[Leaning Right]

Fake eclipse glasses - obviously - can cause a person great harm. I'm betting that none of these fakes were made in the U.S. So I'll call this yet another "benefit" of free trade.

[libstripper]

Just for anyone planning t photograph the eclipse:

I have a Panasonic Lumix FZ300 camera with a 52 mm filer ring and bought a solar filter for it. That filter blocks all but .001% of the sunlight. I’ve shot three pictures of the sun through that filter with the camera extended to full 40x zoom. The sun appears as a reddish golden orb. I have be very careful with the filter because it’s actually a piece of very thin metal foil, as are many of the other astronomical filters used for solar observation. It cost a little over $52.00

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I will just use my welding hoods I used when I was a welder. Not the glasses for gas welding, the stick welding hoods.

[DouglasKC]

Bought mine months ago...got good ones cheap.

[bgill]

Can’t be bothered with a shadow so will be saving my money.

[Billthedrill]

Amazon did leave us "high and dry" by waiting until one week before the event to tell us that the glasses we purchased two months ago (and which, by the way, are properly marked) aren't recommended for use. Amazon didn't really make a lot of friends by waiting that long and being unable to provide replacements, which at this stage turn out to be sort of difficult to get. There's more than just darkness to judge these by - the problem is transmitted UV light that you don't see. Better to miss the thing than to cause irreparable retinal damage.

That said, the pinhole-in-a-shoebox actually does work. And looking directly at the totality doesn't hurt. Should be an interesting experience and a massively congested drive in most places. Oh, well...