Dark Amazon

You know how most of the energy and matter that exists is dark?

You could look it up.

Or just look at the graphic above if you don't have the time.

Anyhow, yesterday when my crack research team was doing the heavy lifting for the post earlier today on my new Official Wrist Rest, they couldn't find the darn flower power one on Amazon no matter how hard they tried.

I told them to put the item number (WR308DS) into Google (honestly, why I pay them the king's ransom-equivalent wages I do I have no earthly idea) and voilà, there was the precise item they were looking for — at Amazon!

So that's when the penny dropped and I realized that Amazon, like the universe, is mostly invisible and intangible, revealing itself only indirectly, like via a Google search.

This is similar to the inability of the New York Times' own search engine to unearth articles that appear this very day, while a simple Google search using the author and the name of someone in the article invariably brings up the desired story first among the results in a New York yoctosecond.

Dark Times, I guess.