Normally Sneak tries not to open email missives that have things like “Burning Love Pouch” in the subject line. But Sneak is only human, and sometimes curiosity gets the better even of those who are aware that it’s often fatal to felines. In this case, the message proved to be an innocent press release about a new range of iPod cases - or in fact iPod cosies - resplendent in very furry fake fur.

They look very nice too. However, now that Sneak is the proud owner of a knobbly back-to-nature stick-based USB stick, and since IT Week has come over all green these days, Sneak worries that the manufacture of acrylic fur may well be more harmful to nature than, say, whacking a squirrel on the head and stealing its skin. After all, there are plenty of squirrels, but we only have one biosphere.

So, anyone know where Sneak can get a Pod-cosy made of genuine vermin-fur?

16 Oct 2006