A hot story on the web today is basically just a picture of a small screw with an invoice that says SCREW, SPECIAL and a price of 61.31 euros plus VAT.
Sorry, it's not for a PlayStation 3, and it's not Sony's price, which is $38.40 if you buy direct in the US. (Still not a cheap screw.) Either way, it's resulted in lots of quippery on Digg, and an amusing response from the dugg site, quartertothree.com. It dealt with the traffic by picking up the referrer field and redirecting straight back to Digg.
The major beneficiary of the whole thing may be the Screw Asylum site, to which several stories linked. It's a home for deformed screws. Someone commented that: "This might actually be the most boring weblog on the entire internet." Which just goes to show har far standards have fallen (or risen) since the great days of Paul's Useless Pages (sadly dead, and not even in The Wayback Machine).
