Charles Darwin + Audiobook = Next-generation torture device
It'll make your head hurt.  Boing Boing   Yes, it's difficult to
express just how influential a work of research and literature
it was, and it's still obviously quite controversial today.
Because of that, I was excited to be reading it the first time
around back in my freshman-year "The Role of Science in European
Expansion" class. Little did I know that Chuck D. spends very
little time on the juicy stuff and spends way too many pages
ruminating on farm animals. As a result, the prospect of an
unabridged audiobook of this stuff makes me shudder. It's over
24 hours long! Forcing someone to listen to it would undoubtedly
break him down like crumbly cheese. Don't tell the folks at
Guantanamo Bay about this one...  However, if you're in the
market for a next-generation torture device, there are some non-
Darwin options out there. The most obvious example is Windows
Vista. Or, there's this wacked-out head massager that CrunchGear
thinks would make a nice