On 5/13/04 12:11 AM, "M Burke" <mburke6225 at aol.com> wrote: > My kids tell me that their iPod ear buds are designed in such a way that > it is easy to hear external noise like a car horn or someone talking to you. They are. My shure e2c's, however, are not. So I don't use them except at the gym. -- Samuel W. Hotchkiss hotch at zlit.net Laptop History: PB 145, PB 520c, PB 3400c, 400mhz Pismo, 400mhz TiBook, 667mhz TiBook (rev b), 1ghz TiBook