w00t!! explained for the n00b

woot is a deal-a-day site.  Every day they have a different deal on something.  Sometimes cool, sometimes lame but usually a good price and in pretty limited quantities.  Every so often, they do 2 things.  One: a woot off.  It's a day long event where they do a marathon of different items.  They only bring out the new items when they've sold all of the old ones (they have a meter on the page that indicates the level of stock at the moment).  Right now it's a little unusual b/c they've been in woot-off mode for more than a day and a half and I don't know when it will end (no one really does).

The other thing unique to the site: Bag of Crap.  Now it doesn't sound all that appealing but let me explain- since they are a deal-a-day site, in fact, THE deal a day site, they get lots of merchandise filtering through their office.  Sometimes they get stuff left over from a sale or only get one or two of a particular thing.  In any event, the bag of crap is just that: a bag of promo and miscellaneous left-overs that have been hanging around in their offices.  They only charge you a buck per bag and you can get upto 3.  Most of the time, they're just ok stuff.  Headphones or computer speakers maybe an optical mouse or something.  But sometimes, oh sometimes they give you awesome stuff.  People have posted in their forums getting a Robosapien, a very expensive pocket PC and even an Xbox 360.  Because of this, the bags of crap (or any other B O C words, it started with "Blinged Out Cabbage" and "Bandolier of Carrots") are highly coveted.  If you check the Digg front page right now you'll see that there's a story about the woot memebers being livid b/c woot's servers crashed and crashed hard when the "boards of canada" came on early this afternoon.

I was very fortunate to get my 3 bags o' craptitude.  Now I just have to wait to see what they are....

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