Thanks for the tips! I've been wanting to start doing this but have been afraid that I'd be perceived as a creep.

This seems awesome for biking. Too bad I'm not able to make an investment like this right now :P I'm curious to hear the sound quality.

Yup, I hauled my bike out for the first time in months last Friday and only realized an hour into my ride that my tires are almost flat. No wonder it was so damn hard!

From your hands or until your muscles suddenly get so big they rip through your skin?

Exercise has a lot of physical and mental benefits, so it's worth trying to find ways to make it tolerable. I hate almost all forms of exercise, but I've found a couple that work for me:

I think you mean Sozin's comet?

I kind of feel like Google is the type of company that would approach this in a "scorched earth" way and offer MORE than comparable services just because they can afford it and it will draw more people to their sites and their ads.

How can you suggest that the introduction of a new form-factor for a phone is a sign of increasing gadget monotony? This whole article seems a bit alarmist to me. Obviously there are people who find this useful. There is now another subset of the smartphone and tablet market. This doesn't mean that all phones will now…

I didn't reject them because they are fictitious. I rejected them because even within the context of the stories in which they operate I would be incapable of using them. A lightsaber is simply a tool that, once built, can be used by anyone (though, obviously, with varying levels of skill).

Well I'm not a wizard, so Gandalf's staff and Harry Potter's wand would be basically useless. I don't know how to use a sonic screwdriver, and Excalibur is still essentially just a sword.

Doesn't the Galaxy Note have a pressure sensitive stylus? If that's the case, it would be as easy to make such a tapered line on the Note as it is on a Wacom tablet.

I guess it depends on your workflow. Sometimes I just need a small space for one task, but sometimes I need two documents side by side. I also use my desktop as my TV, and watching from the couch is bad enough with my 20" monitor :P

No! No capes! Capes tend to get caught in things and slow you down!

For one thing, handset manufacturers could make fewer models. They could simply make, say, three price tiers, each with its own name, and then slap a number at the end for each year's version.

No, the hero would be made of brightly colored spandex.

Like I said, your argument can stretch to cover almost anything. People got along fine without lots of modern technology. That doesn't mean that we don't get along better now, or that the government should have the power to take away our right to make use of those technological advances, particularly without…

Would you say the same if they banned cell phones altogether, simply because once upon a time we all got along fine without them? Your argument can be stretched to cover almost anything.

This seems difficult to enforce. Cops should pull over anyone who looks like they're talking, and then check that person's cell phone to see who they were talking to?

That may be true right now, but as ebooks become more and more popular, and more and more people read ebooks as opposed to traditional books, this may pick up some steam. Seems like a very, very long term strategy though.

To be fair, Pottermore is more than just an ebook store. The actual Pottermore site has a lot of other content that's pretty interesting.