Using the standard present (which, as CD Stack helpfully informed me, will result in files in the 170kbps-210kbps range), my two year old Quad G5 with the standard optical drive and HD was able to ...

1. Invert the top half of a CD cake box spindle, and stack the CDs in it. 2. Get a chisel (or some other suitably-shaped metal object) that's an inch or two wider than the center CD hole. 3.

Martin Hilbert and Priscila Lopez of the University of Southern California say that if all that data were stored on compact discs, the stack of CDs would reach beyond the moon - if the stack didn ...