Andy (Waxy) had a lovely idea earlier this month - pick a favorite book/dvd/album and see what the worst is that the world has to say about it (Amazon.com User Reviews sorted from lowest-to-highest). He called it the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian game. It's illuminating, fun and now a little easier to do - I pulled a few pieces of Amazon Light and some page-scraper bits I had laying around to make it a two-step process now. Go here, and enter a search term, and click on one of the search results, and voila: the worst of the lot.

For instance, here's some hating on Doolittle, by the Pixes. My favorite quote, from a 1-star rater "I dont like the pixies at all, but this is definatly their crowning acheivement." Wha?

Hours of time-wasting fun. That's what the Web is all about, no?

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