For anyone interested - here's a link to an installation in a church in Germany that plays John Cage's 'Organ2/ASLSP'. It's going to take 639 years to play the piece!

'Animal vacuum'? Can it suck cats from sofas? Is there room for a poodle in the bag?

Probably would not work under these circumstances.

So that the enemy thinks he has to deal with the Swedish chef.

"Candy company"? How darest thou? It's not 'candy' - it's chocolate, divine German chocolate! And, as the slogan says, it is 'Quadratisch - praktisch - gut'.

"monocle-wearing oil barons": couldn't help, but this came to mind.

That would be nice, indeed, but with 22,000 Hz you better don't have a dog at home...

It's quite clear: the iPhone 5 not only makes the vegetation greener, it also changes the wave patterns of the sea.

Great comment! As (continental) European I can totally relate to it - how can a boob be possibly worse than any sort of violence/aggression shown in the media? It's amazing that this Victorian undercurrent (ah - those Brits!) is still so present in the US. Whenever I tell someone that we have mixed saunas across the…

You must a) be living in the US then, and b) weigh more than 200lbs.

I'll raise you some Swarovski! We need more things encrusted with Swarovski crystal!

Maybe, just maybe, you haven't fully understood that there's more to literature than just being a 'commentary'...

Oh noes, I hate animated gifs with a vengeance, and you must not spread knowledge about that evil pest! It's like the 90s are back, and Geocities webpages with stuff flickering all over the place...

I was trying to be sarcastic here!

It's a gadget blog, not a tech blog. Gadget blogs are entitled to typos, wrong use of punctuation, occasional incoherency, and total absence of copy-editing. What you have in mind is something like 'ars technica' (which is a great tech blog, indeed).

I like e-ink, but have no problems reading on my (retina display) iPad (halfway through War and Peace...). And I can use the iPad to write, make presentations, as GPS, keep track of my trips, I can remote-login to my computer, and... and...

Right - it wouldn't change anything in load distribution. Generally, I think no matter how refined the strappery is designed, or the frame, or no matter how thick the padding is - there is a point during any hike/climb where you curse your backpack...

oh - alone the mention of that movie makes my skin crawl. Incidentally, I'm sitting in a dimly lit room right now, and, heck, isn't that some fog wafting in under the door...

Oh, I can totally relate to mechanically satisfying movements! Remember that lever on a turntable that lifted the arm from a vinyl LP? That resistance when pulling it towards you, and that limp dropping back when releasing it? Or rewinding a tape reel until the end of the tape came out of the reel slot, flapping…

That's not the point - this is about pretending to sing when all that was being done was hiring a good sound engineer...