There are currently on Cafepress 2,030 different slogans, verbal and visual, commemorating the expulsion of Pluto from the register of planets. These are available on 35,100 products. The page I am looking at (thanks, Jeremy) claims to rank them by sales, though I can’t believe that the ones below about 100 have ever sold anything. What matters, though, is that the attempt was made. I don’t know why this one piece of frivolity strikes me as the the perfect summation of a society of abundant capitalism, where people no sooner think of a joke than they try to sell it. File under “Things for which Tim Berners Lee did not receive his knighthood”
Also: a completely mysterious ad on Craiglist. Someone in Venice, California, who wants to have a child by “A wealthy platonic friend” in London. What, in Venice, does “platonic” mean? What is supposed to be the attraction of this offer for the wealthy father?