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10 Great Snake-Oil Gadgets
The Byelorussian Strikes Again writes "Wired offers up 10 of the most awesome snake oil gadgets, from industrial cables sold as $200 ionized pain-relieving bracelets to a plastic chip that cures anything, improves gas mileage and cleans swimming pools.
One truly sad development: the infamous $500 wooden volume knob is no longer on sale."
I've seen a list of audiophile gadgets here:
http://www.ilikejam.dsl.pipex.com/audiophile.htm
Next year's list will include MS Vista operating software !
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"Bergstein said the device offered a false hope that consumed his wife and robbed the family of precious remaining time with her. A retired Microsoft manager, Bergstein looked at the source code in the EPFX's software. It appeared to generate results randomly."
Bergstein went on to say, "and as a Microsoft employee, I'm extremely familiar with software that generates results randomly."
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
I will only use oxygen free, litz-wound snake oil.
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"there's no engineer out there dedicating his life to polishing wooden volume knobs."
;)
Well as far as I'm concerned, anyone that spends that amount of money on a volume knob IS a dedicated knob polisher.
If a baby duck is a "duckling," why would anyone want to eat "dumplings?"
I think there's some kind of error with Slashdot, the article link is not working for me.
It's just taking me to the Skymall catalog.
I can't even imagine the kind of imaginary world people with no scientific/technical formation live in.
And it's that attitude, sir, that prevents you from receiving quality information from the spirits around you. Trying drinking some more spirits, maybe it will help. Lack of imagination is often cured via an artifical suppression of inhibition. It also helps if there's a sexy druid you're trying to impress. Bonus: the more drink, the more any druid appears sexy.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I'll be happy to sell someone a wooden knob for $500.
SOLD! D'ye know how much Pirate Penis Prosthetics go for on the open market, lad? That be a good deal, so it be.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
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in those test if they were properly elevated from the floor.
No, no, none of those models will of course. The problem is that they all try to cancel magnetic fields, or create a static magnetic field. However, the earrings I have right here for a measly $1399 use a reverse ionization engine that will modulate the electromagnetic fields centered on your brain. These modulations are self-adjusting and completely unaffected by power lines and are proven to increase your brains throughput by 33%, but only in those regions which promote healthy thinking and habits.
Taking into account the way that your white blood cells will respond to our reverse-ionization self adjusting magnetic fields, I think you can just see for yourself how curing AIDS and bringing back your hair is just one of the many miracles that these earrings can offer you.
. . . go quite a non-meterian distance to obtain a device which emits "non-Hertzian frequencies."
Especially if I can pay for it with non-monetary currency.
Not only that, it's louder too -- it goes to eleven.
Cue one pirate penis prosthetics joke:
A pirate walks into a tavern, & the barman says "Excuse me sir, but do you know that you have a steering wheel coming out of your crotch?"
And the pirate replies (drum roll, please): "Yarr! It's driving me nuts!"