While shopping for phones earlier this year, I checked out the T-Mobile store with my brother to get a family plan. Lo-and-behold, they offered the buy-one-get-one-free deal on the Samsung Galaxy S, an Android phone that is, if anything, selling like hotcakes. In the end, we didn't get T-Mobiles because of the higher phone costs and instead settled for an Evo across the street.

Still, it's not just phones that aren't selling that get promotional gimmicks like rebates and buy-one-get-one-frees. I bet the article writer just saw these two things and tried to put them together by the deadline. Don't read into this too deeply.

As a college student, I can testify that an investment in the chair can pay off. Sure, there's teachers and books to spend. However, chairs, chalkboards, smartboards, and other classroom amenities play a part too. The chairs attached to a small writing pad (like the one linked to) are just horrible for a lecture or class. You can fit no more than a small notebook on the surface: want to get out your other notebook, a handout, or your laptop, and take a look at both at the same time? Tough luck! Of course, we shouldn't treat students like royalty and indulge in $800 Aeron chairs, and investment in teachers would help. But we should give them a practical environment where they can sit comfortably, take notes, and make the classroom an effective learning _environment_. After all, that's why people study in their libraries, not their rooms.