>>>>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.
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>>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>
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>"Above" is ok, "north of" is scary :).

Good distinction!