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As most of you know, I spent most of the yesterday in Nicosia, attending the second ever TEDxNicosia event. I know quite a few people who wanted t…
The idea of online supermarket is super old. I remember one of the companies I worked for back in 1999 was trying to pull this off. But for this or that reason, it never happened. I am glad that someone finally succeeded.
P.S.: Too bad they mostly cover Nicosia area currently, but hopefully that’s only an issue of time.
While doing a bit of shopping over at ThinkGeek.com (yeah, my t-shirts keep shrinking), I noticed something totally awesome – a full-size throne from the “Game of thrones” TV series. Here is one of the pictures they have for the product.
As it is obvious from the other picture, the throne is not actually made of real swords, but it does look pretty impressive. The price, however, makes it rather inaffordable for most people – $30,000. There is an interesting bit of discussions in the comments to the product, where someone suggests that it might be cheaper to have one custom-made from real swords, and someone else doing a rough estimate, pointing to the cost of a real thing easily exceeding $300,000.
Even though I won’t be buying of these any time soon, I have to say I pretty impressed with the whole thing.
The Bushmaster M4 is a 3-foot rifle capable of firing thirty 5.56×45mm NATO rounds, and used by spec ops forces throughout Afghanistan. It’s a serious weapon. But in the Internet’s darkest black market, it’s all yours. Who needs a background check? Nobody.
The Armory began as an offshoot of The Silk Road, notable as the Internet’s foremost open drug bazaar, where anything from heroin and meth to Vicodin and pot can be picked out and purchased like a criminal Amazon.com. It’s virtually impossible to trace, and entirely anonymous. But apparently guns were a little too hot for The Silk Road’s admins, who broke the site off from the main narcotics carnival. Now guns, ammo, explosives, and more have their own shadowy home online, far from the piles of Dutch coke and American meth. But the same rules apply: with nothing more than money and a little online savoir faire, you can buy extremely powerful, deadly weapons—Glocks, Berettas, PPKs, AK-47s, Bushmaster rifles, even a grenade—in secret, shipped anywhere in the world.
Here is a little something for the next time you’ll decide to upgrade your wardrobe.
I hate shopping. But when I do go, this is my favorite department.
I know I am biased when I talk about Apple. I am a Google fan-boy and an Open Source advocate. Apple doesn’t go well with it. But even I’ve been heard giving the credit where it’s due. In the same way, I’ve been heard criticizing Google at times. Now, it’s Apple time. Big time.
People were scared of online shopping back in 1998. Companies were slow to adopt it, worrying about fraud and such. But these days, in March of 2012, online shopping is a done deal pretty much. Everybody who needs it, has it. Everybody knows how to use it. And so on and so forth.
One would assume, Apple, being one of the leading technology companies, would be sitting tightly on the bandwagon. And they do. A bit. If you are in the USA. Or maybe a few other countries. But if you are in Cyprus, which is, by the way, a member of the European Union, here’s how you do online shopping with Apple.
You donwload a PDF file, print it out, fill the form, and fax (!!!) it to Apple. And then you wait… Really Apple, fax? What happened to online purchasing? After all, there are only $99 and $299 options there. It’s not like I’m buying an airplane. #FAIL
The other day I got into an interesting discussion with dad about laptops. Specifically, about expensive laptops. Using Linux, enjoying a greater utilization of any resource, and being constantly broke, I am not very versed in expensive hardware, laptop or not. So I did a couple of Google searches to educate myself. Here is a good lineup of the world’s most expensive laptops for the year of 2011:
The summer is over and the time for big game releases is coming soon. Coupled with the upcoming Christmas holidays and long, dark, winter evenings, it is a good time to think of the next game you will buy for you Playstation, Xbox or PC. Given that you won’t probably limit yourself to the only title, I want to see which game is your priority. Feel free to use comments for sharing your reasons and other games that haven’t made the poll.
Loading ...Watching large businesses can often be entertaining, especially here, in Cyprus, where they seem to think that nobody outside the island will know what they do. Fresh are the memories of Woolworths malls re-branding to Ermes, and then to Debenhams, within the same year or so. And here comes the new story of the recently opened Tiffany Shopping Mall in Limassol. Apparently, the name conflict was enough for an American Tiffany & Co. to start legal proceedings. Shortly after that, Tiffany Shopping Mall was renamed to “My Mall”.
Firstly, how difficult is it to Google the name before opening the biggest store in town? I guess, that’s asking too much.
Secondly … My Mall? Really? The only worse name that I can come up with is iMall. Yes, that bad. Even “The Mall” is better.