MetaFilter posts tagged with products and shopping

"Your daily source for wonderful stuff."

dobbs — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:07:06 -0800

Grandma's Kitchen (youtube), the Roller Toaster, the water-less washing machine, the sculptures of Gwon Osong, a crucifix-shaped mp3 player... some of the people and things found on CubeMe, a blog about "wonderful stuff".

Bitch-Slapping with the Invisible Hand

digaman — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:38:57 -0800

Zombied-out customer-service reps beware: the Consumerist, the newest edition to Nick Denton's Gawker "nanopublishing" empire, is watching you. Gizmodo's Joel Johnson (who recently spent a month in New Orleans) serves up sassy shopping tips and customer-service-tests-from-Hell. More hip-product-pr0n-with-an-attitude, just in time for ~~Christmas~~ the happy holidays^TM.

Spoon — Fri, 10 May 2002 06:36:42 -0800

I thought I'd heard every crazy idea in the world. And now I have.

chason — Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:30:15 -0800

The Economics of Aesthetics Warning, free registration is required
This article points out an interesting problem with calculating how much a product is worth... How much is aesthetics worth to the consumer? How do you even calculate that? (via Signal vs. Noise.)