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...record labels may be weeping these days, but consumers' desire to rip and burn their favorite songs is ringing up sales for gearmakers and retailers...
Americans bought 635,000 digital-audio players last year, up from just a few thousand in 1999, according to the market-research firm NPDTechworld. Electronics retailers sold 10.4 million CD burners (half of them installed in PCs), a 50% increase over 2000. Computer makers increasingly market their machines as rip-and-burn ready. Come June, you won't even need a PC to do the job. A firm called QPS is launching the first portable CD burner, called Q007, that copies directly from a CD player...
...genuine rapture of mind-expanding substances, as well as the hopeless abyss that usually follows prolonged abuse? True, a few sharpies?William Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, maybe Terry Southern?have managed to pull it off. But most drug memoirs are pretty much alike?either they're heated Hunter S. Thompson rip-offs packed with hackneyed hallucinations (bats, lizards) and heavily-punctuated (!!!!) rants, or languid diaries from naive dopers whose dreamy visions seem as dangerous as an overdose of marshmallows...
...some heroes have that all-important mass appeal. What makes, say, Wolverine infinitely more attractive than Mr. Fantastic? I posed this question to a few diehard fans and they pretty much focused on the samething: the superpower. It has to be spectacular. What guy doesn’t want rip-roaring brawn, the ability to heal himself and 12-inch retractableclaws? On the other hand, Mr. Fantastic can-what, stretch himself...
...RIP 'N' ROLL It used to be that when you heard a song you liked, you had to go to your computer to make a digital copy. No more. Just plug the PoGo! RipFlash ($198) into the headphone jack or Line-Out of any music system (CD player, radio, tape deck), and RipFlash's software will convert the song into an MP3 file on the fly, as it is playing. Don't forget to buy the recording, however. Musicians need to make a living too. SPY RAM James Bond would have loved this crafty little item. Targus' Go-Anywhere...