May 12, 2004
The Not-So-Little Death
Posted by nerdling | May 12, 2004 10:59 AM
Medical science has discovered that all that was known about fat and how it kills people is, pretty universally, incorrect. Rather than causing death by the long-term stress of carrying around extra weight, fat actually secretes hormones that affect the entire body and which, when released in large amounts (due to larger amounts of fat), actually poison the organs.
More on the iTunes mission to open up the vaults of the music industry by releasing rare and out-of-print materials in the iTunes Store. Speaking of which, I recently made my first purchase at the iTunes Store to find out what all the fuss was about. It was a remarkably easy experience, though I didn't browse the catalog very long so as to avoid temptation.
Now you, too, can carry up to a dozen iPods at once, thanks to Karl Lagerfeld and Fendi. The logical question here is who on Earth has a dozen iPods? Lagerfeld, that's who!
However, since Bowles' report, Lagerfeld has increased his collection significantly -- to 40 iPods. That's right, he now owns 40 iPods, according to the latest issue of French Elle. Modeling a silver jogging suit, Lagerfeld confesses to owning 40 of the devices. Although at first glance the reader may assume he means a single 40-GB iPod, he meant what he said: He has 40 iPods.
Lagerfeld has converted his collection of 60,000 compact discs to a unique iPod storage system, according to a recent report in Womens Wear Daily. Lagerfeld keeps most of the iPods scattered around his various homes, which, in turn, are scattered around the globe.
Maybe if I write him a nice letter Mr. Lagerfeld will take pity on me and buy me an iPod. At this point he could probably buy them at cost.
