Give chance a chance

Apple's new "cool gadget" is called the iPod Shuffle. Meant for those with wallets on the Atkins diet, this MP3 player is uber-cool. Basically the size of a pack of Doublemint, it holds either 120 or 240 songs (depending on if you shell out $99 or $149).

The unique part of Apple's "Flash-based" player, which sets it apart from the dull, drab, and otherwise lemming-like world of your typical small MP3 player, is that what you listen to is left up to chance (or Providence, if that is your theology, but we'll save that for another time).

You plug in your iShuffle, load up your choice of songs (or let it randomly choose the songs for you that will fit on your size player), and off you go. And NOW here comes the cool part (if you haven't already fainted from super-wicked coolness already)...

Flip the setting for shuffle- and off you go. Absolutely no idea what song you will hear next, or after that, or heck- even what songs you have loaded up! There is no display, no feedback to tell you what songs you have on there. For the faint of heart, you can CHOOSE what songs to put on there, and you can CHOOSE to play them in order- but isn't it so paradoxical for him with free-will to be SO predictable?

So, as Apple says, Give chance a chance. Plop down a mere $99 and let the gods of the MP3 world fill your heart with merry songs- randomly.

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