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This is pretty amazing: "The Book Depository Live is a real-time map of what customers from all around the world are buying on bookdepository.com, an online bookstore that ships for free worldwide." First thought: See, people are still buying books! Second thought: How cool would it be if a site like, say, ASOS did the same thing? [Racked National]