>>Oh, I have no problem with iPods. I have one myself. With all the long flights I've been taking lately, it really comes in handy ... I love listening to it on an airplane. But I just don't see myself walking/biking around city streets with music stuck in my ears. That just seems weird to me. But then, I never joined the craze of jogging/running/exercising with music either, so maybe it's just me.
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>To me it's pretty much the same like music in the car, just with a different vehicle (feet, pedals?). Manhattan actually looks like a completely different movie when you tune out most of the noise and insert your own musical background.

And if you find yourself above 110th street after 9pm you might as well put on the soundtrack from just about any hitchcock movie; you're not going to hear the muggers anyway, so you might as well have something appropriate to listen to... <g>