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...ridden, treble-enhanced Jam of the Week, I pit myself against the MC I have yet to meet through lyrics saturated with wordplay and allusions and urban imagery and political consciousness. I pump my fist when a colleague on stage instructs me to, roam sidewalks with a perennially playing walkman, love few things more than a huddle of cats dropping science to beatboxes and split cheap cigars open while listening to my newly-purchased Roots album (by the way, buy it now, it's truly ridiculous...

Author: By Andres A. Ramos, | Title: ETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING: The MC's Job, Apparently | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...found and loved this year. At the top of my chart is my pair of Bang & Olufsen Form 2 headphones ($100). As someone who commutes by rail and therefore needs to drown out the train shouters on their cellular phones, I lusted after this pair of headphones for my Walkman for years. Comfortable as velvet earmuffs, the Form 2s deliver a luscious, fat sound. Plus they keep me at the forefront of style: the sleek, flat headphones are in the Museum of Modern Art's collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favorite Things | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Walkman, the Mac, MTV and Nintendo helped too, but the cyberpunk novels--most notably Gibson's cyberspace epic Neuromancer--were clearly a formative influence on today's Gen X Silicon Valley sensibility. Sterling himself edited the seminal 1986 anthology Mirrorshades; his prologue became the de facto cyberpunk manifesto and remains, he ruefully admits, his most widely known work to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunk Spinmeister | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...been fighting back. But they're hardly in time. Scores of pirate MP3 sites have sprung up online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge was unimpressed: Until the case can be heard in court, Diamond is free to sell it. Of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downloadable Albums on Tap for 1999 | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...Walkman 1979, by Sony, from an idea by CEO Akio Morita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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