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By September 8, 20072 Comments

I can now safely ditch both Engadget and Gizmodo from my feeds. BoingBoing has added a tech blog writ­ten by Joel Johnson who, help­fully, can actu­ally write:

In the strange fairy land of high-end retail, products like the Beo 5 remote con­trol are allowed to flour­ish, des­pite glar­ing deform­it­ies like an awk­ward screen perched on a spindly neck, like a lolling Hapsburg prince too rich to be quietly sequestered but too ugly to be seen.

Meanwhile, I am suc­cess­fully wean­ing myself off my own gad­get desires until the pre­vail­ing per­son­al eco­nom­ic situ­ation improves but I will dream of one of these for a while:

Pioneer VSX-94TXH

2 Comments

  • dano says:

    Freakishly, without even remem­ber­ing this post up until now, I actu­ally bought one of these last week. Heavily dis­coun­ted at Harvey Norman. It is an object of con­sid­er­able majesty.