Ecommerce bookmarks...

Reviews

• Gizmodo: The Gadgets Weblog (http://www.gizmodo.com/) looks like a good place to browse for things you might want to waste your money on.
  

Buttons, stickers, tchotchkes, and miscellany

• AniMugs (http://www.animugs.net/) are mugs with little animal figures inside, in the bottom.
• Figure Photos, a CafePress store with lots of nice bodypainting photos.
• Donnelly/Colt (http://www.progressivecatalog.com/) sell leftish buttons, posters, and the like. My friends and I ordered a lot from them in college.
• Northern Sun (http://www.northernsun.com/) also sell buttons and posters, but also a lot of other sorts of products-with-messages. They have lots of political stuff, but also lots of stuff that’s just humorous.
• American Science and Surplus (http://www.sciplus.com/) has loads and loads of weird stuff.
• Surplus Sales of Nebraska (http://www.surplussales.com/) has all sorts of stuff. I stumbled across them on a Google search for images of rotary telephones.
• Northern Sun Merchandising (http://www.northernsun.com/) sells lefty, crunchy-granola stickers, posters, magnets, and the like.
• Café Press (http://www.cafepress.com/) lets you design and sell (or buy) your own T-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc. Zazzle (http://www.zazzle.com/) is similar.
• Computer Gear (http://www.computergear.com/) sells T-shirts and similar printed clothing and various novelties, some mildly computer-related (e.g. a plastic wizard designed to sit on your monitor, or a chocolate mouse).
• Kevin Kelly’s “Cool Tools” site doesn’t sell things but recommends things, from books through camping supplies to gadgets.

Health and medicine

• Rip n Roll (http://www.ripnroll.com/) sells condoms. They have variety packs so you can see which kinds you like. (new)
• Skulls Unlimited International bills itself “The World’s Leading Supplier of Osteological Specimens”.

Computers and electronics

• Sunset Systems (http://www.sunsetsystems.com/) sell preconfigured Linux systems (for very reasonable prices)
• System76 (http://www.system76.com/) sell Linux systems — laptops, desktops, and servers. (new)
• Woot.com sells one item a day,until sold out or until 11:59pm. They used to consistently sell at a huge discount, but their deals aren’t as good as they used to be. You still sometimes find really good deals, though.
• eLinuxBox.com (http://www.elinuxbox.com/) is another company that sells preconfigured Linux systems.
• The Refurb Depot (http://refurbdepot.com/) sell late-model refurbished electronics and computer hardware.
• RE-PC (http://www.repc.com/) in Seattle sell recycled and refurbished computers and peripherals
• Egghead (http://www.egghead.com/)
• PC Liquidator (http://www.pcliquidator.com/)
• Tiger Direct (http://www.tigerdirect.com/)
• Dirt Cheap Drives (http://www.dirtcheapdrives.com/)
• mp3playerstore.com sell components for car audio and video. That means they sell small NTSC (and/or PAL) LCD monitors and TVs. They also sell some head-mounted displays that are much cheaper than iGlasses.
• Apex Computers is a few blocks from where I live in Malden.
• PDAmart (http://www.pdamart.com/) have iPAQ accessories, among other things. Watch out — if you give them your email address in order to get a copy of your order, they put you on a marketing list without asking you (but they seem to honour remove requests).
• SupplyNet (http://www.thesupplynet.com/) sell various kinds of cables, particularly cables for connecting mobile phones and PDAs, but also chargers, Ethernet dongles, and suchlike randomness.
• The Laptop Outlet (http://www.laptopoutlet.com/) sell used laptops for fairly cheap.
• Computer Shopper magazine is online at http://shopper.cnet.com/.
• This isn’t an ecommerce site, but it is a good starting place. You can find Linux-compatible hardware at http://justlinuxhardware.com/.
• Deep Surplus (http://www.deepsurplus.com/) sell very cheap networking hardware (patch panels, patch cables, etc.) and other kinds of cables and accessories. I wish I'd known about them when I was wiring the house!
• Small Dog Electronics (http://www.smalldog.com/) sell Mac stuff (including Apple-refurbished Macs).
• OWG MacSales (http://www.macsales.com/) sell Mac upgrades and accessories (and refurbished G3s).

