Archive for August 7th, 2007
Crooked Brains: Some cool collection of licence plates found at Crooked Brains which is not your everyday kind of licence plate. The one that takes all the controversy would be this BMW photo car on the right where a rear view mirror would reveal its initial true hidden meaning. I wonder if these are legal [...]
Annova: A university lecturer yesterday broke the world record for time spent on a rollercoaster – and is still going strong. At midnight yesterday, Richard Rodriguez, 48, beat the previous holder by clocking up nine days and 12 hours, reports the Daily Record.The American said: “I feel I can do it for another week. I [...]
Loved this brilliant commercial by Toyota entitled âItâs a trapâ?. The next time a pretty lady comes up with a broken down Toyota, youâll know what to do. 1 creative Toyota commercial video clip after the jump. [youtube]g8lKDggda9c[/youtube]
Cubicaller: You gotta get yourself one of these. Cubicaller, The Cubicle Doorbell is a civilized way for visitors to announce their arrival at your cubicle entrance. Photo by Cubicaller.
Aring Runs San Pedro's Longest Surviving Taho Business
Inquirer.net: Rosario Martinez, 76, better known as “Aring” to her family and friends, has been running the Jam Taho in San Pedro, Laguna for 24 years now. Among the four existing taho businesses in the town, hers is the longest running and so far the largest distributor of the healthy morning starter. The soybean curd, [...]
My first guest post is up on WorkShak: Even before publishing 20 Things Not to Do Before Starting A Business, I’ve been approached, nearly everyday, by someone anxious to start their own business, but who doesn’t know if they’re actually ready. Read the rest.
Entrepreneurial Mom Leads Exercise Class
The Connecticut Post Online: It was quite a sight: six mothers and their children in strollers striding purposefully across Shelton Road in single file. They’d just finished their warm-ups for the “Stroller Strides” fitness program on the circular cement patio behind the Fairchild Nichols Memorial Library. “We’re going to take it a little easier today [...]
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Seven Legged Lamb, Hold The Pickles!
MSNBC: This 7 legged hermaphrodite lamb in Nwe Zealand with polymelia (a birth defect involving limbs where the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs) would probably be put down by vets after discovering that a part of of its bowel is missing and thereafter was unable to pass feces. Polymelia is [...]
TechEBlog : Will this be the latest fashion for mobile phone geeks? I am utterly out of speech over the absolute awfulness of this. Sure you could be a diehard Motorala fan, but this is going way overboard. Photo by TecheBlog.
Cardboard Cutouts Slow Down Traffic
NBC4: An Ohio man is using cardboard cutouts of his children to slow down motorists. The idea is not new where cardboard cutouts of policeman has been used before. Frustrated by motorists unwillingness to slow down, he puts up these life size cutouts in his yard. His idea has been posted on some law enforcement [...]
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?
StartUp Journal: Should aspiring entrepreneurs pursue M.B.A.s? There’s been a long-brewing debate among academics and entrepreneurial minds over whether business school is worth the hefty price tag for those looking to go into business for themselves. British entrepreneur Anita Roddick wrote recently that entrepreneurs “are people who imagine things as they might be, not as [...]
downloadsquad: If you are a mashup developer, there is no time like the present to make some cash for your creations. Mashups are not only giant part of the Web 2.0 landscape, but a number of companies are recognizing this, and dipping into their corporate pockets to award creativity and development skills. Ok, so it’s [...]
Entrepreneur: Dustin Shindo, 33, and Karl Taft, 34, are in the business of developing clean-energy technologies–and rightly so. After all, they’ve single-handedly powered Hoku Scientific Inc., growing it from a homebased business with credit card debt of more than $100,000 to a public company that projects revenue of $7 million to $10 million for fiscal [...]
Bay City Times: More than 20 years ago, Tony Gutierrez dreamed of making a piece of jewelry that could double as a bar tool. Today, his dreams are coming true. Gutierrez, now lives in Las Vegas, where his invention, the Bottle Ring Opener, has taken off. The Bottle Ring Opener is just what it sounds [...]
Be Successful News: Niche marketing is being used a lot by businesses to help them succeed in the over crowded Internet marketplace. The Internet has allowed for business start up being easy and makes running an online business almost automatic. This means there is even more competition than ever for customers. Here are four ways [...]
Nirvana Musing: Ok, that doesn’t make me gay! A lovely pic that shows the definition of love and friendship in a single photo. It definitely is photoshopped since the hamsters used in the photo are one of the same but it is still a touching photo with a great message from the artist. Photo by [...]
