Hopstretch

This is my favorite part so far.

Yup, dry grapes on straw mats in sun to concentrate, then vinify. Lovely jubbly.

They should bite sue his shiny metal ass.

Mullineux Straw Wine 2008. Wine! It's what's for dessert!

^^^ Dibs on the tall one!

Badly Drawn Boy -- About A Boy

Needs a headphone jack so you can hook in for a full Thunderfire Belchpants experience.

Iron And Wine -- The Shepherd's Dog

There's already enough blatant bias out there! (OK, it's a random pharmaceutical product, but wouldn't Biggie still look good in one of these caps?)

Happy Birthday!

I can recommend a sound beating.

Happy Birthday!

My head hurts.

"Have you ever fired one tank gun whilst jumping through the air whilst in a high speed pursuit?" "Yes."

Hopefully they put a little more work/thought/cash into the USB input this time.

For a product that's such a "disappointment", an awful lot of people seem to be desperately trying to pre-order one. Or two.

Godspeed Steve. Much, much too soon.

Don't think so. If you look at the extraordinarily protracted (in the mobile context) continuing market relevance of the 3GS, you can see the method in Apple's madness. In two years or so, the 4S will similarly be the bread-and-butter free(ish) phone and the minimum spec device capable of running iOS8 (or thereabouts). Jumping straight to a new whizz-bang form factor in the 5 would have picked their own pocket in the long run. And in the short run, they can now use LTE as a differentiator for the 5 when those chipsets mature enough to get halfway decent battery life.

Never regretted taking the "intermediate" step from the 3G to the 3GS, it was just a far better device. Gap between 4 and 4S seems quite a bit narrower on paper and upgrading immediately something of an indulgence -- which I hereby grant thee, Sir Stretch.

Congrats Chris!

Take the HC shuttle from the airport.

Drove by the beach where this happened yesterday. http://www.iol.co.za...auded-1.1147201 There were lots of surfers out in the bay as usual. Braver than I am with this sort of thing going on just a half mile away at Seal Island. There's a lot of unregulated cage diving going on with the Great Whites in False Bay and the worry is they are being habituated to associate humans with food, as the dive operators chum heavily. The way they nailed this poor guy pretty much as soon as he got in the water is bloody scary.