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Another Store You Made
I'm totally stealing an idea from Jason Kottke here (let's call it a meme!), but it's kinda neat:

Whenever I link to something at Amazon on kottke.org, there's an affiliate code associated with the link. When I log into my account, I can access a listing of what people bought1. The interesting bit is that everything someone buys after clicking through to Amazon counts and is listed, even items I didn't link to directly. These purchased-but-unlinked-to items form a sort of store created by kottke.org readers of their own accord.

I have about 1/1000000th the readership of Kottke, but I do have an Amazon affiliate account (it doesn't even come close to helping pay for the site, but it does feed my book/movie/music/video game addictions). Of course, I don't sell nearly as much stuff either, but here are a few things sold that haven't been directly linked:

• The Art of Looking in Hitchcock's Rear Window and a bunch of other stuff (some directly linked) that I assume was inspired by my Rear Window essay.
• The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays - This book apparently begins with this line: "There is only one really serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide." Albert Camus isn't messing around here, I guess.
• Passing Afternoon and Such Great Heights by Iron & Wine (mp3) - These songs sound exactly like something I would hear on Filmspotting.
• Defiance - Interesting more because this was someone purchasing the Video On Demand version of the film, rather than a DVD/BD. I didn't think anyone did that.
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - I feel like this is something I would have linked somewhere, but it didn't convert as a link (i.e. someone entered Amazon via a different link and then bought this). I've only read a few comic books in my time, but this was one I've always wanted to check out...
• The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung - Someone prying open their third eye?
• Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons - I've always wanted to read these books, but I've read a few other Simmons books and never really cared for them...
• Audio Technica AT4040 Condenser Microphone - Someone doing some heavy duty broadcasting/recording? Who ever you are, I love you (good referral fee on this one!)

And that about covers the unexpected stuff. I do get lots of Asimov orders as well as Christmas movie orders, but those are popular sections of the site...

This post is part of the Kaedrin Weblog. It's been categorized under Administration , Computers & Internet and was originally published in November 2009.

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