Build a Better Shopping Cart: A Few Suggestions for Online Retailers

It's also loaded with profanity and sick, sick humor. This is fine by us, but we understand some readers are of a more sensitive constitution. Because of that--and because we're not The Huffington Post -- we're going to force you to go to TheOatmeal.com to read this bit of marketing genius.

Profanity and internet-expiration dates aside, the poster -- which takes aim at hand-crafted CAPTCHA code, Session Expired pages and annoying surveys -- should be required reading for anyone entering the online retail space with an eye toward not thoroughly frustrating a consumer thisclose to spending hard-earned dollars on your site.