I was looking for some superstrong magnets for an art project last night and ended up spending a very long time looking at extremely charming line drawings of reticles, anemometers, and random medical supplies. They carry toys, robot parts, art supplies, and on and on.
The product descriptions are bizarre and sometimes brilliant. Everthing is factory surplus, so most of it is supercheap.
Brigade Quartermasters was my favorite catalog for a long time because where else can you browse for blowguns, but AS&S is so fuckin' cool it just kicked BQ off the list completely. I'm going to subscribe to the print copy and consult it for all my Christmas purchases this year. Then I'm going to leave it on the back of my toilet, and if you come to my house and have to pee you'll start flipping idly through it for just a second, but you'll get sucked in looking at all the weird neat stuff, and next thing you know you've been in there looking at it for kind of a long time, for sure way longer than it should have taken you to do your business and check your hair or makeup and glance through my medicine cabinet, so you'll put it back and make a big show of washing your hands before you come out into the living room and scan everyone's faces to see if they all have that "I know what YOU'VE been doing" look in their eyes.
Ha! Just kidding. You would never do that. And even if you did no one would notice because everyone is too busy wondering if everyone else noticed the stupid thing they just did. But it really is an interesting catalog.