The Improbable Ascent of Mike Daisey

Call me an old-timer, but I remember Mike Daisey from the days when he secretly broke into Amazon.com with a camcorder and scandalized himself by opening a peephole of light into Amazon's cult-like confines. Mike was such an inspiration to all of us dammed and displaced dotcom workers that we wrote up his life story; this article still languishes somewhere on disobey.com's servers.

But look at Mike today: he's got a new show that just opened in New York and the New York Times gave it a glowing review. Who says that netslaves never have a nice day?

O.J. Simpson Has a New Ghost Page on Amazon.com

Copies of O.J. Simpson's new book "If I Did it," are being destroyed as we speak. Still, Amazon.com continues to maintain a page devoted to the book. On this page is the following advisory:

Availability: THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.

Already, purloined copies of "If I Did it" are turning up on EBay, but it is doubtful that any copy will ever appear on Amazon.com