Bargains abound at Woot dot com. They offer a different item every day. Better be there when the doors open at midnight US central time though, because they sell out fast. Most of this stuff looks like it mighta fell off the back of a truck. Mighta fell is one of those usages that slips by our redneck editor. Not that there’s anything wrong with rednecks you unnerstan’, summa my bes’ frans are rednecks.
Woot! offers a lot of high tech gear (and some plumbing supplies, I guess) at ridiculously low prices. You can buy up to three units. Shipping is a flat $5 no matter how many you buy. A good rule of thumb is buy three and dump the extra two on eBay.
Here’s what Woot! says people are saying about Woot!.
They are also funny. Scrolling down through the blog entries I found this personal favorite. It begins:
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives
you the universe?" Jacques Lacan famously posited. Grounded as it is in
a neosemantic paradigm, Lacan’s discourse elides the more contextually
utilitarian premise qua Baudrillard, i.e.: what do these
hypothetical lovers matter if none of them gives you a universe of
righteous, booming 5.1 sound?As we consider the Sony SRS-D5100
5.1 Gaming Speaker System, we encounter a mythopoetical paradox, a
fluid tension between masculine and feminine, between figure and
ground, between totally heavy and way lame. It can only be resolved –
or, some would say, suborned – through invoking a nonconstructivist
textual interpolation.In vulgarly mechanistic terms, this
speaker sextet centers on an 80-watt subwoofer augmented by five
12-watt satellite speakers, "pumping out some seriously bitchin’ thump
& crackle" (Heimerwein, M. (1973) Morphogenetics Come Alive!, University of Alabama Press).Further,
magnetic shielding on the speakers prevents interference with monitor
picture quality, and a wired control box allows the user to adjust the
levels of each set of speakers. The implications for postconstructivism are, to
say the least, obvious.The predominantly semanticist
approach of the Hamburg school fails to address the primary issues of
class identity, psychosexuality, and the unresolved need for
brain-blasting surround sound to fully appreciate F.E.A.R. Through a close prediscoursal reading of the context/metacontext surrounding the Sony SRS-D5100
5.1 Gaming Speaker System, we at once subsume and transcend the
strictures of neodialectic theory and enter a mediated landscape of
epistemological flux, emancipatory postconstructivism, and "bumpin’
noise pounding your eardrums from all directions" (Forsch, B. and
Andujar, J. (1982) Rotations: The Failure of Presituationism in the Works of Herzog, Milwaukee University Press).
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