The Daily Dot:
Terrible news for anyone who has ever been bored on an airplane: the company behind SkyMall, that in-flight catalog you disdainfully flip through after you’ve suffered through all the available episodes of The Big Bang Theory, has announced its inevitable bankruptcy filing.
Why do we say “inevitable”? Because SkyMall is packed full of actually useless garbage that no human being would conceivably buy, even in a late-capitalist boom cycle. Thankfully, a legion of loyal Internet fans has done the noble work of archiving these inexplicable items:
Proof that air travel makes you crazy – I read that catalog many a time and thought, “Hey – I should buy that!” only to get on the ground, regain consciousness and never buy a damn thing from their catalog.
No mention of the Jonathan Coulton song? New-media fail for Daily Dot.
I was on a flight to Japan just last week and saw the glow in the dark toilet seat. Ha ha. It was slightly entertaining at least. But 134 hours from Chicago to Narita… not enough I think.