... as if there were no threat from a comet named "eLenin"!

It's true that the Google Wave UI is pretty confusing. But I've been wanting to design an email replacement protocol that sits on XMPP for a while now and was happy to see that happen. That it also attempts to solve other problems, like capturing threading in a sensible way, allowing data to be presented in multiple forms and allowing robots to participate in these conversations, really sums up and simplifies a lot of issues in communication in general.

The way to make this is to crowd source it, like with Star Wars Uncut. Apply 2010s social networking technology to 1980s sci-fi. Make sure the aesthetic is true to the 80s if you can - pixels aplenty, 320x240, and of course, extra credit for making your scene on an Amiga. Or at least LOOK like it.

It was an intriguing design - trying to solve the problem of more information in a small, foldable space. Maybe someone will pick this concept up, patents willing. Then again, there's the roll-out computer design.

You breezed right by the "Associates" euphemism as well!
A more subtle one was "well above the market based salary range,"
  neglecting to say in which country that range was based on or what "well above" really entails.
 

NSA: we snoop to find terrorist threatS (and whatever else we run into)
IBM: We snoop to find profit threats (and whatever else we run into)

I've got a working Ampico reproducing baby grand piano and lots of rolls, mostly from the 20s and 30s . New rolls have never been important as patching up the decaying paper on the old ones.
Ampico rolls have dynamics info coded in them and they have been considered as accurate digital records of long dead piano virtuosos - although, like all digital recordings, these were heavily edited. I especially recommend any four-hands rolls!

QRS rolls were always more pop oriented - cheesier in their arrangements, but functional.

I'd love to get a roll cutter of course - something always in the back of my mind.