The Worst Things For Sale

The gold rush of erotic Kindle books is over, but the long tail continues, with titles like “Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter.” As always, you can read a chunk of the text in the “Look Inside” without buying it.

You can get grated cinnamon and nutmeg (or even the “pumpkin pie spice” mix) in just about any grocery, so why you’d want an oil-based spray of these spices is… simply beyond me.

There’s no clinical evidence that “semen volumizers,” a class of supplements which claim to make you create more semen when you ejaculate, actually do such a thing. And there’s no clinical evidence that ejaculatory volume is tied to subjective measurements of pleasure, either. But you’ve got to hand it to Ball Refill for its name, when its competitors’ products are called Ejaculoid, RopeX, and BIGJIZ.

You’re always late because your clock isn’t functional.

There’s a variant that says “Whatever, I’m always late,” and about a dozen more like it that I don’t need to link.

Mix-and-match fonts? Check.

Arrow on it for no reason? Check.

Maximum adventure value of $388.40 using the dimensions of 6x6x2.5″, hexagonal packing density of 0.9 (ignoring edges), 17.9mmx1.35mm size of a dime (coin with the highest value-per-volume), and ignoring that the inside dimensions are smaller than the exterior measurements of the box? You bet.

This childrens’ sink has reviewers angry as shit, and it’s because, as one of them notes, the price is wildly inflated due to people buying up the entire stock from local Wal-Marts and then reselling it online for four or five times the price. Fear of missing out is a great driver for capitalism, leading people to buy products and services that they don’t even particularly want. The fear of not maxing out your child’s brain stats because you didn’t get them the right toy is the main driver of product sales to pre-advertising-age children, and it’s used ruthlessly by manufacturers to push products through mother-directed publications, online and off. You will destroy your kid’s college career if you don’t enrich them with this plastic sink. If they’re out of stock you will buy it at an insane markup. Unless… you know… you don’t want them to succeed.

There are a few good ways to get secure passwords for your accounts, and while A Book Of Random Passwords fulfills the “capital and lowercase, number and symbol” architecture everyone asks for, it’s also a small, finite set of possibilities for attackers who might want to brute-force your password.