This is less of a "LOL" and more of a "FAIL", but....

[jacquelinehydes]

Amazon has a new Lab&Scientific (beta) section, which is pretty cool. However, it is clear that non-scientists are writing the catalog, for no scientist worth their pipettes would ever miss this typo:

Comments

[jacquelinehydes]

Oh man, I knoooooooow. Why do so many scientific supply companies have such awful websites?

[somewoman]

Two words: captive audience.

It's like how all equipment that is computer-based is required to have user-hostile software.

[visgoth]

The person who wrote that attended a very pestigous univesity.

[mimesis]

lol, deliberate typo.

i see what you did there. ;)

[br0ken_dolly]

ugh. that shit always irritates me because i could do a better job, and i could really use a job like that.

i remember YEARS ago i sent an email to google (with my resume because i'm that tacky) that they should do a sciencey google for searching journal articles, patents, and textbooks. i never got a response, and a couple years later google scholar came out. and i still coulda done better if i'd been on the team.

hmph.

/rant

ps: did you click it? is there some kinda new-fangled equipment out there? ;)

[trixieleitz]

did you click it? is there some kinda new-fangled equipment out there? ;)

Nah, just boring old gel tanks ;)

[mimesis]

tee hee.

somebody email that copyeditor.

[ffutures]

Oh good grief - I've spent most of the last month putting together a (so far) £13,000 order for laboratory equipment. PLEASE don't tell me I've got to check 18 pages to see if bloody Amazon does things cheaper. Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhh!