Instead, here we are bringing you some of the more colorful tech-tales from the last seven days, which we're really not complaining about.

ENGADGET: Alt-week 9.15.12: The ultimate wind machine, Egyptian Lego and the office of our dreams

Last year the papers were full of tales of upright conservatives letting their hair down during the Republican convention.

ECONOMIST: What price a good time?

Last year's winner in the category was Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, by Philip Ardagh.

BBC: David Walliams up for Roald Dahl award

When my first Senate boss, Phil Hart, was in the last stages of his battle with cancer, Kennedy spent hours by his side offering humor, Irish tales and Senate banter almost endlessly, as Chris Dodd and many others have now done for him.

CNN: Commentary: Kennedy a worker, not a playboy