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Comment The Black Hole of Los Alamos (Score 1) 363

If you are in the Los Alamos area you must check out the Black Hole of Los Alamos. It is a surplus shop with all kinds of lab equipment and government surplus items. The late owner used to work in nuclear weapons research before deciding nuclear disarmament was a better option. Really a pretty neat place with all kinds of junk.

http://www.blackholesurplus.com/

Also, if you go near Roswell you should check out The International UFO Museum and Research Center. It's cheasy, but it's only $5 to get in. There are a handful of neat little shops and restaurants with alien themes around town that I enjoyed when I was there as well.

http://www.roswellufomuseum.com/

Comment Why no mention of iTunes forcing QuickTime? (Score 1) 453

This was probably the biggest thing that bothered me about iTunes, and was the first thing I removed when I installed the latest version of "iTunes + QuickTime." I think I can speak for many people when I say QuickTime has to be one of the worst media players out there. I have been on Media Player Classic for years now and don't think I could ever go back to anything else. With support for a QuickTime alternative that works in a tiny media player with huge functionality (minus a library, but that is what windows explorer plus drag and drop is for.) All I wanted was to point iTunes to one directory to look in for my music (another local user on my Windows PC) and I could not find any options for it. I figured maybe they would have it in the latest version, but alas a product that "just works" will "just work" the way Apple intends for it to. I am now a Songbird user and will stay on it as long as I have my iPod. At least it will let me use part of my brain and add some functionality to my software.

In short I refuse to keep QuickTime on my PC as it is a load of garbage (i mean who hides the auto-start feature in the web preferences?). This for me was reason enough to finally dump iTunes once and for all (not that I needed any more.) When my iPod dies I will certainly look for an alternative media player that works the way I want it to.

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