Archive for August 21st, 2007
Billboard Advertisers Are Idiots
From BillboardAdvertisersAreIdiots.com. Here’s an interesting one. Billboard Advertisers are Idiots is an effort to get billboard advertisers to stop “blighting” the landscape with their ads. The whole thing is a little muddly – offending advertisers are listed as “not idiots,” with an image of the board and contact info of the media planner if available. [...]
Morning Sentinel: Walk into Blessed Baby Boutique and enter the world of natural parenting. It is the place to go to learn about cloth diapering, “baby wearing,” breast feeding and environmentally friendly baby products made in Maine. The store at 346 Main St., run and operated by a cooperative of young mothers, sells products made [...]
Mount Kisco Mom Is An Organizational Guru
Lower Hudson Online: Do you know where your child’s school supply list is? How about your neighbor’s phone number? The date of your car’s last oil change? If the answer is no, don’t be embarrassed. Get advice from a guru. Pam Socolow, an organizer entrepreneur and mom of two from Mount Kisco, will give tips [...]
TheDay.com: Tony and Kim Lowe have the sort of entrepreneurial spirit that would tire many people. They see opportunities and they take them, and then look for more. They started Lowe Carting & Recyling about a year ago, and now their bright orange dumpsters with the distinctive “860-442-LOWE” lettering dot the local landscape: at commercial [...]
Springwise: Launched in eleven Minneapolis suburbs this month, Get Home Free is a flat rate, prepaid cab card that gets its holder home safely. Mainly targeted at teenagers and college students, the concept’s initiators are aiming to help out kids who are stuck with car trouble, have been drinking, or whose ride home has fallen [...]
Logitech V470 Cordless Laser Mouse
GadgeTell: The new V470 mouse from Logitech sports Bluetooth 1.2 wireless technology, along with laser tracking. It also comes with the ability to zoom in and out as well as scrolling side-to-side. Additionally, it features a battery life of four months and comes with a battery indicator light. The V470 mouse will be available in [...]
Burial Business For Beloved Cats And Dogs
CNNMoney.com: With spa treatments, day care, designer clothes and even special room-service menus, there’s no shortage of amenities for beloved balls of fur. But when families are forced to say goodbye to Fluffy – the $36-billion pet industry falls flat. About 63 percent of U.S. households own at least one pet, according to the American [...]
MSNBC: Nintendo DS players in Japan can now exercise their facial muscles to have nicer smiles and livelier expressions. A digital camera that comes with the new “Face Training” game fits into the dual-screen, handheld machine to show live video of the player’s own face on the right screen while an animation of a woman’s [...]
Shoppers Avoiding ‘Made In China’
The Associated Press: When Lisa Landry thinks ahead to holiday shopping for her 9-month-old boy, Ari, her concern isn’t which toy is most exciting. It’s which is safest. Already crossed off from her shopping list: Toys made in China. The string of recalls of Chinese-made toys has Landry, of New York City, and legions of [...]
Aging Boomers Lead Startup Growth
Fortune Small Business Magazine: Which Americans are leading the surge in entrepreneurship? Aging boomers. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the ranks of the self-employed aged 55 to 65 rose 33 percent in 2006; the number of self-employed 25- to 35-year-olds fell 2 percent. In a quarterly survey by outplacement firm Challenger Gray [...]
