Today's Woot offering is pretty funny:

If the scientist is going to use a home entertainment projector for the head, which one would we prefer him to use?

Woot feels the answer might be the InFocus IN72 Home Entertainment Projector. First of all, just look at it. This thing has awesome robot head written all over it. Not since HAL has there been such a perfect anthropomorphic design, allowing you to choose between:

a) breaking the ranks of soldiers by causing them to flee before your electronic snarl as you march on your state capitol or the state capitol of others.
b) breaking the ranks of soldiers by inviting them to stop and enjoy high quality movies or television in your new living room theater.

Also, the thing has sold out already, and it's not even 10 AM on the east coast.

It's a compelling argument.

I know you don't make many comments about the shuttle missions but the latest discussions about a late tile inspection seem to be implying that NASA believes there is a high risk of micro impacts on the leading edge surfaces. It seems to me this also implys that some may believe the damage and tragic loss of the last shuttle may have been caused by micro impacts. Is this just normal risk management or has this type of impacts risk level been elevated? Sorry if I have phrased this poorly. jjs

Poorly phrased and has nothing to do with projectors that look like robot heads...

In any case, one of the things I love about Woot is their writers. They always seem to come up with good and funny descriptions for their items.

Oh, and yes, it sold out before 10 AM. Projectors seem to be one of the few things that last longer than 2 or 3 hours on Woot (an MP3 player sold out in under 2 hours last week).