William Doyle Galleries
One of the grandest of auction houses, with thumbnails of just about anything soon to come up for sale, this is a great way to learn about art and design. Also, why buy reproductions from the Museum Store or The Pottery Barn when you can buy real antiques here for less money?
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? William Doyle Galleries
Ratings Coolness factor:7 Credibility:9 Look:9 Information Depth:8
UBid Auctions
Consumer goods being auctioned not by previous buyers by wholesalers and manufacturers. Kinda gimmicky, kinda tacky, but still worth a look-see, especially for stuff that's recently discontinued or out of season.
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? UBid
Ratings Coolness factor:2 Credibility:7 Look:3 Information Depth:5
Internet Auction List - Largest Auction Directory
Astonishingly comprehensive index of auction sites. So what are you still here for? Go already!
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Directory
Whose Site is it? USA Web
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:9 Look:6 Information Depth:10
Books, Posters, etc.
Reed&Wright
Looking for something trustworthy, interesting, unique? Then you need to buy one of our posters. Posters are too big? Then buy a pocket guide. Come on; you'll like it and we need the money.
Review Date: 6/22/02 Site Type:Reference Index
Whose Site is it? "Reed & Wright, publishers and providers of structured data"
Ratings Coolness factor:Why, infinite, of course. Credibility:9 Look:4 Information Depth:6
Heavy Duty Gear
Harbor Freight Tools
The Marine Web
Comprehensive links and info on boat stuff. Of course the only boat I've spent lot's of time on is the Staten Island Ferry, so what do I know?
Review Date: 6/12/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? The Marine Web
Ratings Coolness factor:3 Credibility:8 Look:4 Information Depth:9
Pretty Things
Geezer.com
Crafts designed and made by the elderly. As the name suggests, they are cooler and more together than one would think. Variety is sorta hodgepodge but quality looks good.
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? Experience Works with the US Gov. Departments of Agriculture and Labor
Ratings Coolness factor:5 Credibility:8 Look:6 Information Depth:4
Kate's Paper Emporium
The grand luxe emporium for buying paper and paper products. Crane's has nothing on these folks, with hundreds of kinds of paper and paper equivalents from bamboo and hand-printed Italian to diffraction gratings and decorative foils. If you've got the money and their elegant style is what you're looking for then this is probably the end of your search.
Review Date: 6/3/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? Kate's Paperie
Ratings Coolness factor:7 Credibility:8 Look:6 Information Depth:8
Pearl River Department Store
One stop shopping for Chinese oriented housewares, fabric, munchies, etc. I've been shopping here since the mid-eighties and they just keep getting better.
Review Date: 6/3/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? Pearl River
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:10 Look:8 Information Depth:8
Surplus
American Science and Surplus
Gears and motors, medical charts and paper lace doilys, SciPlus sells it. Mostly featuring mechanical, electrical, and scientific equipment (they used to have a close partnership with Edmund Scientific), these folks also get military surplus, decorative papers, and pretty much anything else that they can get cheap and think is cool. A handcarved wooden birdhouse for three dollars? Certainly. The parts to turn it into a jet-powered robot aircraft? Possibly.
Review Date: 6/22/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? AmSci
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:10 Look:8 Information Depth:6
Harbor Freight Tools
Surplus and off-brand with broad shoulders. The Home Depot of surplus, with routers, greenhouses, but also funkier items like $180 cast iron stoves. Good to superb prices, solid to terrible quality. Check the brands, read the fine print, and don't expect that $40 Pakistani drill to work or look just like a Delta.
Review Date: 6/12/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? Harbor Freight
Ratings Coolness factor:10 Credibility:7 Look:7 Information Depth:7
Materials for the Arts
Work for a New York area non-profit? Then run don't walk and get registered with these folks, who can provide you with free stuff with a variety you just will not believe. Furniture (wooden or metal ), fabric, office supplies, computers, books (did I mention that it's all free?) and so on.
Review Date: 5/12/02 Site Type:Organization
Whose Site is it? New York City Department of Sanitation
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:10 Look:9 Information Depth:10
Toys for Boys
Archie McPhee
Home of the Hawaiian Elvis action figure with kung fu grip, Archie McPhee is the novelty store of your dreams. They sell rubber chickens, sure, and they do have *great* rubber chickens, but who else has Nunzilla? (Set of two for $6.95.)
Review Date: 6/22/02 Site Type:Vendor
Whose Site is it? A bunch of Erisians in Seattle
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:9 Look:9 Information Depth:8
Bihn Bags for Laptops
Beautifully made bags for laptops and such, optimized (of course) for Macintoshes. Great style, lifetime guarantee, viable selection, American made. And with product names like Snake Charmer and Freudian Slip, Bihn isn't shy about their distinctiveness.
Review Date: 6/12/02 Site Type:Vendor
Whose Site is it? Tom Bihn
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:9 Look:9 Information Depth:8
By The Blade Sword Merchants
Eastern-style swords for sale at reasonable prices. If this is what you want, they've got it, from highly ornamented and fastidiously authentic wakizushi with actual buffalo hide to sword canes clearly meant for your neighborhood drug dealer wanting to stay armed but low-profile.
Review Date: 6/11/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? By The Blade
Ratings Coolness factor:3 Credibility:4 Look:6 Information Depth:5
Search Results-CD-ROM Business cards
If you want to get some of those cool business cards we've all seen that are actually little CD-ROMS this is the search I did that got the best results.
Review Date: 6/12/02 Site Type:Compilation
Whose Site is it? Yahoo
Ratings Coolness factor:9 Credibility:8 Look:4 Information Depth:8
Easybuy2000
Gadgets for the gotta-have-it crowd. With a small but select product list including some that are *ahem* questionable (cable signal decoders, satellite reception "enhancers") they are nonetheless a good place to find out and maybe even buy the very latest thing in electronic gadget cool.
Review Date: 5/13/02 Site Type:Marketplace
Whose Site is it? Easybuy
Ratings Coolness factor:6 Credibility:8 Look:8 Information Depth:7
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