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I like to make my drive a little less tedious by listening to music. On a smooth road, it’s just fine, but many roads will produce enough noise that portions of the music can be swamped, and performances like Ruby the Galactic Gumshoe have all their subtleties drowned out.

So I went out on Google with keywords like “road noise” and “sound deadening”. Introduction to Car Audio: How to Tame That Road Noise mentions materials like B-Quiet that can be installed to damp out noise. Dynamat Door Kits are another useful goodie. Quiet In There actually goes into how the sound gets into the vehicle in the first place, and has a number of links to useful products. How to Sound-Deaden Your Car looks handy.

Have any of you had experience with this?

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Gnod - the Global Network of Dreams is another interesting place to find recommendations of various sorts. Flork is a profile site whose login takes you to Gnoosic, Gnooks, and Gnovies. Flork gives you your own profile page. It looks like the technology is still fairly early stage, but it’s an interesting thing to explore.

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Just read an interesting article in the Guardian which suggests that the 9/11 hijackers had backing from Pakistan. I wonder if we’ll ever see this information given airtime in the US?