shopping

PowerPot Thermoelectric Generator

Add this one to your post-apocalyptic preparations shopping list.

SupermarketCy – online supermarket in Cyprus

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.

Digital camera size comparison

Game of thrones life-size throne

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 Secret Online Weapons Store That’ll Sell Anyone Anything

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.