Uranium Ore Reviews on Amazon

[Case]

Apparently, you can buy uranium oreon Amazon.com. Or at least, you could, as it’s shown as “currently unavailable.”

But what’s really funny are the user reviews:

@Patrick J. McGovern "Procrastinating Evil Scientist"

I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.

Or…

@Kyle J. Von Bose

So glad I don’t have to buy this from Libyans in parking lots at the mall anymore.

I bought this to power a home-made submarine that I use to look for prehistoric-era life forms in land-locked lakes around my home town in Alaska. At first I wasn’t sure if this item would (or could) arrive via mail, but I was glad to see it showed up with no problems. Well, almost no problems.

Or…

@Nero Goldstein "Bemused by a Muse"

Ok for cleaning teeth, not so great for klling ants.

and…

@Ari Paul

I bought the uranium and thought it’d be fun to put it in the microwave. DO NOT MICROWAVE URANIUM. There was a blinding white light and the next thing I know, I woke up on the Island from the TV show “Lost.” It took me 6 months to convince that jerk Ben Linus to give me the coordinates to get back and write this review.

There’s lots more. Funny stuff.

[robsam]

hahaha! Nice reviews.

[jellyfish]

Funny…

Check out the ‘customers who viewed this item also viewed’ section:

Amazon.com: Nova Dress: Toys & Games

Tuscan Dairy Whole Vitamin D Milk, Gallon, 128 oz: Amazon.com: Grocery & Gourmet Food

Also very funny reviews there as well.

[jpinard]

If you look long enough you’ll find my review of Uraniaum Ore in there too. Not sure if it’s good or not (it’s from last year).

[Bahimiron]

This thread has a lot more of these. Oh, Amazon.

And wasn’t there a trend a while back to write long, florid reviews of some cheap Bic pen?

[MatthewF]

It says it’s in stock right now.

[Marcus]

So uh that actually is Uranium Ore… that you can get on amazon.

You really can get anything on amazon.

[MatthewF]

Oh man, this is a goldmine. Aside from the reviews and customer images:

[Case]

:-D

[Raife]

The seller’s Storefront is not unlike the back page from an old comic book. Roswell soil samples, ESP testers, UFO detectors…

[Cold_Blooded]

Seemed like most relevant thread to bump on subject of “Amazon reviews hijacked for unintentionally humorous purposes”:

Hundreds of user-submitted product photos for “Accoutrements Horse Head Mask”

[cliffski]

errr…someone explain what this is?
http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477/ref=pd_sim_sbs_indust_6

[IndieInIndy]

At a guess, it’s a book full of random numbers. They used to be used in math, statistics, and various science computations. Back in the day when a “computer” was a person who punched numbers into mechanical calculators. If you wanted to perform a calculation with a random set of inputs, you’d grab a book of random numbers off of a shelf, open an arbitrary page, and select some digits. Not just the result of random die rolls, but statistically “random” numbers that pass chi squared tests, etc.

[CLWheeljack]

Correct. As indicated by the author listing, it was published by the RAND corporation, which gives a hint to its original use.

[Reldan]

@CLWheeljack

Correct. As indicated by the author listing, it was published by the RAND corporation, which gives a hint to its original use.

Well, I found it more a more compelling read than Atlas Shrugged. Do you know if she wrote this beforehand, or is this a sign of the evolution of her philosophy?

[sillhouette]

@MatthewF

…

I’m pretty sure thats a Fallout 3 blueprint.

Also, looking at the book “A Million Random Digits…”, Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed:

book “The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats”
book “Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff”
AMSCAN Face Paint, 1-Ounce, White
book “How to Avoid Huge Ships”
what? UFO-02 Detector

So, there you have your random number audience; paranoid X-Files watching mimes with bad pop culture taste and splinters in their ass.

[DeepT]

Another good one to read the comments on:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00012182G/ref=s9_simh_gw_p328_d0_i4?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-5&pf_rd_r=0QRXE1SSX7E6MP3W05WC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938811&pf_rd_i=507846

[fire]

@sillhouette

I’m pretty sure thats a Fallout 3 blueprint.

Also, looking at the book “A Million Random Digits…”, Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed:

book “The 2009-2014 Outlook for Wood Toilet Seats”
book “Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff”
AMSCAN Face Paint, 1-Ounce, White
book “How to Avoid Huge Ships”
what? UFO-02 Detector

So, there you have your random number audience; paranoid X-Files watching mimes with bad pop culture taste and splinters in their ass.

You missed the fresh whole rabbit.

[playingwithknives]

@CLWheeljack

Correct. As indicated by the author listing, it was published by the RAND corporation, which gives a hint to its original use.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html

It’s free too, and in use from 1955 until today.

Can anyone explain why when I paste any random selection of it into google I get loads of hits? Even 32 sets of numbers (32 is max number of words you can search for in google) gets 50-60 hits, mostly odd url’s and “this site may harm your computer” links. I understand the numbers on the sites might not be from the book but why even host a file full of random numbers?

[fire]

Spam sites have all sorts of algorithms to fill the page with “content.” It’s pretty common to copy/paste content from a book (or several books!) onto a page (or an e-mail, etc.).

See also:
Detecting Spam Web Pages through Content Analysis
Using Google cache and invisible text for spam redirect