Quoted: About 79 years ago, when the FDIC was just a gleam in Eleanor Roosevelt's eye, and Hoover hadn't yet been dammed, Inez "Bug" Rutledge asked her son to paste together a collage of pictures of items from the family's Drug Emporium showing how they could be used by people struggling through the collapse of all the banks. Just this past week, her descendants

Quoted: Forget the ten programmable hotkeys. Forget the fact that thisremote can learn new device codes simply by pointing the old remote atit. Forget the glossy black finish, even. My favorite feature of thisPhilips Icon 5 Device Universal Remote is the included set of stickers.They feature full-color logos for many of the most popular networks, soyou can

Quoted: Always look on the bright side, say the pink-spectacle crowd. Goodadvice – if you want to burn out your retinas and go blind! What kindof sucker do these happy freaks think I am? They’re not gonna put oneover on Arthur Churlman, host of You’re Not Gonna Put One Over On Me! Todaywe’re being asked to believe that the Sandisk Sansa e280 8GB MediaPlayer

Quoted: I really thought I had it all. I mean, I was a stagehand for one ofAmerica’s leading home-shopping channels. Who wouldn’t lose perspectivein a crazy situation like that? The fast cars, the wild parties, theconstant requests for autographs – and the women, man, the women…not tomention the famous “sample room” of free merch sent to us bymanufacturers.

Quoted: Kind of a slow news week in Wootdom - I guess people would rather talk about trifles like the financial bailout, baseball playoffs, and Veep debate than our important work in the field of remaindered electronics and cut-rate humor. But we still garnered some e-ink over the last seven days... The class blog for an Indiana University course on Human-Computer

Quoted: In our Woot web-browser stats snapshot last month, we looked at how many Woot users had tried out Google's new Chrome browser in the first few days after its release - a surprising 3.7% on September 3. A couple of weeks later, Computer World ran the same numbers for their visitors, and found that there'd been some backsliding, as the early-adopter fetishists

Quoted: Maybe it’s Death Race. Maybe it’s Eagle Eye. Maybe Wanted.This year everyone has one pretty lousy action movie that they stillvery much wanted to see. That’s the dirty little secret of the movieindustry. Namely, that the system used by movie reviewers is completelyunscientific. You can throw out “four stars” and “sixthumbs” all you want, but what does

Quoted: At some point in the recent past, we asked you to show us how a famous person or fictional character would spend his or her final moments before the end of the world. Now be honest, if there was a Woot-off going on, how many of you could pull yourselves away from the F5 key? First Place - $100 easy1 - Geronimo! Legend has it that he actually yelled

Quoted: Sales Associate: Welcome to Buy Barn, can I help you find anything? Customer: Hi, I’m looking for the (PLAY-ner) PD 7130720p Home Theater Projector. That’s the compact HD projector with thenative 720p resolution, 4500:1 contrast ratio, and 900 lumens ofbrightness. Sales Associate: I’m sorry, I don’t think we carry that brand. Customer: Really? Because