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The Sharper Image filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, and the inimitable Mr. Johnson took the opportunity to praise its death (which I think is premature, but then I don’t know that much about business):

The company has long hawked substandard, unimaginative products, like a cut-rate Sky Mall without all the whimsy (nor the captive audience).

And let’s not even mention the retail stores, staffed by inept floor walkers and clogged with fake leather cases, ionic air lung scorchers and fake chromed plastic as far as the eye could see. Despite fond memories of fireside flips through its exotic pages, I am not upset to see the company go. It had long outlived its usefulness.