A new game, independently discovered by waxy.org and Justine Larbalestier:

Here's a fun game... First, look up the most popular and critically-acclaimed books, movies, and music on Amazon. Click on "Customer Reviews," and sort them by "Lowest Rating First." Hilarity ensues! It's the Amazon.com Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game! [waxy.org]

Or, as Ms. Larbalestier calls it, "The Amazon.Com Method of Rage Maintenance".

(Meta-post: I met Ms. Larbalestier at WisCon. I just read her The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction, and I've been meaning all week to write her a note about it. [Five stars, by the way.] And yet I got the link to her journal from waxy.org, whoever they are, and that link from Ars Technica. Ars Technica is a collaborative tech blog that dates from before there were blogs. I've been reading it for years, even though I'm no longer really in the target audience. Damn, but the world is getting small.)