Bad products, print services, alternate realities

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving.

• Just in time for holiday shopping item avoidance, the list of the Ten Worst Tech Products of the Year.
• If you're at all interested in print-on-demand services, here are a few I ran across in Wired:
• FlipClips- turn home movies into flip books.
• Lulu - publish books, CDs, DVDs, or calendars.
• iUniverse - for publishing and selling books.
• Cafe Press - all kinds of personalized items.
• And of course, most of the major photo services have some neat products, like at Kodak Gallery (Ofoto), Snap Fish, and Qoop.
• I have to admit that I like the idea of "alternate reality gaming" (link to ARGN), but haven't invested much time into it. Back at the time, I followed the CloudMakers (marketing for Spielberg's "A.I."), but really just read the summary of what people were finding.