mini-moan: universally shite bric-a-brac

Just because there is a slot, it doesn't mean you can stick something in there are words I often hear and never is this more true than for the USB ports on your computer.
Universal Serial Bus is one of the greatest parts of modern computing if you don't remember faffing around with Parallel Port, Serial Ports, Joystick Ports and a whole slew of proprietary ports you are lucky because now you can connect phones, hard drives, flash drives and many other gadgets by just sticking that all familiar plug in that all familiar hole.

But with great power comes great responsibility and now that power is used to power (do you see what I did there) all manner of useless crap that people foolishly buy. Most of these sales of USB powered junk ultimately end up as gifts and as a result just ruin somebody's birthday, wedding, Christmas, Bar Mitzvah, <Insert Occassion Here>. I mean nobody would buy a USB powered coffee mug warmer, or Homer Simpson desk lamp for themselves would they?
I own one of the above items :(

Please, if everybody stopped buying this junk then maybe our resources (and sanity) wouldn't be depleted so quickly in the pursuit of profiteering of the misery off others.

http://gearcrave.com/2007-11-09/top-10-most-useless-usb-gadgets-of-all-time/