The Get Outdoors blog has some sassy posters who get especially exercised about overpriced, overhyped gear. Here’s a remark about a new North Face coat with a rock-star sticker price:

It’s also a shining example of product design in a self-loving masturbatory vacuum.

Funny how designers are like that, and how they provoke such wrath in everybody else. If any of you work in an industry where your designers aren’t operating in a self-loving masturbatory vacuum, now that’d be news.