Was the embeded ad for the product intentional or just ironic?

I research all my purchases with the exception of the odd impulse buy from particular vendors (Damn you Think Geek!).

Agreed. That's what reporters do. Dig down and find the good stuff. Separate fact (proto waiting for production funding) from fiction (rendered vaporware).

Testing. 1 2 3?

BARS? Man, I've been in NYC too long. Good thing I have a holiday back to Blighty booked. I need me one of those bars now I know they exist..

I love the Porsche analogy. The 911 a.k.a the 993 > 996 > 997 > 991, (for those unfamiliar with the model year revision nomenclature), is a great example of a subtle evolution in design that sells by the bucket load each time.

Probably because you can afford to drink more of it. (Think impoverished students mostly).

Dunno about V+RB but Jaeger bombs smash me every time..

All 0.95 lenses, (and there ain't many) with the exception of the Voigtländer m4/3 25mm (still over 1k) are several thousand to buy..

Brings back memories of my old Barnett Diablo, skimming bb's across the concrete deck of an old disused warehouse back in my skateboarding days. If you did it at dusk, the spark trail from a nearly, but not quite, parallel to ground shot was awesome..

Custom fits could come off in your ear, yes. But, they are a larger, single-form piece of plastic that takes up most of the ear canal and is totally visible if the hardware separates. This makes it instantly obvious what happened if you take out your IEM's and one is missing. It's either on the floor or in your ear…

I love my HF3's. I loved them even more after I had the custom ear moulds made for them. Maybe rather than ditch them, you should upgrade to the custom fit. You won't regret it...

Not that I'm currently looking for a job, but if I were, and my FB profile could be figured out from the public version (mine has very little visible to non-friends), this would be my excuse.

So yours was quicker. That said, I was using the charging brick that came with it, but the glow cable (as seen recently here on Giz) from a 3rd party charger.

Devices rarely land parallell to the ground, as I discovered with my iPad 2. Mine landed not just on it's side, but managed to hit the base of my office chair right where the volume control is. The result, until I used a plastic wedge* to square the dent out, was a stuck volume button and the screen being slightly…

Battery slow to charge?

No idea how much a Negroni is in Melbourne, but if it had been a glass of Louis XIII each in NYC that would have been a $600 tab..

I'm an iPad gamer and one thing that always marred like Infinity Blade for me was the lack of projective shadows. (Being used to it on desktop / console platforms).

Revolutionary for me would be to ditch the bezel completely in favour of a configurable "virtual bezel" area that's part of the display but is touch sensetive configurable (stay with me on this).

Giving them work and a warm dry place to be for a few days is all well and good but who's going to help them do their tax returns once they are back on the street? These poor bums will have the IRS on their backs for the rest of their lives! Oh the humanity..