I mentioned spinning in a recent post and a reader asked "what dat"? Spinning, or as it was originally known, Velo de Sade, was first used during the Inquisition.  Would-be heretics would be strapped to pedals and made to spin wooden wheels as fast as they could as musicians played loud tunes and inquisitors in skin-tight clothing shouted instructions in irritatingly perky voices.  Lord Douchebag, en route to the horrible device, was said to remark,  "I'll have the rack, please".  Modern-day spinning has come a long way since those dark ages - today we have iPod playlists.  But it remains our most effective means to illicit a confession from a heretic, a witch, or an out of shape former cyclist with nothing to confess but a lack of motivation.