@c_cornelp: I realize that, but why would you invent something like that and not go out of your way to patent it. That wouldn't make any sense. Oh well, I'm no patent lawyer!

@Orion126:

@Christo27: I'm sorry, I crossed a line I shouldn't have. I just find that any time I post in an article people start jumping down my throat about any little detail - if you miss an apostrophe, if you misspell something, and countless other reasons, and it happens so frequently that it's frustrating. I apologize for…

@ryszard: Stanza was the most popular iBook reader for the iPhone before iBooks came along. I really think that if they put that much work into creating such a technology that they at least submitted it for patent. It would be ridiculous not to. But I mean for all I know, Apple bought Stanza (because it really was…

@Christo27: iPHONE. When did I say iPad? I got my 3GS in July of 2009 and Stanza was already a well-established app by then. Don't try proving someone wrong when you don't know what they're talking about in the first place.

Uh, what? Apps in the Apple store that are meant for book reading have had this a lot longer. How did they not have the patent then? I don't think that Microsoft can swoop in and claim a patent on something that already existed.

@Lite: an adventurer is me!: It is my patriotic duty to kill this abomination! /s

@ithyphallus, 13382: I know it isss, at first I thought it was a donut but then I realized it's a taco. You're just full of double entendres, aren't ya?

@GustavoSM: hahaha it took me a full 3 seconds to get that.

Future Retro will like this article.

@vuvuzelafox: It's true, I am very awBZZZZZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZ BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. It's fact.

@GitEmSteveDaveSpoils:

@vuvuzelafox: I actually thought of this before I thought of Christopher Walken's original line. Curse you, vuvuzelafox for infecting whitenoise & consequently my brain with your VUVUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.............

@GitEmSteveDaveSpoils: Shhhhh. I was imagining you as a mythical unicorn grazing in a green field full of rainbows and leprechauns.

@GitEmSteveDaveSpoils: Also, you're like the mythical Ponies, with 1000 followers/friends. Crazy, it be!

@GitEmSteveDaveSpoils:

Too much bezel.

@ithyphallus, 13382: You wish, depiction of an erect penis! :P

@djalice: You're comparing Prince to Mozart? Seriously?

@Squabble: I love you guys, no sarcasm. No homo!