Earlier today we learned that Apple had decided to allow a new genre of apps into the app store with the release of Pull My Finger, a humorous but simple application that emits predictably nasty sounds whenever users pull on a virtual finger.
Cars and We Are Glass sound predictably fabulous, but there's unscripted drama when Numan's performance manages to somehow simultaneously blow the PA system and set off the fire alarm.
Unsurprisingly, at conclaves like the Davos World Economic Forum at the Asia-Pacific Economic CooPresidentsummit, President Xi Jinping is predictably starting to sound more like Adam Smith than Karl Marx, just as Donald Trump's speeches during his November whirlwind trip through Asia are coming to resemble nineteenth-century American rationales for protectionism.
Perhaps predictably, Mr. Hornsby sounds least pressured when he's playing his own songs.
Just before the talks opened, President Pastrana sounded predictably confident: one day his peace efforts would bear fruit.
In a speech on Thursday he sounded predictably defiant, but also called on the Security Council to answer the questions he had put to it.But has he much to gain from flexibility if, as the Americans now openly say, it makes no difference?
Predictably enough, Sherwood sounds excited to be back in management - claiming that he "can't wait to get started" and is "really looking forward to the challenge".
Using much higher-speed Internet connections, predictably, yields much better sound quality.
With singers spread out, often behind the listeners, the sound was predictably uneven.
The musician is famously exacting when it comes to sound and, predictably, the album is impeccably produced.
The sound is, predictably, excellent.
