tablesaw | Playing House on the Amazon

I was reading a post about Amzon last night, and it struck me that Occam's Razor seems to be cutting across the issue equally well in multiple ways. I started to feel like the Internet is in the middle of an episode of House.

Scene 1: The patient, Amazon.com, is enjoying a pleasant holiday weekend when it realizes it can't feel its GLBT inventory.

Scene 2: Cuddy gets House to take the case via Twitter.

And now we're in scene 3. Everyone's in the conference room staring at the whiteboard of symptoms presenting a differential diagnosis. "It could be this." "But that doesn't explain this." "That's not relevant because of these." "These are explained by this, which is a result of the that."

Unfortunately, at this point the script stalls. We can't send half of the Internet to take Amazon's code to the MRI of Doom and then send the other half to break into Jeff Bezos's house and rifle through is cabinets. The only thing we can be sure of is House saying, "And in the meantime, get him started on PR. We don't want the patient to lose his brand before my replacement copy of Dead Poets Society ships."

So we all just stare at the whiteboard, remembering that everybody lies.