#8 sort of linked to this but i think it bears repeating...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRg2Rg5z5ZM
is a great video of a complete performance. (lots of closeups so you can really see the details of what's going on, and the music itself is excellent)

also an interview with the composer:
http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4067

thanks for posting this! i had heard some of stephen scott's music back in the (pre-youtube) day, but never seen it being made.

now i'm off to the piano... if i can just find that fishing line...

@#12 - well, then you roll your own, or go to this guy:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/make_your_own_vaccum_tube.html

also, pretty sure not a joke; after all these are the same folks that brought us such classics as the TM-7 Scrotum Smasher, Tx-2 Butt Probe, etc.

I think i may have found a plausible explanation:

Google "雞樅". Scroll down a bit, and what word jumps out at you?

The first search result* to have any English words in its title is "雞樅- Wikipedia".

It's easy to imagine a non-English speaker seeing this and mistaking it for a translation!

This also works for #24's cheesecake (起士蛋糕). Probably explains the other cases as well, since Wikipedia often comes up near the top in a Google search for a single word or common phrase.

*(Interestingly, the Wikipedia link is in the top 10 search results when you use Google in English or Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), but with Google in Simplified Chinese (as used in mainland China) it's on like the 5th page of search results.)

#22's Wekipidia bread has me truly baffled, though...