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...Back when Sonos launched, I complained about the price of its ZonePlayers, which receive and play music at each location, synchronizing with each other when instructed. The original ZonePlayer 100 had a built-in amplifier so you could connect speakers directly, but many people didn't use the amp and instead connected the ZonePlayer to their home theater system or stereo. Not long ago, Sonos addressed this by releasing the smaller ZonePlayer 80 - everything but the amp, for $150 less. Now you can get a ZonePlayer 80 and the $400 iPod-like Controller for a total of $750. With Rhapsody...
...London bombing on July 7, 2005, that was pretty much it until this summer. I live in lower Manhattan and my wife works in a building overlooking Ground Zero. So I want to know when something's really up and not worry that I'm getting bamboozled to amp the President's approval rating...
...reference for weary travelers-- the earnest, rock-hewn realism of the Raymond Carver school gave way to a more fluid, molten hyperrealism. The widespread conviction that truth has become stranger than fiction triggered a kind of strangeness inflation, an arms race of exaggeration, wherein novelists satirically augment and amp up and overclock their fictions in an attempt to keep up with the sheer implausibility of real life...
...Garzaie, 21, invited him to sit on a rug spread on the floor and dine with a bunch of Saudi students by digging into communal pans of rice and meat. Other nights there have been jam sessions; al-Garzaie turns off his PlayStation, plugs his oud into the amp and leads his fellow Saudis in songs from home. "Already," says Ison, "I've learned so much that I never thought I would, even at college...
...show’s whole point was to further the careers of the two bandmates. The crowd poured in heavily, including some sadistic parent armed with an infant strolling up the backstage ramp. The baby made its presence known later, as looped crying began to thunder out of the amp wall. Opener Sunburned Hand of the Man was taking the stage. As the baby cried on and on, the Boston natives trickled out, until all nine members had donned instruments, electronics boards, microphones, and drum sticks. It was a motley crew of pseudo-lumberjacks while the keyboardist donned an Animal...