@JeniT, someone I follow on Twitter, asked this question an hour ago:
Lazily, innocently, I replied:
To which Jeni came back with:
So as you would imagine, I had to go to the Amazon page and take a look. A proper look. And then it happened.
I got lost.
Completely lost.
Mesmerised.
Mesmerised? Mesmerised doing what?
Mesmerised reading the collaborative filter for this product, “people who looked at this also looked at” …… highlights of which I list below:
- Canned unicorn meat
- 2009-2014 outlook for wooden toilet seats somewhere or other
- UFO detector
- Scientific testicle self-exam something or other
- The best of David Hasselhof
- Live ladybugs
- Tattoos for babies
- Roswell soil sample
I could go on, but won’t. You get my drift.
Yes the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt is there somewhere. You can see the whole thing here. It’s fascinating for me to see how humour and satire invade the depths of e-commerce, a “corruption” of cyberspace that enthralls me.
I hope you read the reviews too.
Of course. Some months ago I’d written about the AudioQuest K2 reviews. http://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-K2-terminated-speaker-cable/dp/B000J36XR2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342279661&sr=8-1&keywords=audioquest+K2. I emphasised Three Wolf Moon because that was the first time I really came across the “humour and satire in reviews” genre. This time I was just focusing on the collaborative filter’s output. Thanks for bringing it up.
& David Hasselhof! That’s hilarious, who are these people :-))
Wasn’t there a huge craze for “automatic writing” in the early 20th century? That’s what I’m reminded of with quasi-random “surfing” on the web … semi-related items for folk who are in a state of “constant partial attention”.
On the up-side there can be serendipity; I only yesterday came across
Prof. Michael Byron and his curriculum vitae (see his “Evidentiary Fallacies and Empirical Data”) all of which landed me at “Satisficing and Maximizing: Moral Theorists on Practical Reason” on Amazon.
–@bentrem