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Entry Posted August 27, 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/26/technology/circuits/26ipod.html Weirdly-written piece on the iPod’s shuffle function: “Dan Cedarholm, a Web designer in Salem, Mass., insists that his iPod has a predilection for the indie punk band Fugazi. Even though he only has two of the band’s albums stored on his ‘vintage’ 5-gigabyte device, the band seems to dominate his iPod to a degree wildly disproportionate to the amount of space it occupies on his player’s memory, he said. ‘It is truly bizarre,’ said Mr. Cedarholm, who no longer likes Fugazi.” Who no longer likes Fugazi! 17:06

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KaBlog (www.kevinabarnes.com):
… by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, etc.). Some iPod users have claimed, almost since the first generation iPods rolled off the assembly line, that the iPod Shuffle mode was less than 100% random. The New York Times had anarticle about the perceived lack of randomness back in 2004 …

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