Sentence of the day: Chutzpah edition

Amazon, on charging customers to store the festering carcass of their destroyed data:

If you have no need for this snapshot, please delete it to avoid incurring storage charges.

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Profit margin of the day

7 inches of silicone rubber for only $16.98.

The Long Tail

Click to embiggen. Requisite affiliate link, in case you’re in the market. Three great models to choose from!

The (priceless) sound of silence

By now you’ve all read the hilarious reviews for the $6,800 AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cables. But it raises the question—what do people listen to with these fancy cables? The answer is in plain view.

The Occasional WTF #8

Math is hard.

High voltage hyperbole

Look, I like extension cords as much as anyone. I even have a favorite extension cord. But there’s no such thing as “exciting savings on extension cords.”

The Occasional WTF #5

This is Amazon’s product photo for the Optima 34 RedTop car battery:

Optima makes a similar battery, the Optima 34R. It’s the same size and shape as the Optima 34, but the polarity is reversed; that is, the red and black terminals are switched. Here’s Amazon’s product photo for the 34R:

Quick question

Why do women get “intimate apparel” and we just get underwear?

The Occasional WTF #1

Amazon Music Downloader