely. But it may just be my upgrade where the bad comes from. But the new features are as follows. Finally, iTunes adds the podcasts to…

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Lifehacker posts part 2

Alright, here is the second half of the Lifehacker posts of the week. Top Reasons I need an iPod Nano. Beat Procrastination with a dash. Picking a safe place to live. Garbage Soup. Confidence at work. Conversational writing rules. Listening to Pandora internet radio. Domain Name Hilarity. How to use In-Between time well. The Homework…

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Lifehacker posts part 1

Lifehacker is an awesome site. And I use information off of it quite frequently at this point. They have some really good posts. So I thought I would link some I thought were interesting. But there are a lot, so there is going to be two posts devoted to that cause there are a lot…

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Digg Items

iTunes 5.0 may have some little secrets hidden. Your iPod Nano can be any color you want. Build your own Hurricane online. Artist breakdown of how much they make on a CD versus a concert. CNet’s top 10 games of the past 10 years. Review of the iPod Nano. Paper Hack for personal organization. Play…

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Boing Boing and a couple of extras

I don’t really have a place to put this stuff, so I wanted to just stick it in its own post. A nice list of the top 10 new fall shows. I want to see 6 of them. Guess which ones. A 24 movie is on the way. Astrodome Lockdown report from the inside. Rape,…

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Movie stuff

Apparently no TV shows are sacred, instead you have to capitalize and make movies of the new shows to go along with the old show crap that has been put out this year. You can watch Cinderella on the big screen at El Capitan Theatre. Luxury abounds. I loved the Outsiders movie, mostly cause I…

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