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These are my links for November 10th through November 12th:

• Tango Mercurio –
• Sharna Fabiano’s listing of Non-Tango tracks –
• Tango Argentino de Tejas – Stephen Brown's tango page; resources around Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas
• Cell Size and Scale –
• Irene and Man Yung’s Tango Blog: Buenos Aires 2008 – Part 4 – Your partner can be a world-famous show (or even salon) tango instructor, or the most skilled follower in the local tango community, but she would still not come close to what dancing with a milonguera like Elba (or Susy Tilbe – Man Yung had a chance to dance with her on the first day of our first visit to Buenos Aires) feels like. "Milonguera" seems to be a state of mind that could be transmitted to the leader when the milonguera follows. It is a deep feeling, which also feels like complete freedom. You don't have to worry about whether your partner can follow or not follow, or whether something would be "too tricky" or "too plain" or "too easy" or "too difficult". The milonguera dances to enjoy the dance, she is not anxious about being able to follow everything that the leader is trying to do (even though she can, and she does), nor does she care. It was as if Elba had given Man Yung the order to "dance, dance!" and that was all he needed to do – to dance.
• Are You a Leading Cheater? « Movement Invites Movement – Why can’t Jorge make the follower do what he wants? The answer lies in the question: the word “make”. It is not in his nature, his personality, or his dance to “make” a follower do anything. If he feels that his follower cannot follow a certain movement, he simply will not do it again.

Andy Budd has a very awesome tutorial on advanced smart playlists. Definitely worth checking out. And if this is way too complicated for you: check out Smart Playlists.com

btw: my personal hint for all of you using smart playlists and iTunes ratings. Use Applescripts to transfer your ratings to the MP3 file’s ID3tag’s comments section. This way you will never lose those ratings even if you are moving your tunes from mac to mac…

Ⅰ just realized a very useful feature for filling my iPod: you can have multiple playlists inside a folder, but cannot select the folder to be automatically synched with the iPod. However what you can do is create a smart playlist that contains the folder’s contents! So now it is very easy to drag stuff to the iPod without actually changing its „synch settings“. Just drag a new playlist into the synched folder and it will appear on the iPod as soon as the next synch will be done.