Ooooooooh please please please don't get me started on that one either :)

No, he wasn't - or in such a remote way that it doesn't register. Million upon million of dollars in hight tech saw to that. (And possibly his insurers too.) People the world over do far more dangerous things - diving for pearls, say - and "survive" too.

I once walked right into a glass door and broke my nose. It was 8am, I had just left work, hadn't slept, and had taken off my contact lenses, are my excuses.

"Survivor"?

But that's the thing: something so unusual would probably lend itself more to starting than just noticing, the way for instance an actual pile-up does. Things that puzzles and that one's brain doesn't immediately get or recognize will need more mental processing time and so may distract more. But then again, maybe…

Something around $80 (can't remember the exact amount at the time's exchange rate) in mid-August 1983 for a used (ha!) Peugeot 104.

Actually, I'm not blown by the noise.

458s? Rare? I don't even notice them anymore.

"And then every single app in the entire store would have to be redesigned."

But a condom packet is nothing but a packet. There's not much to recognize brand-wise, really, unlike Tabasco and others.

On the flip side, Samsung's Galaxy Nexus lasts under 4 hours on a charge, but you can replace its battery with one that's double the capacity.

So that's a half-million Chinese men who won't be taught how to feed themselves for life, then.

"display a special pattern whenever there's an incoming call."

Well, you're mostly right, but there is a big difference: we're sort of used to cop car lights, so they don't distract so much. This would be like seeing a UFO. People would definitely notice.

"What accounts for this? Sloth? Ignorance?"

So the solution to the non-problem of typing six to eight characters is manufacturing a few million alarm clocks, then. That makes so much sense I'm angry at myself for not coming up with it before.

"Days or weeks later"

I bet that for far less than $31,770 you can find someone who will manage to photoshop the lens and the body in a believable manner, too.

Between a Ferrari and a Nissan GT-R, you also won't be seeing a performance difference equal to the money you're spending (quite possibly the opposite, actually :))

Well, I just deleted the Twitter account I had created thirty minutes ago for the sole purpose of eventually "transitioning" (a word that, amusingly enough, primarily reminded me of something altogether different :))