"Oh, and no using Photoshop beyond basic brightness/contract/exposure tweaking."

@DJEsch: Perhaps "Magic" Master Bedroom would work a tad more in his favor.

@zactommo: I wonder what sand in the wind does to the front element of a $20,000+ lens ...

If only sitting in front of a computer wasn't such a hassle, grandma and grandpa could hit Craig's List for $10 compact 35mm cameras that cost $300 - $400 15 years ago.

Cute? He looks really pissed to me.

@nectur: Exactly. These rates are only new to pre-paid.

@KillerBee: Google Nav decided the best way to take me through the Colorado rockies from Denver was a two-lane highway. Never mind the fact there's a little road called I-70 that gets me there faster via a shorter route ...

I wouldn't want to use a touchscreen surface. I'd have to move my arms and stuff, rather than crank up my mouse pointer speed and do all my tasks in a 4" x 4" area.

@Blarg: It's not even meat from a cloned animal, as the headline erroneously implies. It's meat from the offspring of cloned animals, or the offspring of the offspring of cloned animals, etc.

Got my Droid X two days ago as my first modern smartphone. This post was great!

The odd use of "eh" in he headline gave me an incorrect idea of what this article would be about.

@doggdiggity: You are my hero. I ordered my Droid X, due to several hardware features I like, but I still prefer some of HTC's sense elements. This looks like the best of both worlds - thank you!

@MyNameisn'tEarl: It's time in the VZW lineup has been about six months longer than most phone geeks' attention span.

When you say, "... a body containing a 14.2 megapixel APS HD CMOS sensor capable of capturing full HD 1080p footage ..." are you referring to the theoretical technical abilities of the senor? Because Sony's site only mentions 1080/60i.

What's the final use? The final reproduction size and medium? A 500 x 667-pixel web-resolution image is all good and well, but what would a graphic designer have to say about gong to print with the image?

Ah, the hazards of wild(heh)life photography at the zoo.

@Dafrety: Like fingernail polish? Er, I mean, electrically neutral transparent lacquer?

Oh, this is great. I've been asking for an iPhone at work for a year now, and it looks like I'll finally be able to get the iPhone 4 ... which now won't sync with my work computer, which runs 10.4. That's going to be a fun sell to my boss.

@Technologicisback: "Busy prepositions, always on the march."

@OmegaVader: You have no idea how many times I watched that scene, squinting to see where the Sandpeople were.