We're all for technology being used to free wage-slaves from the tedium of their jobs, but until they can invent a robotic bartender that flips bottles and woos patrons a la Tom Cruise in Cocktail, we'll stick with regular old human suds slingers who regale us with their false tales of bravado and sports heroics.

ENGADGET: "T-Rot" robotic bartender with pressure-sensitive grip

He asked me to sit down next to him and began to regale me with Buffettania.

FORBES: Regaled With Buffettania

While we've got plenty of eye-candy of the diminutive EV in our gallery below, allow us to first regale you with the car's specs.

ENGADGET: Fiat's 500e EV debuts at the LA Auto Show, we go eyes-on

However, often the professional number-crunchers and political soothsayers regale us with their interpretations of the wider electoral significance, we should never lose sight of the huge influence these councils have on millions of people's lives.

BBC: Elections to show why county councils count

During a nostalgic weekend, Kevin Schwantz was on hand to regale us with the inside story of his final career victory here in 1994, when he had to hold the throttle open down the straights with his left hand - despite a dislocated wrist - just to shake some feeling back into his fractured right hand.

BBC: Matt Roberts' MotoGP column

Sony has gathered us here today to regale the press with the latest and greatest of what's on deck for the consumer electronics giant.

ENGADGET: Live at the Sony press preview

They can regale their direct reports with tales of what the private jet ride was like to the board meeting, how the muffins were at the meeting, and what Mark Zuckerberg is really like behind closed doors.

FORBES: All Operating Executives Should Never Serve On Any Outside Boards

Eva Beuys, the artist's widow, still lives in the city, and the gold-hued "Palazzo Regale" installation, with its evocation of ancient burial rituals, coupled with objects recalling the artist's own life, is of supreme importance, says Ms. Temkin.

WSJ: Touring Beuys-World in Germany's Lower Rhine