Archive for August 3rd, 2007
Drinking With Coworkers Is Dangerous
Office Humor: Having a drink with your coworkers may seem harmless enough, but be careful not to overdo it. Remember, you’ve got to work with the people who are watching you make a fool of yourself. [youtube]61etl1LdUvo[/youtube] Video by Office Humor.
Consumerist: Amazingly, AMC doesn’t carry nickels. What is this business thinking? The ticket was $9 and I had $8 and some change to get rid of. So I paid with 3 quarters and 3 dimes which would have had me with a nickel change. The ticket seller told me they don’t carry nickels and if [...]
Consumerist: Looks like Intel has some explaining to do after this idiotic advertisement. Intel’s intent of our ad titled “Multiply Computing Performance and Maximize the Power of Your Employees” was to convey the performance capabilities of our processors through the visual metaphor of a sprinter. We have used the visual of sprinters in the past [...]
Boiling Cats Alive For Restaurants
Weird Asian News: Recently some restaurants in Guangdong, China, have been promoting a popular dish called âwater boiled live catâ?. The way the restaurants kill the cats is very cruel and inhumane. One of the chefs even says âthe more torture the cats receive, the better they taste.â? They use a bat and beat the [...]
Flickr: Businesses are like babies. They just keep getting bigger and bigger! Photo by The Modern.
Even The Elderly Get Allowance
Reuters: A Sicilian mother took away her 61-year-old son’s house keys, cut off his allowance and hauled him to the police station because he stayed out late. Tired of her son’s misbehavior, the retiree in the central Sicilian city of Caltagirone turned to the police to “convince this blockhead” to behave properly, La Sicilia, one [...]
All Things Frugal: Working from home is a great way to stay home with your kids while still supplementing the family’s income. On the flipside, it can be challenging to be mother and employee at the same time. Your stress level will rise quickly when you have deadlines to keep or phone calls to make [...]
Orlando Sentinel: Noel Goldman may have finally succeeded by making sure your undergarments stay where they belong. The inventor, entrepreneur and stay-at-home mom has created Strap Tamers, a pin-and-clip combo that answers an old problem: How to keep bra straps from creeping out from underneath sleeveless shirts. “When I was younger, I had had several [...]
10 Tips For Doing Productive Web Work With Kids In The House
Web Worker Daily: Not all web workers are the hip, trendy, just-out-of college types — quite a few of us have rugrats running around, making noise, spilling juice and demanding attention at the same time as our email and IM demand that same attention. We’ve written before on how to manage kids in the home [...]
Ouch My Toe: On 19 July a contest titled âCan you put words into my mouth?â? was announced on Ouchmytoe.com. In spite of the measly prize money (Rs 500)â¦the responses have overshot the condition I had set by 40% and the post ended up with 42 comments. Makes me wonder if I should start contributing [...]
Working at Home Resolves Many Issues
The following is a guest post by Lisa Di Clemente. Society’s ideals are changing. Collectively we are becoming a community of thinkers instead of doers. Our generation glorifies children instead of believing they should be “seen and not heard”. Mothers are being honored for their role in the household. Women aren’t fighting for their rights, [...]
Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret
Lifehacker: Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. I had to ask Seinfeld if he had any tips for a young comic. He said the way to be [...]
eCommerce-Guide.com: eBay Performance! Selling Success With Market Research & Product Sourcing” is a clear, readable, almost fool-proof guide to discovering what sells on eBay, obtaining viable product and selling it in an effective way. The authors are experts in their fields: Robin Cowie is president of WorldWidebrands, for years an eBay licensed provider of wholesale [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: If you think bingo’s strictly for senior citizens, think again. In Los Angeles, playing a game of Blackout is on the to-do list of hip, trendy Angelenos. And there’s good reason why: The eight establishments mentioned here mix a friendly game of bingo with beer, music, cabaret and drag queens. Several of the [...]
Inc.: With money he had saved selling knives and teaching tennis, Brian Taylor hired a team of flavor specialists to create the 14 types of all-natural popcorn seasonings his company now offers. The seasonings are currently in three-quarters of movie theaters and 70 percent of grocery stores nationwide. Taylor started out by himself selling to [...]
Test Your Knowledge of Online Scams
Associated Press: Think you’re smart at recognizing online scams? Take a quiz to find out. McAfee Inc.’s SiteAdvisor service has created a 10-question test to see whether you can spot “phishing” attempts to steal passwords and other personal information by mimicking popular Web sites such as eBay Inc.’s PayPal and News Corp.’s MySpace. In eight [...]
