What I do know is that my left and right eyes have different color shifts. My left eye is very dominant so overall "white balance" with my two eyes open is that of my left eye. If I look with only the right eye, colors shift towards cooler colors (bluer). So based on this sample of one, it's not inconceivable to me that people perceive colors slightly different. I'm not color blind in testing...

They don't top out at 34 but 32-34 is probably a pretty common waist line. I'm a 33-34, was 32 when younger and really skinny. There are lots of bigger waist sizes. Source: Swede

Many things would be canceled if they applied censoring to non English languages. My favorite is the "kuk" food company which means dick in Swedish :-) I've seen kuk lorries driving around on the roads and a kuk werehouse. Maybe we should just stop being so easily offended instead of canceling everything?

Yes, "iPod earphones" was just the parrot speaking. Earphones give a lot of bang for the buck (the car is a valid argument though).

The article however was not about MP3 compression but rather dynamic range compression used when mastering CDs :-)