Office supplies

• RubberStamps.net sell customized stamps and labels. They let you upload your own graphics, and/or combine your own custom graphics with text, and say they have “fast shipping”. (I heard about them because they sent me a nice note asking for a link here; I’m about to order from them the address stamp I didn’t get from stampsusa.com — see below.) (new)
• theStampMaker.com are another company that sell stamps. (They have a “Certified woman owned business” logo on their site. I wonder what the certification process is like.)
• Rubber Stamps of America (http://www.stampusa.com/) sell rubber stamps, both art/logo stamps and text stamps (like return-address stamps). They say “allow two weeks for delivery”, so maybe they're not the best choice when you're in a hurry. (And the last time I ordered from them, they didn’t get me the stamp within two weeks, which means I didn’t get it before I moved. Won’t be ordering from them again.)

Music

• deepdiscountcd.com sell CDs for cheap.
• CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/) sells CDs by independent artists. They work directly with the artists, who make a hefty percentage of each sale. Of course, if you want to help the RIAA screw over the artists, undermine the political process, and eliminate individual access to general-purpose computers, you could buy music from one of their labels instead. :-)
• Garage ’A Records (http://www.garage-a-records.com/) sell phonograph needles.
  

Books

• Bookpool (http://www.bookpool.com/) sells technical books.
• BookSense (http://www.booksense.com/) is an ecommerce site that connects you with local independent bookstores who stock the books you’re looking for. Sounds much less evil than Amazon.
• Schoenhofs (http://www.schoenhofs.com/) have a huge selection of foreign-language books (including ESL and Old and Middle English). At a quick glance, a lot of them were surprisingly inexpensive.

Games

• Looney Labs (http://www.looneylabs.com/) produces some of our favourite games, including Fluxx, Aquarius, and the Martian chess pieces used for Zarcana.
• Boardgames.com have a large selection of mostly fairly inexpensive games. I ordered Smart Mouth and Perquackey from them, but they also have more elaborate favourites like Settlers of Catan.
• Game Surplus (http://www.gamesurplus.com/games/)
• Cheapass Games (http://www.cheapass.com/) sell interesting inexpensive games. The ‘production values’ are low (cards/boards printed on cardstock, shipped in envelopes rather than boxes), but if you add a few of your own pieces like dice and pawns, they play just fine. The only one I’ve played so far is Save Doctor Lucky.

Furniture

• Woodstuff (http://www.woodstuff.com/)

Toys and models

• You can buy a plush Cthulhu from ToyVault. There’s also one at The Outsider.
• RealSpace Models (http://www.realspacemodels.com/) sell plastic model kits of spacecraft. (That’s real spacecraft — when their Hubble Space Telescope model comes out I may buy one if it’s not too expensive.)

Cars

• The Kelly Blue Book site at http://www.kellybluebook.com/ isn’t really an ecommerce site, but can be useful when looking for used cars.
• Crutchfield (http://www.crutchfield.com/) sells car stereos (and some other consumer electronics).

Clothing, accessories, and costumes

• For Your Nymphomation (http://www.foryournymphomation.com/) sell toybags, condom cases, discrete vibrator totes, and so forth.
• REI-OUTLET (http://www.rei-outlet.com/) and REI (http://www.rei.com/) sell outdoors wear.
• One Horse Shy (http://www.onehorseshy.com/) is a CaféPress shop with T-shirts and underwear with humorous and/or political designs.
• http://www.labwear.com/ sell embroidered lab coats and scrubs, in case you’ve ever wanted one that says DR. FRANKENSTEIN.
• DreamWeaver Productions (http://www.ibelieveinfairies.com/) sell fairy wings, tails, ears, masks, and wands, and some other similar stuff.
• The Top T-Shirts Countdown Chart at http://www.t-shirtcountdown.com/t-shirts/ is a good way to find amusing, silly, strident, or offensive T-shirts.
• Funny Times sell some cool T-shirts. I particularly like the Black Death World Tour one.
• Café Press (http://www.cafepress.com/) lets you design and sell (or buy) your own T-shirts, mugs, mousepads, etc.
• Computer Gear (http://www.computergear.com/)
• CourierWare, Inc. (http://www.courierwareusa.com/) sell courier bags, which get good recommendations from slashbots for geek-tool carrying ability.