Sometimes a phrase, however mundane the context or application, just hits you like sub-bass and makes your teeth vibrate:

“The problem is that it’s very hard to get a feel for how these new planetary-scale applications might behave in the wild,” says Timothy Roscoe, a scientist at the Intel Research Berkeley Laboratory. “That’s the idea behind PlanetLab.”

Planetary-scale applications. Ooooh.

» Intel Research: PlanetLab: “Thinking Locally, Experimenting Globally” by David Pescovitz