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The Sound of Shellac

The man credited with convincing the global consumers that it is worth the effort and money and environmental degradation to condense their music libraries onto a matchbook-sized (or somewhat larger) gadget has announced his retirement. While Facebook has made it common practice to make privacy and the confessional mode semi- or fully-public, iPods have conversely exported the pleasure of listening privately to recorded music into the public sphere. The casual hello and exchange of pleasantries; an alertness to oncoming steps and the ability to wait politely for a person to pass by; an awareness of the sounds of the city or the country: for many, or quaint and tiresome, even though they can sometimes be useful for survival. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald from September of last year bracingly sums up one ubiquitous aspect of Jobs’ legacy:

“Death by iPod is being blamed as a contributing factor to the 25 per cent rise in the number of pedestrian fatalities in New South Wales. The “iPod zombie trance” people get in when walking, driving or pedaling around listening to their mobile devices is being blamed for an increase in collisions and even deaths in Europe and the US. The issue has been highlighted in Sydney by the death of a 46-year-old Glebe woman reportedly wearing headphones when she was knocked down and killed by an ambulance on Saturday night.”

The story does not make clear if the ambulance’s siren was blaring, but here’s betting it was. The Apple God and the members of his cult might reply that iPods don’t kill people, people kill people. Even so, who’ll be surprised if these devices aren’t labeled with warnings in the not–too-distant future.

Belfast ghost tour shows off city's dark side — Maine News ...

Belfast, Maine - Thirteen people were walking dark streets of Belfast on Saturday night behind their guide, a man wearing a black hat top and carrying a lantern swinging as he pointed out places where horrific crimes have occurred over the last two centuries.

And where there is crime, there are ghosts, Ted Guerry said for tourists willing and residents who braved the cold of the Belfast Historical Ghost Walks tour.

"If you do not believe it, you could not stand out here every night with a straight face and tell all these stories of people ghost," said Guerry, a school bus driver and embalmer and funeral home master tour host ghost "since the beginning of the summer.

At least one person that night hoping to have a personal encounter with the supernatural.

"I like ghosts," said Kami Cluff of Coatesville, Penn. "I want to take good pictures of them."

But others were not so sure. Steve Madaio and Patricia Sutton, Mass., said they were skeptical of the group.

“We just thought it would be interesting to see what happened in Belfast,” Patricia Madaio said.

Guerry led the crowd through a whirlwind version of the darker side of the midcoast city’s history, beginning with a tale of a mass killing at the hands of a disgruntled man named Adrian Jones.

“September 9, 1933, became the most infamous day in this town for murder,” Guerry told his audience.

Jones, who sold maple syrup for a living, snapped after the owners of the maple trees told him they were cutting the grove down, explained the amateur historian. The killer got a shotgun and a pistol and began taking his revenge on Belfast that afternoon at the corner of High and Main streets. By the time he was finished — shot by his own hand in the alley behind what’s now Darby’s Restaurant — four men were dead.

“It became the worst crime day in Belfast history,” Guerry said.

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