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Andrew Bird’s latest outing, Noble Beast, hits stores tomorrow.  Somehow, my copy was shipped to me two weeks early.  I got the deluxe edition that also includes the extra disc of b-sides and instrumentals, Useless Creatures.  The two discs feature vastly different sides of The Bird, but both have their charms.  Noble Beast itself is a fascinating collection of some new sounds as well as some old, but significantly different than his last outing, Armchair Apocrypha.

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This is a review I wrote two years ago but I figured I would transfer it here…

Recently, my 3rd generation iPod has been acting
finicky and it seemed the hard drive was dying. I had
been looking at the 5th generation iPod as a possible
replacement until I came across the Pontis MX2020, a
PMP with a bigger screen and for $100 less than the
iPod! It’s 20gb, with a 3.5″ touchscreen, and A/V
inputs and outputs for playing/recording from a TV or
other source. I read a review on osnews.com and I was
intrigued by the fact that it runs on Linux. $200
later, I had it in my hands and I began to play around
with it. You navigate primarily through the joystick
which is pretty responsive and felt surprisingly good
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